SOUTHERN PARTIES AND ELECTIONS; STUDIES IN REGIONAL POLITICAL CHANGE.

Steed, Robert P.; Laurence W. Moreland; Tod A. Baker (editors). R. Bruce Anderson, Jay Barth, Charles Bullock, Patrick Cotter, Thomas Eamon, Samuel Fisher, Ronald Keith Gaddie, Layne Hoppe, John Hotaling, Clifton McCleskey, Jon Mills, et al (contributors).

ISBN 10: 0817308628 / ISBN 13: 9780817308629

Published by Tuscaloosa, AL and London: The University of Alabama Press, 1997., 1997

About this Item

First printing (not stated). xvi, 234 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; spine ends bumped. Red cloth; slight bumping to spine ends. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. With contributions by R. Bruce Anderson, Jay Barth, Charles S. Bullock III, Patrick R. Cotter, Thomas F. Eamon, Samuel H. Fisher III, Ronald Keith Gaddie, Layne Hoppe, John J. Hotaling, Clifton McCleskey, Jon L. Mills, Richard Nadeau, Richard K. Scher, Harold W. Stanley, David E. Sturrock, and Felita T. Williams. {AmHist-Shelf#2} ISBN 0817308628.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SOUTHERN PARTIES AND ELECTIONS; STUDIES IN REGIONAL POLITICAL CHANGE.
• Publisher: Tuscaloosa, AL and London: The University of Alabama Press, 1997.
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817308628
• ISBN 13: 9780817308629
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History

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Synopsis

This collection of essays focuses on regional political change in the politics, parties and elections of the Southern United States over the past half-century. It examines legal issues, ""districting"", nominations and the electoral processes themselves.

Review

Electorally the South has become bipartisan in recent decades. This collection of excellent studies . . . examines many facets of this southern political change. . . . Very thorough documentation, outstanding bibliography, good index. Strongly recommended for college and university libraries. "Choice""

This collection asks compelling questions and challenges both political scientists and historians to decipher the incredible political transformation of the South from the days of the Dixiecrats to those of a vibrant Republican Party and threatened Democratic Party. "North Carolina Historical Review""

Students of southern politics will find the different chapters interesting. . . . The emphasis of the work is on a changebin the South, and in its own way, each essay examines this phenomenon. "Southeastern Political Review""

"Electorally the South has become bipartisan in recent decades. This collection of excellent studies . . . examines many facets of this southern political change. . . . Very thorough documentation, outstanding bibliography, good index. Strongly recommended for college and university libraries."--Choice

"This collection asks compelling questions and challenges both political scientists and historians to decipher the incredible political transformation of the South from the days of the Dixiecrats to those of a vibrant Republican Party and threatened Democratic Party."--North Carolina Historical Review

"Students of southern politics will find the different chapters interesting. . . . The emphasis of the work is on a changebin the South, and in its own way, each essay examines this phenomenon."--Southeastern Political Review