A tale of two parties: living amongst Democrats and Republicans since 1952

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Stability and Change in the American Polity -- The Case for Stability -- The Case for Change Within My Lifetime -- The Origin of American Political Parties -- Social and Party Changes During the Current Party System -- Stability and Changes in Political Parties and Presidential Voting -- Conclusion: A Tale Informed by Personal Experience -- Notes -- 2 Partisan Identities -- Politics and Sports -- Social Identity Theory and Sports Partisans -- Social Identity Theory and Political Partisans -- Party Identity in the United States Since 1952 -- Emotions in Social Identities -- Reminiscing and Summarizing -- Notes -- 3 Party Organization and Social Groupings -- The Invisible and Ineffective National Party Committees -- RNC Advice, 2013, and Trump Campaign, 2016 -- Trump Campaign in 2020 -- Social Groupings -- Two Methods of Analyzing Party Support -- Summarizing Group Appeal and Base Concentration -- Equal Group Appeal -- Party Base Concentration -- Group Appeal, Base Concentration, and Party Politics -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Region: Once Primary, Now Secondary -- Population Changes Across Regions -- Equal Group Appeal Across Regions -- Party Base Concentration Across Regions -- Equal Appeal and Base Concentration Across Regions Since 1952 -- Reminiscing, and Summarizing -- Notes -- 5 Income: Slight, Steady, and Increasing Difference -- Equal Group Appeal by Income -- Party Base Concentration by Income -- Equal Appeal and Base Concentration by Income Since 1952 -- Reminiscing, and Summarizing -- Notes -- 6 Urbanization: Shifting Effects -- Changes in Urban-Rural Population Distribution, 1950-2018 -- Changes in Urbanization, 1952-2018.

"Different groups of Americans have different interests in politics. The Democratic and Republican parties are supposed to aggregate and articulate this interest in government after campaigning in elections. Many observers believe that both parties performed their interest aggregation and articulation functions better in the past than in the present. A Tale of Two Parties: Living Amongst Democrats and Republicans Since 1952 tackles the following objectives: How the United States society has changed over the last six decades in terms of occupation, education, regional growth, urbanization, religion, ethnicity, and ideology; Summarize how the Democratic and Republican parties have shifted over time in representing these social groups-thus differing in aggregating their interests; To indicate how the two major U.S. parties have articulated the political interests of their social bases in congressional voting in the House of Representatives over time; Assess the prospects for interest aggregation and articulation by governments over the next decade. A Tale of Two Parties: Living Amongst Democrats and Republicans Since 1952 will have a wide and enthusiastic readership among political scientists and researchers of American politics, campaigns and elections, and voting and elections"--

Stability and change in the American polity -- Partisan identities -- Party organization and social groupings -- Region : once primary, now secondary -- Income : slight, steady, and increasing difference -- Urbanization : shifting effects -- Education : incremental reversal -- Religion : important and in flux -- Ethnicity : dwindling whites -- Ideology : partisan cause or partisan effect? -- Reviewing the survey data -- Baneful effects -- Donald Trump's last hurrah.