Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. TABLES xi
5. FIGURES xiv
6. Foreword xix
7. 1. Introduction 1
8. 2. The American Public in the 1950s 14
9. 3. The Pattern Changes: From the 1950s to the 1970s 43
10. 4. The Decline of Partisanship 47
11. 5. Generation, Partisan Shift, and Realignment: A Glance Back to the New Deal 74
12. 6. 11New Issues 96
13. 7. The Level of Conceptualization 110
14. 8. The Rise of Issue Consistency 123
15. 9. Issue Consistency: A Closer Look 145
16. 10. The Rise of Issue Voting 156
17. 11. The Years Before Eisenhower: Looking Backward 174
18. 12. Issues and the Parties: One United, One Divided Against Itself 194
19. 13. The Party Coalitions 210
20. 14. Attitude Change Among Groups 243
21. 15. The Sequence of Changes 270
22. 16. American Elections: Past and Future 289
23. 17. Candidates and the Electorate 307
24. 18. Issue Voting: A Further Analysis 319
25. 19. From the Past to the Future: Some Speculative Conclusions 345
26. 20. Epilogue 1976 357
27. Appendices. Index
28. Appendix 1. THE DATA 389
29. Appendix 2A. THE ISSUE QUESTIONS EMPLOYED IN THE ANALYSIS OF ATTITUDE CONSISTENCY 391
30. Appendix 2B. 400
31. Appendix 2C 403
32. Appendix 2D 406
33. Appendix 3 411
34. Appendix 4 419
35. Index 423