Elephant's Edge: The Republicans as a Ruling Party - Hardcover

Taylor, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0275985369 ISBN 13: 9780275985363

Verlag: Praeger, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

The Republican Party currently enjoys an edge. The advantage can be seen in Congress, state politics, judicial rulings, foreign and domestic policy, party finances, the media, public attitudes, and economic and demographic developments. Yet the Republicans do not seem capable of translating this into a durable electoral majority.

Conditions now exist within American politics that will facilitate the establishment of Republican rule. Many of these conditions have ripened during the past decade. They include rules governing elections and campaign finance, shifts in core political values among the public that are consistent with Republican philosophy, and fundamental social and economic changes in American society that are likely to increase the ranks of Republican voters. The author explains in lucid, engaging terms how Republicans have taken control of both houses of Congress and experienced a remarkable resurgence at the state level. He explores how conservatives are utilizing the courts to simultaneously move policy rightward and mobilize sympathetic parts of the electorate. He also examines social and economic changes to show how racial politics, religiosity, and the nature of work and wealth benefit today's Republican Party.

Republican rule should not be confused with Republican realignment. These conditions will advantage Republicans in future elections and bring about consistent Republican control of government at all levels-federal, state, and local, executive, legislative, and judicial. However, current conditions do not guarantee the kind of enduring Republican majority many journalists and strategists have predicted. Taylor explains the factors that will prohibit the Republicans from fully exploiting their advantages and dominating American politics the way the Democrats did in the 30 years following the New Deal. These factors include internal and intractable tensions within the Republican Party, the parties' sophisticated political information gathering strategies, and the innate risk aversion of the campaign industry.

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Originally from Liverpool, Andrew Taylor now teaches at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of four collections of poetry from Shearsman Books, and over a dozen with other publishers. He has published a critical volume on Adrian Henri, and is now at work one a monograph on the work of Peter Finch, whose Collected Poems he edited for Seren.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Praeger
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0275985369
• ISBN 13: 9780275985363
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 338
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