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ELECTORAL PATTERNS IN ALABAMA IBD

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
08 / 2022
9783031067693
Anglès

Sinopsi

While significant attention in political science is devoted to national level elections, a comprehensive look atástate level political dynamics in the United States is so far sorely missing, and state level electoraládevelopments and shifts are treated as mere reflections of national-level dynamics and patterns. This book argues that this significantly impacts our ability to understand macro-level electoral shifts in the United States inágeneral. The book analyzes gubernatorial, congressional, and presidential election results in the state ofáAlabama from 1945 through 2020. Comprehensive maps of county-level partisan shifts over time andácomparisons between trends for different offices make it possible to isolate pivotal elections and compareástate-level and national trends over time. When and where did AlabamaâÇÖs electorate break with the Democratic Party, and were these breaks uniform across the state? Which counties shifted the most over time, and was this shift gradual or characterized by changeáelections? Comprehensive electoral data, on the county- and precinct-level, make it possible to answer theseáquestions and place state-level electoral behavior in its regional and national context. Detailed county level demographic and economic data is áused to provide local context for electoralápatterns, shifts, and continuities.

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