6. Realignment and Short-Term Crisis: A Case Study of Public Opinion during the Watergate Era

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. PART I Issues in the Study of Realignment
5. 1. Toward a Theory of Realignment: An Introduction 1
6. 2. The Structure and Meaning of Critical Realignment: The Case of Pennsylvania, 1928-1932 21
7. 3. Methodological Issues in the Study of Realignment 52
8. PART II Mass Behavioral Change
9. 4. Secular Realignment: The Concept and Its Utility 67
10. 5. Realignment, Party Decomposition, and Issue Voting 82
11. 6. Realignment and Short-Term Crisis: A Case Study of Public Opinion during the Watergate Era 110
12. 7. Recent Evidence on the Stability of Party Identification: The New Michigan Election Study Panel 132
13. PART III Elite Behavioral Change
14. 8. Political Realignments and Recruitment to the U.S. Congress, 1870-1970 155
15. 9. Elections, Congress, and Public Policy Changes: 1886-1960 176
16. 10. The Impact of Realigning Elections on Public Bureaucracies 202
17. 11. The Supreme Court's Role in Critical Elections 229
18. PART IV The Impact of Realignment on Policy
19. 12. The Federal Income Tax and the Realignment of the 1890s 261
20. 13. Partisan Realignment and Tax Policy: 1789-1976 288
21. Notes on Contributors 325
22. Bibliography 329