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The landslide reelection of President Ronald Reagan in 1984
prompted political analysts to consider the possibility of a
national realignment of the electorate toward the Republican party.
The 1986 elections, however, proved any predictions of a national
realignment to be premature. A major shift in voting patterns had
not taken place-except in the Mountain West, where a realignment
was already in place. Once second only to the southern states in
Democratic attachments, these western states (Arizona, Colorado,
Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming) now compose
the most Republican region in the nation. The contributors to this
volume assert that this substantial change in electoral patterns,
which has spanned nearly forty years, resulted not from a westward
migration but from a widespread conversion among those who are born
and remain in the region. In analyzing this realignment, these
writers-some of the nation's best electoral scholars-provide
historical and contemporary overviews and assess the important
issues not only for voters but also for party organizations and
members of Congress. Their focus in The Politics of Realignment,
however, is on the Mountain West's role in contemporary American
politics. The authors present a comprehensive investigation into
the meaning of this regional realignment for national politics.
The landslide reelection of President Ronald Reagan in 1984
prompted political analysts to consider the possibility of a
national realignment of the electorate toward the Republican party.
The 1986 elections, however, proved any predictions of a national
realignment to be premature. A major shift in voting patterns had
not taken place-except in the Mountain West, where a realignment
was already in place. Once second only to the southern states in
Democratic attachments, these western states (Arizona, Colorado,
Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming) now compose
the most Republican region in the nation. The contributors to this
volume assert that this substantial change in electoral patterns,
which has spanned nearly forty years, resulted not from a westward
migration but from a widespread conversion among those who are born
and remain in the region. In analyzing this realignment, these
writers-some of the nation's best electoral scholars-provide
historical and contemporary overviews and assess the important
issues not only for voters but also for party organizations and
members of Congress. Their focus in The Politics of Realignment,
however, is on the Mountain West's role in contemporary American
politics. The authors present a comprehensive investigation into
the meaning of this regional realignment for national politics.
This book presents a comprehensive theory of the ethics and
political philosophy of public health surveillance based on
reciprocal obligations among surveillers, those under surveillance,
and others potentially affected by surveillance practices. Public
health surveillance aims to identify emerging health trends,
population health trends, treatment efficacy, and methods of health
promotion--all apparently laudatory goals. Nonetheless, as with
anti-terrorism surveillance, public health surveillance raises
complex questions about privacy, political liberty, and justice
both of and in data use. Individuals and groups can be chilled in
their personal lives, stigmatized or threatened, and used for the
benefit of others when health information is wrongfully collected
or used. Transparency and openness about data use, public
involvement in decisions, and just distribution of the benefits of
surveillance are core elements in the justification of surveillance
practices. Understanding health surveillance practices, the
concerns it raises, and how to respond to them is critical not only
to ethical and trustworthy but also to publicly acceptable and
ultimately sustainable surveillance practices. The book is of
interest to scholars and practitioners of the ethics and politics
of public health, bioethics, privacy and data technology, and
health policy. These issues are ever more pressing in pandemic
times, where misinformation can travel quickly and suspicions about
disease spread, treatment efficacy, and vaccine safety can have
devastating public health effects.
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