Hershey Chapter 7 Flashcards
Party Realignments
- Enduring changes in parties coalitions
2. Changes in the coalitions reflect within the party
First Party System
1st- (1801-1828) Power of the national government, Jefferson and state rights, expansion of suffrage.
New Deal Coalition Components
- Utilized the less privileged and minorities, lower income groups, farmers, plus the South to dominate.
- Promoted labor over business
Social bases of party coalitions
- SES- Social Economic Status
- Race/Ethnicity
- Region
- Urban vs Rural
- Religion/Commitment
- Gender
- Center role of issues in group-party linkage
Clearer differences between two parties’ coalitions on issues
- More Government Spending- Democrats, not Republicans
- Raise minimum wage- Democrats, not Republicans
- Gender rights- Relatively similar, but more Democrats
- Military Usage- Republicans, not Democrats
- Ideological self-identification- very democratic, not republican at all.
Maintaining elections
- Presidential candidates of the majority party normally wins, maintains status quo
Deviating Elections
- Short-term forces like candidate characteristics/issues defeat majority party candidates
Dealignment
- Decline in party loyalty, rise of “independents”
Second Party System
2nd- (1829-1860) One party rule of Democratic Republicans split into Democrats and Whigs, but Democrats still strong as Whigs were elitists.
Third Party System
3rd- (1861-1896) Civil War/emergence of the Republican party, South very democrat with North/Midwest Republican.
Fourth Party System
4th- (1897-1932) Country controlled by Republicans, issues of regional/economic conflicts.
Fifth Party System
5th- (1933-1968) Great Depression/Rise of New Deal and FDR puts Democrats on top for 35 years.
Sixth Party System
6th- (1969-Present) Shifts in demographics, Republicans take white conservatives and blacks move to Democrats. Regionally balanced/Polarized
