Hollow Mandates: American Public Opinion and the Conservative Shift

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Conservative Shift in American Politics -- Notes -- 2 Defining Conservatism in the United States -- Conservative Issue-Positions -- Summary -- 3 Changing Campaign Rhetoric -- Democratic Nomination Addresses -- Democratic Platforms -- Republican Nomination Addresses -- Republican Platforms -- Summary -- Notes -- 4 Changes in Policy -- The Carter Years -- The Reagan Years -- Summary -- Notes -- 5 Issue Preferences and Ideological Symbols -- The Issue Dimensions -- The Tests: An Overview -- The Late 1960s: A Cultural Backlash? -- The Late 1970s: Institutional Malaise? -- The Reagan Years: A Sweeping Mandate? -- Symbolic Conservatism -- Summary -- Notes -- 6 Assessments of the Political Parties -- Dimensions of Partisan Assessments -- Summary -- Notes -- 7 Generational Change and the Conservative Shift -- Defining the Age Cohorts -- A Cohort Analysis of the Conservative Shift -- Summary -- Notes -- 8 The Rise of De Facto Conservatism -- Ideological Versus De Facto Conservatism -- Summary -- Notes -- 9 Conclusion: Leading with the Right -- The Theory of Managerial Conservatism -- The Two-Tiered Conservative Shift -- The Anglo-American Conservative Shift -- Future Directions -- Notes -- Appendix A: Survey Questions and Figures -- Appendix B: Tables of Partisan Assessments by Generational Cohort -- Appendix C: Description of Partisan Assessments -- References -- About the Book and Author -- Index.

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Hollow mandates: American public opinion and the conservative shift

Gold, Howard J

Gold, Howard J

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When Ronald Reagan was elected president, many political observers argued that the election of a conservative Republican signaled a fundamental change in the political preferences of Americans - that the electorate had tired of the old Democratic liberalism and had embraced the new conservative approach. A new era in American politics had begun. Howard Gold challenges this and other assumptions about the nature of the conservative shift as reflected by the political preferences of the American electorate. Examining American public opinion from the Johnson administration through the Reagan years, Gold uncovers the true nature of American public opinion, showing that, in fact, the American public has not embraced a conservative ideology. He goes on to evaluate the mechanisms of change in American politics and to discuss the implications of his findings for the future of electoral politics in America.

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