Red fighting blue : how geography and electoral rules polarize American politics
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Red fighting blue : how geography and electoral rules polarize American politics
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The work Red fighting blue : how geography and electoral rules polarize American politics represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Red fighting blue : how geography and electoral rules polarize American politics
- Title remainder
- how geography and electoral rules polarize American politics
- Statement of responsibility
- David A. Hopkins
- Subject
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- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
- Election law -- United States
- United States, Congress
- Politics and government
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
- Election districts -- United States
- Political geography
- Election law
- Since 1989
- Election districts
- Electoral geography
- Presidents -- United States -- Election
- Electoral geography -- United States
- United States
- Political geography
- Presidents -- Election
- United States, Congress -- Election districts
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The national electoral map has split into warring regional bastions of Republican red and Democratic blue, producing a deep and enduring partisan divide in American politics. In Red Fighting Blue, David A. Hopkins places the current partisan and electoral era in historical context, explains how the increased salience of social issues since the 1980s has redefined the parties' geographic bases of support, and reveals the critical role that American political institutions play in intermediating between the behavior of citizens and the outcome of public policy-making. The widening geographic gap in voters' partisan preferences, as magnified further by winner-take-all electoral rules, has rendered most of the nation safe territory for either Democratic or Republican candidates in both presidential and congressional elections - with significant consequences for party competition, candidate strategy, and the operation of government"--
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- JK1341
- LC item number
- .H67 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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