Wall vs. Wave?
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William F. Connelly
How did a wave of anti-Republican sentiment breach the wall of structural advantages available to the majority party? In 2006, as in 1994, we learned that structural advantages are not impregnable, there is no permanent minority, and all politics is local, except when it is national. Like House Democrats in 1994, House Republicans in 2006 could not govern the country, could not govern Congress, and could not govern themselves. In particular, in both elections the majority parties beat themselves due to their failure to control the mischiefs of faction within their own ranks. In managing such factions, each party faces a constitutional quandary: government or opposition, compromise or confrontation, policy or politics.
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- The Midterm: What Political Science Should Ask Now
- Wall vs. Wave?
- Rocking the House: Competition and Turnout in the 2006 Midterm Election
- Assessing Howard Dean's Fifty State Strategy and the 2006 Midterm Elections
- Big Deal: The 2006 Midterm Elections, the Progressive Project, and the Reagan-Bush Revolution
- Republicans and Golf, Democrats and Outkast: Or, Party Political Culture from the Top Down
- A Regional Analysis of the 2006 Midterms
- The New Democratic Majority in Congress: Preferences, Structure, and Bargaining
- Midterm Elections, Partisan Context, and Political Leadership: The 2006 Elections and Party Alignment
- A Theory of Action in Iraq: The Three State Partition and a "Mirror the Mix" Strategy
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Article
- Frustrated Ambitions: The George W. Bush Presidency and the 2006 Elections
- The Midterm: What Political Science Should Ask Now
- Wall vs. Wave?
- Rocking the House: Competition and Turnout in the 2006 Midterm Election
- Assessing Howard Dean's Fifty State Strategy and the 2006 Midterm Elections
- Big Deal: The 2006 Midterm Elections, the Progressive Project, and the Reagan-Bush Revolution
- Republicans and Golf, Democrats and Outkast: Or, Party Political Culture from the Top Down
- A Regional Analysis of the 2006 Midterms
- The New Democratic Majority in Congress: Preferences, Structure, and Bargaining
- Midterm Elections, Partisan Context, and Political Leadership: The 2006 Elections and Party Alignment
- A Theory of Action in Iraq: The Three State Partition and a "Mirror the Mix" Strategy
- Review
- Back to the Future: Ongoing Strife among Leftist Intellectuals
