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"Voss-Hubbard offers not only a persuasive explanation for the rise and fall of the Know-Nothings but also provides valuable insights into the political culture of the pre-Civil War North." -- History: Review of New Books.
Populism --- Political science --- History --- American Party. --- Native American Party --- Order of the Star Spangled Banner --- Know-Nothing Party --- Know Nothings --- United States --- Essex County (Mass.) --- New London County (Conn.) --- Dauphin County (Pa.) --- Dauphin Co., Pa. --- New London Co., Conn. --- Essex Co., Mass. --- Politics and government
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Why have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America’s first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid influx of 4.2 million immigrants between 1840 and 1860 and culminated in the dramatic rise of the National American Party. As previous studies have focused on the coasts, historians have not yet completely explained why westerners joined the ranks of the National American, or “Know Nothing,” Party or why the nation’s bloodiest anti-immigrant riots erupted in western cities—namely Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. Louis. In focusing on the antebellum West, Inventing America’s First Immigration Crisis illuminates the cultural, economic, and political issues that originally motivated American nativism and explains how it ultimately shaped the political relationship between church and state.In six detailed chapters, Ritter explains how unprecedented immigration from Europe and rapid westward expansion reignited fears of Catholicism as a corrosive force. He presents new research on the inner sanctums of the secretive Order of Know-Nothings and provides original data on immigration, crime, and poverty in the urban West. Ritter argues that the country’s first bout of political nativism actually renewed Americans’ commitment to church-state separation. Native-born Americans compelled Catholics and immigrants, who might have otherwise shared an affinity for monarchism, to accept American-style democracy. Catholics and immigrants forced Americans to adopt a more inclusive definition of religious freedom. This study offers valuable insight into the history of nativism in U.S. politics and sheds light on present-day concerns about immigration, particularly the role of anti-Islamic appeals in recent elections.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. --- Nativism --- Immigrants --- History. --- History --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Anti-Catholicism --- Catholics --- American Party. --- Anti-Catholicism. --- Donald Trump. --- German. --- Immigrant. --- Immigration. --- Irish. --- Know-Nothing Party. --- Nativism. --- West.
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The Reputational Premium presents a new theory of party identification, the central concept in the study of voting. Challenging the traditional idea that voters identify with a political party out of blind emotional attachment, this pioneering book explains why party identification in contemporary American politics enables voters to make coherent policy choices. Standard approaches to the study of policy-based voting hold that voters choose based on the policy positions of the two candidates competing for their support. This study demonstrates that candidates can get a premium in support from the policy reputations of their parties. In particular, Paul Sniderman and Edward Stiglitz present a theory of how partisans take account of the parties' policy reputations as a function of the competing candidates' policy positions. A central implication of this theory of reputation-centered choices is that party identification gives candidates tremendous latitude in their policy positioning. Paradoxically, it is the party supporters who understand and are in synch with the ideological logic of the American party system who open the door to a polarized politics precisely by making the best-informed choices on offer.
Political parties --- Party affiliation. --- Parties, Political --- Party systems, Political --- Political party systems --- Political science --- Divided government --- Intra-party disagreements (Political parties) --- Political conventions --- Affiliation, Party --- Political affiliation --- Public opinion. --- Membership --- American party system. --- American politics. --- Democrats. --- Republicans. --- candidate positioning. --- democratic experiment. --- democratic politics. --- elected representatives. --- electoral punishment. --- partisans. --- party identification. --- policy conviction. --- policy positions. --- policy preferences. --- policy reputations. --- policy-based voting. --- political competence. --- political landscape. --- political parties. --- political party. --- programmatic partisanship. --- programmatic party identifiers. --- reputational premium. --- spatial reasoning. --- spatial voting. --- supply-side theory. --- voters.
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Citizens are political simpletons--that is only a modest exaggeration of a common characterization of voters. Certainly, there is no shortage of evidence of citizens' limited political knowledge, even about matters of the highest importance, along with inconsistencies in their thinking, some glaring by any standard. But this picture of citizens all too often approaches caricature. Paul Sniderman and Benjamin Highton bring together leading political scientists who offer new insights into the political thinking of the public, the causes of party polarization, the motivations for political participation, and the paradoxical relationship between turnout and democratic representation. These studies propel a foundational argument about democracy. Voters can only do as well as the alternatives on offer. These alternatives are constrained by third players, in particular activists, interest groups, and financial contributors. The result: voters often appear to be shortsighted, extreme, and inconsistent because the alternatives they must choose between are shortsighted, extreme, and inconsistent. Facing the Challenge of Democracy features contributions by John Aldrich, Stephen Ansolabehere, Edward Carmines, Jack Citrin, Susanna Dilliplane, Christopher Ellis, Michael Ensley, Melanie Freeze, Donald Green, Eitan Hersh, Simon Jackman, Gary Jacobson, Matthew Knee, Jonathan Krasno, Arthur Lupia, David Magleby, Eric McGhee, Diana Mutz, Candice Nelson, Benjamin Page, Kathryn Pearson, Eric Schickler, John Sides, James Stimson, Lynn Vavreck, Michael Wagner, Mark Westlye, and Tao Xie.
Public opinion --- Political participation --- United States --- Politics and government --- 1950s sociology. --- 2008 National Annenberg Election Study. --- American party system. --- American politics. --- American public opinion. --- Election Day registration. --- George W. Bush. --- John McCain. --- NAES. --- Pure Independents. --- Sarah Palin. --- U.S. elections. --- U.S. senators. --- U.SЃhina relations. --- Who Votes?. --- activism. --- alternative modeling strategies. --- campaign strategy. --- candidate-centered campaigns. --- candidate-centered voting. --- challenger partisans. --- citizen competence. --- citizen preferences. --- citizens. --- civic engagement. --- closing dates. --- cognition. --- conflict of interest. --- congressional elections. --- conservative identification. --- cosmopolitan orientation. --- cosmopolitanism. --- democracy. --- democratic representation. --- election outcomes. --- electoral preferences. --- elite-driven theory. --- foreign policy. --- ideological conservatives. --- ideological consistency. --- ideological contradiction. --- ideological polarization. --- ideological shift. --- incumbent partisans. --- independent voter. --- independents. --- institution-free approach. --- institutions. --- issue preferences. --- job approval ratings. --- liberal policy preferences. --- mass belief systems. --- mass opinion. --- modern political campaigns. --- nonvoters. --- ordinary citizens. --- participatory bias. --- partisan bias. --- partisan differences. --- partisan differential. --- partisan polarization. --- party identification. --- party polarization. --- party-centered voting. --- polarization. --- policy preference heuristics. --- policy preferences. --- political activism. --- political behavior. --- political candidates. --- political consistency. --- political participation. --- political participations. --- political parties. --- political preferences. --- political right. --- political scientists. --- politically coherent choices. --- politics. --- public opinion surveys. --- public opinion. --- public. --- purposive belief systems. --- purposive reasoning. --- registration deadlines. --- roll-call behavior. --- social spaces. --- universal turnout. --- vote choice. --- vote misreporting. --- vote models. --- vote preference. --- vote validation study. --- voter turnout. --- voters. --- votes.
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