The Long Red Thread - Kyle Kondik

The Long Red Thread

How Democratic Dominance Gave Way to Republican Advantage in US House Elections

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Buch | Softcover
160 Seiten
2021
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-2442-1 (ISBN)
27,40 inkl. MwSt
Election analyst Kyle Kondik examines House elections since the 1964 Supreme Court “one person, one vote” rulings to explain the Republicans' consistent advantage from their 1994 takeover to the present.
An incisive study that shows how Republicans transformed the US House of Representatives into a consistent GOP stronghold—with or without a majority.

Long-term Democratic dominance in the US House of Representatives gave way to a Republican electoral advantage and frequently held majority following the GOP takeover in 1994. Republicans haven’t always held the majority in recent decades, but nationalization, partisan realignment, and the gerrymandering of House seats have contributed to a political climate in which they've had an edge more often than not for nearly thirty years.

The Long Red Thread examines each House election cycle from 1964 to 2020, surveying academic and journalistic literature to identify key trends and takeaways from more than a half-century of US House election results in order to predict what Americans can expect to see in the future.

Kyle Kondik is one of the nation’s top analysts of US House elections. He is the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan election forecasting newsletter published by the University of Virginia Center for Politics. He is the author of The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President, also from Ohio University Press, and has edited and contributed to several recent books on US elections. As a frequently cited expert on American politics, Kondik has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, PBS NewsHour, and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Politico Magazine, and other publications.

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Introduction From Dark Blue to Light Red

Data, Definitions, and Methodology

1. The Partisan Consequences of the Reapportionment: Revolution in the United States House of Representatives, 1964–74

2. Two The Roots of the Republican Revolution, 1976–94

3. The House from 1996 to 2020: A Persistent but not Unassailable Republican Edge

Conclusion A Half Century of Change in the House

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Athens
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Regional- / Landesgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-8214-2442-4 / 0821424424
ISBN-13 978-0-8214-2442-1 / 9780821424421
Zustand Neuware
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