Author: Joel H. SilbeyPublisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Political Ideology and Voting Behavior in the Age of Jackson
Author: Joel H. SilbeyPublisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Political Ideology and Voting Behavior in the Age of Jackson
Author: Joel II. SilbeyThe Party Period and Public Policy
Author: Richard L. McCormickPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0195047842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
These boldly argued essays describe and analyze key developments in American politics and government in an era when political parties commanded mass loyalties and wielded unprecedented power over government affairs. McCormick follows the major parties from their emergence in the 1820s and 1830s to their transformation almost a century later, discussing the nature of governance, clarifying economic policies of promotion, distribution, and (later) regulation that characterized government functions at every level, and sorting out the complex relationships between politics and policy during the "party period."
The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy
Author: Lee BensonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400867266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Jacksonian Democracy has become almost a commonplace in American history. But in this penetrating analysis of one state-its voting cycles, party makeup, and social, ethnic, and religious patterns-Lee Benson shows that the concept bears little or no relation to New York history during the Jacksonian period. New York voters between 1816 and 1844 did not follow the traditional distinctions between Whigs and Democrats. Ethnic and religious ties were stronger social forces than income, occupation, and environment. Mr. Benson's examination suggests a new theory of American voting behavior and a reconsideration of other local studies during this period. Originally published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party
Author: Michael F. HoltPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199830894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
Here, Michael F. Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written. He offers a panoramic account of the tumultuous antebellum period, a time when a flurry of parties and larger-than-life politicians--Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren, and Henry Clay--struggled for control as the U.S. inched towards secession. It was an era when Americans were passionately involved in politics, when local concerns drove national policy, and when momentous political events--like the Annexation of Texas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act--rocked the country. Amid this contentious political activity, the Whig Party continuously strove to unite North and South, emerging as the nation's last great hope to prevent secession.
Identity Politics in Jacksonian Ohio
Author: Stephen FoxPublisher:
ISBN: 9781792915796
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Twenty-first century politicians in the United States doggedly pur-sue the votes of minorities, college-educated suburban women and/or white men. But they don't stop there, and the strategy isn't novel. Its origin lies in the Second Party System of the Jacksonian Era. The classic view of 'Jacksonian Democracy' holds that Democratic politicians were of modest means and appealed to voters like themselves; Whig politicians were rich and catered to wealthy constituents. Such accounts also focus on the character and actions of political leaders, especially Andrew Jackson and his war on the Bank of the United States. With the exception of a few studies, however, little attention is paid to ordinary voters. Now, through a systematic analysis of voter choice in Ohio, Identity Politics adds another state to the idea first proposed in New York by historian Lee Benson: Democrats and Whigs relied on religion, ethnicity, nativity, the prejudices of Northerners and Southerners, even the value of 'party' as the bases of their political behavior. Cultural solidarity, not passing issues, determined their choices. In that respect, Jacksonian voters in Ohio foretold the future of American politics.
Ideology and Power in the Age of Jackson
Author: Edwin Charles RozwencPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior
Author: Jan E. LeighleyPublisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN: 0199604517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are the essential guide to the study of American political life in the 21st Century. With engaging contributions from the major figures in the field The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior provides the key point of reference for anyone working in American Politics today
The Reasoning Voter
Author: Samuel L. PopkinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022677287X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The Reasoning Voter is an insider's look at campaigns, candidates, media, and voters that convincingly argues that voters make informed logical choices. Samuel L. Popkin analyzes three primary campaigns—Carter in 1976; Bush and Reagan in 1980; and Hart, Mondale, and Jackson in 1984—to arrive at a new model of the way voters sort through commercials and sound bites to choose a candidate. Drawing on insights from economics and cognitive psychology, he convincingly demonstrates that, as trivial as campaigns often appear, they provide voters with a surprising amount of information on a candidate's views and skills. For all their shortcomings, campaigns do matter. "Professor Popkin has brought V.O. Key's contention that voters are rational into the media age. This book is a useful rebuttal to the cynical view that politics is a wholly contrived business, in which unscrupulous operatives manipulate the emotions of distrustful but gullible citizens. The reality, he shows, is both more complex and more hopeful than that."—David S. Broder, The Washington Post
Jacksonian America
Author: Edward PessenPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780252012372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A perennial choice for courses on antebellum America, Jacksonian America continues to be a popular classroom text with scholars of the period, even among those who bridle at Pessen's iconoclastic views of Old Hickory and his "inegalitarian society."