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Realignment and Macropartisanship

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  • Meffert, Michael F.
  • Norpoth, Helmut
  • Ruhil, Anirudh V. S.

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Aggregate party identification (macropartisanship) has exhibited substantial movement in the U.S. electorate over the last half century. We contend that a major key to that movement is a rare, massive, and enduring shift of the electoral equilibrium commonly known as a partisan realignment. The research, which is based on time-series data that employ the classic measurement of party identification, shows that the 1980 election triggered a systematic growth of Republican identification that cut deeply into the overwhelming Democratic lead dating back to the New Deal realignment. Although short-term fluctuations in macropartisanship are responsive to the elements of everyday politics, neither presidential approval nor consumer sentiment is found responsible for the 1980 shift.

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  • Meffert, Michael F. & Norpoth, Helmut & Ruhil, Anirudh V. S., 2001. "Realignment and Macropartisanship," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 95(4), pages 953-962, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:95:y:2001:i:04:p:953-962_40
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    1. Shuichiro Nishioka & Eric Olson, 2022. "The Political Effects of Trade with Japan in the 1980s," Working Papers 22-04, Department of Economics, West Virginia University.
    2. Shuichiro Nishioka & Eric Olson, 2023. "The political effects of trade with Japan in the 1980s," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 61(2), pages 451-471, April.

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