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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Notes on Contributors x
6. Preface: Why Midterms Matter xiv
7. Introduction: Midterms and Mandates, Presidents and Parties 1
8. Part One. Midterm Elections in Institutional Context
9. 1 Presidents and Midterm Loss 17
10. 2 From Election to Re-election: The Electoral Politics of Presidency and Party, 1960–2012 54
11. 3 Accountability Regimes, Partisanship and Midterm Mandates: Midterms in Contemporary America 72
12. Part Two. Testing the New Deal Coalition
13. 4 Swing Time: The New Deal Midterms of 1934 and 1938 97
14. 5 The Domestic Politics of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 1942 Midterm Elections 119
15. 6 Midterm Elections, the Republican Party, and the Challenge to New Deal Liberalism, 1946–1958 143
16. 7 ‘Peace need not be poison at the polls’: John F. Kennedy and the Challenge of the Right in the 1962 Midterms 168
17. Part Three: The Republican Resurgence
18. 8 War on Poverty Stalled, Nixon Recalled: Republican Revival and the 1966 Midterm Elections 193
19. 9 ‘The power of their votes’: Richard Nixon, the Silent Majority, and the 1970 Midterm Elections 214
20. 10 ‘Democrats dominate’: The Democratic Party in Congress and the Midterms of 1974 and 1978 235
21. 11 The Favourite Son’s Favourites: Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Home- State Effect in the 1982 Midterm Elections 257
22. 12 The 1986 Midterms: The End of the Reagan Revolution? 284
23. Index 308