Midterms and Mandates : Electoral Reassessment of Presidents and Parties (New Perspectives on the American Presidency)

Andelic, Patrick (EDT)/ Mclay, Mark (EDT)/ Mason, Robert (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2022/09発売）

Edinburgh University Press（2022/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474478182
• DDC分類 324.60973

Full Description

Midterm elections have forced presidents to adjust course, reshaped their relationship with the party they lead, and heralded the rise or fall of new electoral coalitions. This book presents a fresh perspective on the American presidency by analysing how midterms modify in crucial ways the mandate that a president gained at the time of their election to the White House. Midterms not only provide an important opportunity for voters to evaluate the record of a president so far, but also have consequences for an administration's pursuit of the president's agenda over the two years that follow. Bringing together political scientists and historians, this collection presents a multidisciplinary understanding of the interplay between midterm elections and the American presidency.Patrick Andelic is Senior Lecturer in American History at Northumbria University.

Contents

Preface: Why Midterms Matter - Julia R. Azari

Introduction: Midterms and Mandates, Presidents and Parties - Patrick Andelic, Mark McLay & Robert Mason

Part I: Midterm Elections in Institutional Context

1. Presidents and Midterm Loss - Andrew Rudalevige

2. From Election to Re-election: The Electoral Politics of Presidency and Party, 1960-2012 - Sarah Tiplady

3. Accountability Regimes, Partisanship, and Midterm Mandates: Midterms in Contemporary America - Nadia Hilliard

Part II: Testing the New Deal Coalition

4. Swing Time: The New Deal Midterms of 1934 and 1938 - Iwan Morgan

5. The Domestic Politics of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 1942 Midterm Elections - Andrew Johnstone

6. Midterm Elections, the Republican Party, and the Challenge to New Deal Liberalism, 1946-1958 - Robert Mason

7. 'Peace Need Not Be Poison at the Polls': John F. Kennedy and the Challenge of the Right in the 1962 Midterms - Mark Eastwood

Part III: The Republican Resurgence

8. War on Poverty Stalled, Nixon Recalled: Republican Revival and the 1966 Midterm Elections - Mark McLay

9. 'The Power of Their Votes': Richard Nixon, the Silent Majority, and the 1970 Midterm Elections - Sarah Thelen

10. 'Democrats Dominate': The Democratic Party in Congress and the Midterms of 1974 and 1978 - Patrick Andelic

11. The Favourite Son's Favourites: Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Home State Effect in the Midterm Elections - Richard Johnson

12. The 1986 Midterms: The End of the Reagan Revolution? - Joe Ryan-Hume