Title

Partisan change in southern legislatures, 1946-95

Authors

Authors

A. W. Jewett

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Legis. Stud. Q.

Keywords

AMERICAN-STATES; ELECTIONS; Political Science

Abstract

What accounts for partisan change in southern legislatures between 1946 and 1995? I draw my hypotheses from general theories of partisan change and tailor them to the South based on history and previous research to explain the variance in southern Republican legislative strength. I estimate a pooled time series analysis of the eleven former Confederate states to test the path model. The model uses Democratic elite liberalism as an endogenous variable in order to determine the overall effect of several important independent variables including black population, black political influence, urbanization, white northern migration, and wealth. Determinants of state legislative partisan change include the following: secular forces such as wealth, urbanization, and migration; political forces such as presidential midterm losses, party organizational strength, and political scandal; party issue stances on race and general party ideology; changes in national party preferences that precede change at lower levels; and finally, rules governing the structure of political opportunity such as reapportionment and participation.

Journal Title

Legislative Studies Quarterly

Volume

26

Issue/Number

3

Publication Date

1-1-2001

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

457

Last Page

486

WOS Identifier

WOS:000170284100005

ISSN

0362-9805

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