The Gilded Age, 1878–1900

Cherny, Robert W.; Barney, William L.

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“…As the Reconstruction era came to an end, electoral competition between the parties became tight (Kernell, 1977). The Republican Party, as the ‘party of Lincoln’, painfully came to realize that the electioneering slogan of ‘waving the bloody shirt’ was no longer effective (Cherny, 1997; Foner, 1990). The ‘Grand Old Party’ (GOP) dominance in the post-Civil War era quickly vanished as the Democratic Party rapidly recovered its electoral coalitions in the South.…”

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Wedge-issue dynamics and party position shifts

Jungkun

2010

Party Politics

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Even when the stakes of party-building are high, political parties often find their members divided over a key policy position. In post-Reconstruction America, the hot-button issue of excluding Chinese immigrant workers strengthened Democratic cohesion while splitting the ‘party of Lincoln’. Previous research has not completely investigated the role of party competition and cohesiveness in paving the way for passage of the Chinese exclusion laws. In this investigation of the legislative politics of banning the Chinese from 1879 to 1882, it is found that cross-pressured members sometimes facilitate party transformation. The evidence demonstrates that partisan responses to potential wedge issues are a previously unnoticed source of explanation of eventual party position changes.

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Wedge-issue dynamics and party position shifts

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The Gilded Age, 1878–1900

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