POLI 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: White Southerners, Dealignment, William Jennings Bryan
23 Mar 2016
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Types of presidential elections: maintaining elections: party identifications continue without any great change. Democrats back to his party: deviating elections: basic distribution of party identification continue without any great change, but short-term forces, like candidate characteristics or issues, are powerful enough to cause the defeat of the majority party. Eisenhower won the election of 1952 because he was a general in world war ii and had a likeable personality: realigning elections: groups supporting the parties change in significant ways, and that significant change endures. These elections usually produce a new majority party. For example, many immigrants became democrats in the election of 1932, resulting in franklin delano roosevelt"s victory. The first american party system (1801-1828: the first system consisted of democratic-republicans versus federalists. The democratic-republicans, led by thomas jefferson and james. The federalists, led by john adams and alexander hamilton, preferred. The second american party system (1829-1860: democratic-republicans could not manage all of the conflicts in its coalition.
