The Emerging Democratic MajorityONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A WINNER OF THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY'S ANNUAL POLITICAL BOOK AWARD Political experts John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira convincingly use hard data -- demographic, geographic, economic, and political -- to forecast the dawn of a new progressive era. In the 1960s, Kevin Phillips, battling conventional wisdom, correctly foretold the dawn of a new conservative era. His book, The Emerging Republican Majority, became an indispensable guide for all those attempting to understand political change through the 1970s and 1980s. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, with the country in Republican hands, The Emerging Democratic Majority is the indispensable guide to this era. In five well-researched chapters and a new afterword covering the 2002 elections, Judis and Teixeira show how the most dynamic and fastest-growing areas of the country are cultivating a new wave of Democratic voters who embrace what the authors call "progressive centrism" and take umbrage at Republican demands to privatize social security, ban abortion, and cut back environmental regulations. As the GOP continues to be dominated by neoconservatives, the religious right, and corporate influence, this is an essential volume for all those discontented with their narrow agenda -- and a clarion call for a new political order. |
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... coalition to another. American political majorities are composed of coalitions of different interests, classes, regions, religious persuasions, and ethnic and racial groups. The conservative Republican majority of the 1980s brought ...
... coalition to another. American political majorities are composed of coalitions of different interests, classes, regions, religious persuasions, and ethnic and racial groups. The conservative Republican majority of the 1980s brought ...
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... coalition supported the new religious right and the rollback, not merely the containment, of Soviet communism. Much of the conservative Republicans' success — and their ability to hold together their coalition — came from widespread ...
... coalition supported the new religious right and the rollback, not merely the containment, of Soviet communism. Much of the conservative Republicans' success — and their ability to hold together their coalition — came from widespread ...
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... coalition — a collapse the 1 968 candidacy of Alabama governor George Wallace had foreshadowed. And a Republican majority finally did emerge in 1980, but only after the GOP had rebounded from the Watergate scandal. Our view is that we ...
... coalition — a collapse the 1 968 candidacy of Alabama governor George Wallace had foreshadowed. And a Republican majority finally did emerge in 1980, but only after the GOP had rebounded from the Watergate scandal. Our view is that we ...
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... coalitions that dominate American politics and in the worldview through which citizens interpret events and make political judgments. Realignments happened before in 1860-64, 1896, and 1932—36. These past realignments followed or took ...
... coalitions that dominate American politics and in the worldview through which citizens interpret events and make political judgments. Realignments happened before in 1860-64, 1896, and 1932—36. These past realignments followed or took ...
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... coalition — Herbert Hoover's Republicans — out of power, so that another — Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal Democrats — could take over. Realignments take place because a dominant political coalition fails to adapt to or to contain a ...
... coalition — Herbert Hoover's Republicans — out of power, so that another — Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal Democrats — could take over. Realignments take place because a dominant political coalition fails to adapt to or to contain a ...
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