This ain't your daddy's dixie: explaining partisan change in southern U.S. House elections, 1988-2004

I seek to explain partisan change in southern U.S. House races from 1988 to 2004. Partisan change over this span of elections is characterized by the ascendancy of the Republican party. I contend that the Republican takeover of the southern House delegation is due to a combination of three interrelated factors: (1) increasing Republican identification among white southerners, (2) redistricting, and (3) the emergence of viable Republican candidates. In the extant literature, these factors are often analyzed separately, but these factors are complementary and each is necessary to account for partisan change in southern congressional elections. I test my explanation for partisan change by constructing micro- and macro-level statistical models that assess the partisan electoral effects of structural and behavioral factors in southern U.S. House elections.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Government

Grantor

The University of Texas at Austin

Year dc:date.issued

2005

Author dc:creator

• McKee, Seth Charles

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Shaw, Daron R., 1966-

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Identifier

b61122701

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/2291