Midterms and Mandates
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-7819-9 (ISBN)
Midterm elections have forced presidents to adjust course and have heralded the rise or fall of new party coalitions, yet they remain understudied in comparison to their presidential counterparts. This book offers a fresh perspective on the American presidency by analysing the significance of midterm elections in the United States. Midterms not only provide an important opportunity for voters to evaluate the record of a president so far, but also have consequences for an administration’s pursuit of the president’s agenda over the two years that follow. As the essays in this collection show, midterms modify in crucial ways the mandate that a president gained at the time of their election to the White House. The volume integrates contributions from political scientists and historians to create a truly multidisciplinary understanding of the interplay between midterm elections and the American presidency.
Mark McLay is Lecturer in American History at the University of Glasgow. He contributed to Constructing Presidential Legacy (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and published articles in Journal of Political History and Historical Journal.
Preface: Why Midterms Matter - Julia R. Azari
Introduction: Midterms and Mandates, Presidents and Parties - Patrick Andelic, Mark McLay & Robert Mason
Part I: Midterm Elections in Institutional Context
1. Presidents and Midterm Loss - Andrew Rudalevige
2. From Election to Re-election: The Electoral Politics of Presidency and Party, 1960–2012 - Sarah Tiplady
3. Accountability Regimes, Partisanship, and Midterm Mandates: Midterms in Contemporary America - Nadia Hilliard
Part II: Testing the New Deal Coalition
4. Swing Time: The New Deal Midterms of 1934 and 1938 - Iwan Morgan
5. The Domestic Politics of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 1942 Midterm Elections - Andrew Johnstone
6. Midterm Elections, the Republican Party, and the Challenge to New Deal Liberalism, 1946–1958 - Robert Mason
7. ‘Peace Need Not Be Poison at the Polls’: John F. Kennedy and the Challenge of the Right in the 1962 Midterms - Mark Eastwood
Part III: The Republican Resurgence
8. War on Poverty Stalled, Nixon Recalled: Republican Revival and the 1966 Midterm Elections - Mark McLay
9. ‘The Power of Their Votes’: Richard Nixon, the Silent Majority, and the 1970 Midterm Elections - Sarah Thelen
10. ‘Democrats Dominate’: The Democratic Party in Congress and the Midterms of 1974 and 1978 - Patrick Andelic
11. The Favourite Son’s Favourites: Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Home State Effect in the Midterm Elections - Richard Johnson
12. The 1986 Midterms: The End of the Reagan Revolution? - Joe Ryan-Hume
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.05.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New Perspectives on the American Presidency |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 black and white tables |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-7819-0 / 1474478190 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-7819-9 / 9781474478199 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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