Rum, Romanism, Representation, and Reform: Coalition Politics in Massachusetts, 1847-1853

Sweeney, Kevin

doi:10.1353/cwh.1976.0043

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“…Kousser(1973), McCraryetal. (1978, Baum (1978), Lichtman (1974Lichtman ( , 1976, and others (Shover and Kushma, 1978;Jones, 1972Jones, , 1974Sweeney, 1976) have accepted the invitation held out in the statistical literature of other fields that the techniques for estimating the relationships of variables within a single aggregation could conceivably be deployed across space and time.…”

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“…One such assumption in the case studies using least-squares regression analysis is that partisan behavior (Whig, Democratic, Republican, and other party voting) was not related to the proportion of the relevant party's supporters in the ecological unit, or that the behavior of partisans varied randomly across the ecological units under scrutiny. In building this assumption into their estimates, McCrary et al (1978), Sweeney (1976), and Baum (1978) follow Kousser's discussion of ecological regression:…”

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“…The left-hand side of Table 3, then, shows the estimated cell proportions obtained in applying the unmodified regression equations, following the method Goodman (1959) developed and Kousser (1973), Baum (1978), McCrary et al (1978, and Sweeney (1976) used to the aggregated data from 20 polling places in Sangamon and Fayette Counties, Illinois, for the presidential elections of 1840 and 1844. The right-hand side of Table 3 reports the actual cell proportions from individual performance for the same polling places as recorded in the poll lists.…”

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After more than a decade's impressive achievement in the “new” social history and the “new” political history, two distinct though related problems require us to reconsider the data appropriate to these inquiries. First, recent commentators (Foner, 1974; Formi-sano, 1976) have pointed to the relative failure of research in these areas to converge, a failure made more obvious in the light of the programmatic optimism of the 1960s which held out the prospect of an integrated approach to the social basis of politics and to the political implications of social structure. Second, there has been in recent years some acknowledgment by historians (see below) of the vexing question of inferences across levels of data, a matter central to other social sciences and particularly pressing for historians of electoral behavior.

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Political Maelstrom, 1854–1856

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Non-Sectional Issues in American Politics, 1830–1875

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After the Second World War, American historical writing came under the influence of a consensus school of thought. With occasional, explosive and largely unfruitful exceptions, the general run of American political experience was treated by this 'school' as sustaining a liberal state and as consisting of struggles for place between men of broadly similar ideological persuasions. Louis Hartz epitomized that interpretation in a memorable, if not entirely apposite, remark about the mid-nineteenth century: An instinct of friendship, as it were, was planted beneath the heroic surface of America's political conflict, so that the contenders in it, just as they were about to deliver their most smashing blows, fell into each other's arms. American politics was a romance in which the quarrel preceded the kiss. 1 Hartz and the Handlins produced detailed studies of state government economic policies in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania and Massachusetts which, while allowing for a certain amount of class antagonism, were devoid of any extended consideration of party politics. 2 Such consensus views retain considerable force; America has hardly experienced the ideological battles waged in western Europe since the late eighteenth century. But these views also suffer from an insensitivity to the past as it was actually lived. Perhaps every generation and every community did indeed reach a political consensus. 3 That happy end, however, was not achieved without intense and bitter conflict. 1 Louis Hartz, The Liberal tradition in America (New York, 1955), pp. 139-42. 2 Parties are hardly mentioned at all in important chapters of Louis Hartz, Economic policy and Democratic thought: Pennsylvania, /776-/S66 (Chicago, 1968 edn), chs. v, vii, and of Oscar

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Rum, Romanism, Representation, and Reform: Coalition Politics in Massachusetts, 1847-1853

Cited by 10 publications

References 5 publications

Individuals and Aggregates

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Political Maelstrom, 1854–1856

Non-Sectional Issues in American Politics, 1830–1875

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