This section features a cribsheet on the different theories covered in this course.
Cribsheet.
| THEORIES |
WHEN |
SUDDEN/GRADUAL |
ISSUES |
| Classic realignment theory |
1932 |
Sudden |
Varies: war, depression, populists |
| Issue evolution |
1964 |
Gradual |
Race |
| Carmines, McIver, Stimson - Unrealized Independents |
1960s |
Gradual - 1960s - 3 factors change |
Social welfare, economy, race, Vietnam War |
| Meffert et al. - Macropartisanship |
1980 |
Gradual - permanent (shock, aftershocks) |
|
| Abramowitz and Saunders |
1980-1994 |
Gradual since 1980 - 1994 as culmination |
Not race; whole set of issues |
| Jacobson |
|
Mass party alignment: Two-way causality |
|
| Layman and Carsey |
|
Multidimensional; not issue displacement |
Race later, not just during 1960s |