Table of Contents

I: Background and Issues; 1: Introduction; 2: Party Coalitions and the 1980 Election; 3: The Two-Party System: A Personal Reflection; II: The Party Systems; 4: Party Coalitions and the Search for Modern Values: 1820–1970; 5: Coalitional and Party Transformations in the 1890s; 6: Party Coalitions in the Early Twentieth Century; 7: The Shifting Party Coalitions —from the 1930s to the 1970s; III: Contemporary Politics; 8: Coalition and Faction in American Politics: An Institutional View; 9: Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Conservatives; IV: The 1980 Campaign; 10: The Republican Strategy and Its Electoral Consequences; 11: The Democratic Strategy and Its Electoral Consequences; V: Realignment in the 1980 Election; 12: Catholics and the Democrats: Estrangement but Not Desertion; 13: Jewish Political Shift? Erosion, Yes; Conversion, No*; 14: Decay in Regional Party Coalitions: 1952–1980; VI: The Future of American Politics; 15: Developing a “Grand Coalition”; 16: Toward Confrontation?; 17: The Prospects for Reaganomics; 18: More Independent Presidential Candidacies?; 19: The New American Majority; 20: The Republican Prospects; VII: Conclusion; 21: The American Party System: Concluding Observations

About the Author

Seymour Lipset