Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-178) and index.
Contents
Beyond realignment and realignment theory : American political eras, 1789-1989 / Joel H. Silbey -- Like waiting for Godot : the uselessness of "realignment" for understanding change in contemporary American Politics / Everett Carll Ladd -- Notion of an electoral order : the structure of electoral politics at the accession of George Bush / Byron E. Shafer -- No more "Waiting for Godot" : comments on the putative "End of realignment" / Samuel T. McSeveney -- Critical realignment : dead or alive? / Walter Dean Burnham -- Background to debate : a reader's guide and bibliography / Harold F. Bass, Jr.
