Chapter 1 The Strange Career of Black Disfranchisement Chapter 2 The Rise and Fall of the White Primary Chapter 3 The Poll Tax Must Go Chapter 4 The South Fights Back: Boswellianism and Bilboism Chapter 5 The Suffrage Crusade in the South: The Early Phase Chapter 6 Politics and the Origins of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 Chapter 7 Politics and the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 Chapter 8 Justice Delayed... Justice Denied Chapter 9 The Suffrage Crusade in the South: The Kennedy Phase Chapter 10 We Shall Overcome Chapter 11 Free at Last? Chapter 12 Notes Chapter 13 Bibliography Chapter 14 Index

Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969

Academic research on Christian nationalism has revealed a considerable amount about the scope of its relationships to public policy views in the US. However, work thus far has not addressed an essential question: why now? Research by the authors of this Element advances answers, showcasing how deeper engagement with 'the 3Ms' – measurement, mechanisms and mobilization – can help unpack how and why Christian nationalism has entered our politics as a partisan project. Indeed, it is difficult to understand the dynamics of Christian nationalism without reference to the parties, as it has been a worldview used to mobilize Republicans while simultaneously recruiting and demobilizing Democrats. The mechanisms of these efforts hinge on a deep desire for social dominance that is ordained by God – an order elites suggest is threatened by Democrats and 'the left.' These elite appeals can have sweeping consequences for opinion and action, including the public's support for democratic processes.

The Full Armor of God

The Political Role of Religion in the United States.

Why have group-party alliances become more common since the mid-twentieth century? To address this question, I develop a continuum of group-party relationships, running from fluid, unstructured interactions, akin to political pluralism, to highly institutionalized alliances, as we might see in a firm. Drawing on pluralist scholarship and theories of firm formation and evolution, I explore the costs and benefits of different arrangements and explain why we might expect to see movement along the continuum over time. On the one hand, pluralism offers flexibility to parties and groups, and alliances have little value when parties are too weak to discipline their members in Congress. On the other, institutionalized alliances offer significant efficiency and security gains, which are especially valuable during periods of growth. I demonstrate the plausibility of this organizational theory by examining the evolution of group-party relations in the executive branch from the Nixon through Reagan administrations using archival documents collected at four presidential libraries.

The Efficiencies and Pathologies of Special Interest Partisanship

Since the original edition of \"Dynamics of the Party System\" was published in 1973, American politics have continued on a tumultuous course. In the vacuum left by the decline of the Democratic and Republican parties, single-interest groups have risen and flourished. Protest movements on the left and the New Right at the opposite pole have challenged and divided the major parties, and the Reagan Revolution--in reversing a fifty-year trend toward governmental expansion--may turn out to have revolutionized the party system too.In this edition, as in the first, current political trends and events are placed in a historical and theoretical context. Focusing upon three major realignments of the past--those of the 1850s, the 1890s, and the 1930s--Sundquist traces the processes by which basic transformations of the country's two-party system occur. From the historical case studies, he fashions a theory as to the why and how of party realignment, then applies it to current and recent developments, through the first two years of the Reagan presidency and the midterm election of 1982. The theoretical sections of the first edition are refined in this one, the historical sections are revised to take account of recent scholarship, and the chapters dealing with the postwar period are almost wholly rewritten. The conclusion of the original work is, in general, confirmed: the existing party system is likely to be strengthened as public attention is again riveted on domestic economic issues, and the headlong trend of recent decades toward political independence and party disintegration reversed, at least for a time.

Dynamics of the Party System: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States.

One of the most momentous shifts in twentieth-century party politics was the Democratic Party's embrace of civil rights. Recent scholarship finds that this realignment began as early as the 1940s and traces it to pressure groups, especially organized labor. But such scholarship does not explain why labor, which was traditionally hostile to African Americans, began to work with them. Nor does it ascribe agency to the efforts of African American pressure groups. Focusing on the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), this article attempts to fill these gaps in the literature. It explains why civil rights and labor leaders reassessed their traditional animosities and began to work as allies in the Democratic Party. It further shows how pressure from the new black-blue alliance forced the national Democratic Party to stop straddling civil rights issues and to become instead the vehicle for promoting civil rights. NAACP and CIO leaders consciously sought to remake the Democratic Party by marginalizing conservative Southerners, and eventually succeeded.

http://professorbaylor.com/docs/First%20to%20the%20Party.pdf

First to the Party: The Group Origins of the Partisan Transformation on Civil Rights, 1940–1960

Author(s): Baylor, Christopher Andrew | Advisor(s): Zaller, John | Abstract: My dissertation shows how two marginal social groups - civil rights activists in the 1940s and religious conservatives in the 1980s - achieved many of their goals by becoming core players in a political party. In each case, the group faced opposition within its chosen party but allied with friendly partisans to marginalize opponents and nominate politicians committed to their priorities. Trying to influence office holders whom the groups had no hand in nominating proved ineffective: office holders would promise benefits but do nothing that displaced core supporters or median voters. Mobilizing nonpolitical groups for political purposes was the road to success. In both cases, marginal social groups rather than politicians drove the process, creating transformed parties that would stand up for rather than straddle the issues they cared about.

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First to the Party: The Group Origins of Party Transformation

Democratic Party Nominees and Platforms changed substantially on civil rights between the Second World War and the New Frontier. The party did not change on its own in response to majority opinion. Rather, strategic organizations such as labor unions and civil rights groups forced ambitious party leaders to choose between the party's liberal wing and Southern conservatives. Party leaders such as Truman, Stevenson, Kefauver, and Kennedy mainly catered to liberal groups, taking progressive stances on civil rights that disrupted the earlier equilibrium between North and South in the party. If African Americans had needed to wait until politicians or popular majorities supported their demands for basic rights, their path to representation would have been longer and more difficult than it was. Parties are strongly influenced by strategic coalitions who often support one another’s demands more than popular demands.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2303413_code2096876.pdf?abstractid=2303413&mirid=1&type=2

Twisting the Donkey's Tail: Transforming the Democratic Party on Race

Leading up to Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980, cultural conservatives felt excluded from major decisions in both parties. New developments in the Democratic Party, such as the increasing presence of women’s rights groups and teachers unions, created conflicts with party members with traditional religious beliefs. Estranged from the Democratic Party, evangelical Christians and culturally conservative pressure groups organized to influence Republican nominations. Despite the promises of a new voting base, many Republican politicians tried to block their influence, partly because they were reluctant to alienate existing voters and interests. A relatively unpopular group of cultural conservatives induced a large political party to address its concerns by mobilizing voters, issuing group-based appeals, and withholding votes. This study conflicts with other accounts by arguing that social group leaders, rather than politicians, were the most important “building blocs” on the assembly line of party transformation. Elected politicians, the public face of parties, impeded the efforts of underrepresented groups to change a party.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2136673_code914278.pdf?abstractid=2136673&mirid=1

Building Blocs: The Group Origins of Cultural Conservatism in the Republican Party

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