Midterms and Mandates : : Electoral Reassessment of Presidents and Parties /

Midterms and Mandates : : Electoral Reassessment of Presidents and Parties / / ed. by Patrick Andelic.

Analyses how midterm elections have shaped the American presidencyProvides an analysis of a fundamental yet little-studied aspect of the American political systemCombines insights from history and from political science by featuring research grounded in both disciplinesShowcases the work of emerging...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
MitwirkendeR:
Andelic, Patrick,
Azari, Julia R.,
Eastwood, Mark,
Hilliard, Nadia,
Johnson, Richard,
Johnstone, Andrew,
Mason, Robert,
McLay, Mark,
Morgan, Iwan,
Rudalevige, Andrew,
Ryan-Hume, Joe,
Thelen, Sarah,
Tiplady, Sarah,
HerausgeberIn:
Andelic, Patrick,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:New Perspectives on the American Presidency : NPAP
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 10 B/W tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Preface: Why Midterms Matter
  • Introduction: Midterms and Mandates, Presidents and Parties
  • Part One. Midterm Elections in Institutional Context
  • 1 Presidents and Midterm Loss
  • 2 From Election to Re-election: The Electoral Politics of Presidency and Party, 1960–2012
  • 3 Accountability Regimes, Partisanship and Midterm Mandates: Midterms in Contemporary America
  • Part Two. Testing the New Deal Coalition
  • 4 Swing Time: The New Deal Midterms of 1934 and 1938
  • 5 The Domestic Politics of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 1942 Midterm Elections
  • 6 Midterm Elections, the Republican Party, and the Challenge to New Deal Liberalism, 1946–1958
  • 7 ‘Peace need not be poison at the polls’: John F. Kennedy and the Challenge of the Right in the 1962 Midterms
  • Part Three: The Republican Resurgence
  • 8 War on Poverty Stalled, Nixon Recalled: Republican Revival and the 1966 Midterm Elections
  • 9 ‘The power of their votes’: Richard Nixon, the Silent Majority, and the 1970 Midterm Elections
  • 10 ‘Democrats dominate’: The Democratic Party in Congress and the Midterms of 1974 and 1978
  • 11 The Favourite Son’s Favourites: Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Home- State Effect in the 1982 Midterm Elections
  • 12 The 1986 Midterms: The End of the Reagan Revolution?
  • Index

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