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The Liberalism of American Jews – Has It Been Explained?

1. The south and the democratic convention 2. The dynamics of party coalition building 3. The unstable party equilibrium, 1877-96 4. The re-assembling of the democratic coalition, 1896-1912 5. Woodrow Wilson and the failure to re-shape the democratic coalition, 1912-20 6. How could a winning democratic coalition be constructed, 1920-32? 7. Democratic party dominance or restored party equilibrium, 1938-52? 8. The two parties' coalitions come under threat, 1952-62 9. Conclusions.

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The Democratic Party Heads North, 1877-1962

Scholars have long acknowledged that the foreign language press could make a significant contribution to the shaping of the political experience of nationality groups in the United States before World War II. Yet, by focusing on five Italian-American newspapers published in Pennsylvania, this article argues that subservience to fascism, short sighted opportunism, the deference to political patrons who were not members of the Italian-American communities, and the necessity of making a living through periodicals with a small circulation generally prevented the editors and owners of Italian-language newspapers from being effective political brokers within their ethnic communities

The Italian-Language Press, Italian American Voters, and Political Intermediation in Pennsylvania in the Interwar Years

Kristi Andersen. The Creation of a Democratic Majority 1928-1936. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1979. 160 + xv pp. Barbara Blumberg. The New Deal and the Unemployed: The View from New York City. Lewisburg, Pa., and London: Buckneii University Press and Associated University Presses, 1979. 332 pp. Sidney Fine. Frank Murphy: The Detroit Years. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1975. 608 + ix pp. Sidney Fine. Frank Murphy: The New Deal Years. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1979. 708 + xii pp. John W. Jeffries. Testing the Roosevelt Coalition: Connecticut Society and Politics in the Era of World War II. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1979. 312 + xiv pp. Martha H. Swain. Pat Harrison: The New Deal Years. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1978. 316 + ix pp. The New Deal remains not only a major topic for research among students of American history, but, even more than three decades after Roosevelt's death, a subject of continuing historiographical c...

The Making of the Roosevelt Coalition: Some Reconsiderations

Ethnic History in Pennsylvania: A Selected Bibliography.

HISTORIANS AND POLITICAL SCIENTISTS HAVE ONLY RECENTLY COME to recognize something that was always apparent to grass-roots politicians: a voter's ethnic and religious affiliation is an important determinant of how he casts his ballot. The major substantive fruit of the "behavioral revolution" that is slowly overtaking American political history has been the discovery of cultural roots in voting behavior and a downgrading of economic, class and sectional interpretations. Lee Benson in a seminal study of New York during the Jacksonian period found that the stand of parties on socioeconomic issues had relatively little effect upon bloc voting; far more important were factors that stimulated reference group associations, both positive and negative. Pious Yankees, for example, were attracted to WhigAnti-Masonic appeals for state guided moral reforms; Irish Catholics were hostile.' In complementary studies of the political realignment of the 1890s, Paul Kleppner and Richard Jensen2 pursued the main thrust of Benson's reference group analysis to discover that the polarization of important segments of the voting population of selected Midwestern states between those of "pietistic" religious bent (Methodists and Baptists) against those of more "ritualistic" orientation (e.g., Catholics and Lutherans) was a major force in sustaining the political stalemate that prevailed until the 90s. The political vacillation that accompanied the realignment resulted from the shifting of party allegiance of critical blocs, particularly the German Lutherans, in response to cultural issues but little related to national political debates or

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John L. Shover

Papers

Ethnicity and Religion in Philadelphia Politics, 1924-40