Midterms and Mandates
Electoral Reassessment of Presidents and Parties
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2022
240 pages
978-1-4744-7820-5 (ISBN)
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Analyses how midterm elections have shaped the American presidency
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Patrick Andelic | Mark Mclay | Robert Mason
Midterms and Mandates
Electoral Reassessment of Presidents and Parties
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09/2022
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface: Why Midterms Matter
- Introduction: Midterms and Mandates, Presidents and Parties
- Part One: Midterm Elections in Institutional Context
- 1. Presidents and Midterm Loss
- 2. From Election to Re-election: The Electoral Politics of Presidency and Party, 1960-2012
- 3. Accountability Regimes, Partisanship and Midterm Mandates: Midterms in Contemporary America
- Part Two: Testing the New Deal Coalition
- 4. Swing Time: The New Deal Midterms of 1934 and 1938
- 5. The Domestic Politics of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 1942 Midterm Elections
- 6. Midterm Elections, the Republican Party, and the Challenge to New Deal Liberalism, 1946-1958
- 7. 'Peace need not be poison at the polls': John F. Kennedy and the Challenge of the Right in the 1962 Midterms
- Part Three: The Republican Resurgence
- 8. War on Poverty Stalled, Nixon Recalled: Republican Revival and the 1966 Midterm Elections
- 9. 'The power of their votes': Richard Nixon, the Silent Majority, and the 1970 Midterm Elections
- 10. 'Democrats dominate': The Democratic Party in Congress and the Midterms of 1974 and 1978
- 11. The Favourite Son's Favourites: Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Home-State Effect in the 1982 Midterm Elections
- 12. The 1986 Midterms: The End of the Reagan Revolution?
- Index
