Search Results for the Democratic Party

...Philip Yaure The Great Migration and the Democratic Party: Black Voters and the Realignment of American Politics in the 20 th Century , by Keneshia N. Grant , Philadelphia , Temple University Press , 2020 , 214 pp., $74.50 (hardback); $27.95 (paperback); $27.95 (ebook), ISBN 978...

...Adam Hilton Abstract By the late 1960s, the Democratic Party had fallen into crisis. Vietnam, urban riots, and declining electoral fortunes marked a crossroads in the history of the party, raising questions about the meaning and trajectory of postwar liberalism. Amid the political chaos...

...Holloway Sparks Abstract Tea Party activists have proudly embraced anger and outrage as a distinguishing mark of patriotic dissidence, and have successfully exploited the contemporary politics of anger in the United States. Although much democratic theory casts anger as a hazardous impediment...

... POLITICAL SCIENCE information is continually maintained and there are no dailies or independent radio or television stations. We wish to note that Mr. Ramsey Clark, former attorney general of the United States, as well as Democratic leader Jesse Jackson, denounced the horrendous crime committed against...

... eager to expand on growing support from traditionally Democratic, non-college-educated workers attracted by Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns, and those who wish to restore the party’s earlier focus on so-called fiscal conservatism—probusiness, free market–oriented policies. Similarly, since 2020, figures...

...Timothy W. Luke Abstract This analysis provisionally outlines a critical analysis of the American presidential elections of 1912 and 2016. While the 1912 contest is not identical to 2016, Wilson’s victory introduced a Progressive politics into government after pitting the Democratic Party against...

...Matt Guardino; Dean Snyder Abstract Within months of Barack Obama’s election, a putatively grass-roots conservative uprising emerged to challenge the Democratic Party’s agenda. In this article, we analyze the role of cable news in the rise of the Tea Party during the current “crisis...

..., homosexual rights, feminism, gun control) have inverted the class determinant of partisan choice to the point where lower-income white voters favor the Republican Party while professionals have shifted toward the Democratic Party. The article concludes that there is significant evidence that the class...

...,” as a sub-type of the social democratic party family. Clarifying the character of these parties is not only important for conceptual consistency. By labelling “radical” parties that are not so, political scientists risk reinforcing the legitimacy of the neoliberal status quo, not the least by excluding from...

... committed themselves to the struggle understand that prison, exile or death are likely; that some former Panthers seem to have erroneously stated that the BBP is one wing of the Democratic Party; that what the BPP called for in the 1960s is still valid—a UN supervised plebiscite for Black Americans...

...Taylor E. Dark, III Abstract The onset of the Great Recession raised hopes among union supporters that organized labor would be able to use the downturn to gain greater political influence and new members. But despite Democratic Party victories in 2008, unions found it quite difficult to take...

... assemblage of street protests in Thai political history. Each protestor donated ten cubic centimeters of blood to be poured at several sites, including the Government House of Thailand, the ruling Democrat Party headquarters, and the Prime Minister’s residence. Other vials were used to paint murals along...

... apartheid, society still reflects continuing and intensifying race and class divisions and tensions. Neither the Democratic or Republican parties have the political will or base to offer policies that would effectively eliminate racial hierarchy in this country. It is argued that the development...

...Loan K. Le; Paul Ong Abstract Scholarship holds that high rates of party identification constitute a key marker of successful immigrant incorporation, yet rates of Democratic or Republican affiliation remain surprisingly low among Asian Americans. This longitudinal study investigates the extent...

...John T. McCartney Abstract In 1972 in Nassau, Bahamas, the Vanguard Nationalist and Socialist Party (VNSP) was founded by a multi-class group of Bahamians to fight the corruption, victimization, and denial of democratic rights that the mostly Black Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) was practicing...

... and social democratic traditions, re-projecting itself as an essentially conservative, even Thatcherite, party, or has it managed to develop a novel, dynamic and modernising social democracy for new times? In this paper I seek to provide a benchmark against which such propositions can be evaluated, assessing...

... that Republican women did not reference the Tea Party, nor embrace being "Mama Grizzlies." In addition, these candidates shied away from discussing their gendered identities and supporting "women's issues." Finally, there were few differences between Democratic and Republican women with regard to how...

...-based discursive strategies of neoliberalization. While the empirical analysis confirms the cross-party and longitudinal extension of neoliberal political economy, the conclusions discuss the relevance of these findings to understand contemporary democratic crisis. © 2019 Caucus for a New Political...

...Gail M. Presbey Abstract The IMF, World Bank, and former colonial powers have put pressure on African countries to adopt multiparty democracy. Because of this pressure, many formerly one-party states as well as some military dictatorships have embraced Western and Parliamentarian democratic forms...

...Jennifer Leigh Disney Abstract Mozambique and Nicaragua have each experienced a transition from a Marxist—Leninist, revolutionary state to a liberal—democratic—capitalist, multi-party state in the 1990s. However, in Mozambique, the historic party of the revolution, FRELIMO, remains the party...