As Jared Abbott aptly noted, class dealignment for the Left represents “the defining political challenge of our time.” In ...

Class dealignment, in short, should be understood as a result of Democrats’ policy decisions in the 1990s and their work since 2000 to actively bring their electoral strategy into line with their ...

American politics, Timothy Shenk quips in his newest book, Left Adrift, “used to be simple: Republicans were for business, Democrats for labor.” But since the 1970s, class dealignment—the delinkage of ...

Dealignment has arrived. Republicans blew it, and are now so repellent that Americans increasingly reject both political parties. In the latest Washington Post/ABC poll, 43 percent of voters labeled ...

What happened to the Democratic majority? Today the march of class dealignment feels like an inexorable fact of American political life. But is it? Do political parties make coalitions, or do ...

Dealignment is incompatible not only with realignment but also with “alignment”—that is, legacy membership in established collective security alliances. NATO, established to prevent the USSR from ...

According to the latest quarterly assessment of partisanship by the Gallup Poll, just 34 percent of Americans are Democrats and only 28 percent are Republicans. This represents slightly less ...

This paper draws on presidential and congressional surveys between 1952 and 1984 in order to survey the extent of southern partisan changes and to evaluate the electoral evidence for realignment or ...

After their big victories in the 2006 and 2008 elections, Democrats made the same mistake that they had made after 1992 and that Republicans had in 1994 and 2004: They assumed they had won a permanent ...

The rivalry of two men tells the story of how Democrats fumbled with their traditional base—and how they can win again. American politics, Timothy Shenk quips in his newest book, Left Adrift, “used to ...