Hollow mandates : American public opinion and the conservative shift / Howard J. Gold.
When Ronald Reagan was elected president, many political observers argued that the election of a conservative Republican signaled a fundamental change in the political preferences of Americans - that the electorate had tired of the old Democratic liberalism and had embraced the new conservative appr...
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Conservative Shift in American Politics
- Defining Conservatism in the United States
- Changing Campaign Rhetoric
- Changes in Policy
- Issue Preferences and Ideological Symbols
- Assessments of the Political Parties
- Generational Change and the Conservative Shift
- The Rise of De Facto Conservatism
- Conclusion: Leading with the Right.