A study of political and sectional voting alignments in the United States Senate, 1921-1929

<p>Several common and casual assertions about "twenties" politics should come under critical reanalysis, including traditional descriptions of the extent and character of party division. The usual historical generalization is that, although conservativism was the predominant political attitude, both parties were fragmented by sectional and ideological struggles. As a con­ sequence there was a breakdown in the party system. This dissertation tests this conclusion through an examination of voting patterns in the United States Senate from the 67th through the 70th Congress (1921-29), Virtually every politi­cal history of the era touches upon Senate voting align­ments, but there is no extant study with the scope, structure, and methodology of this dissertation. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Year dc:date.available

1968

Author dc:creator

• O'Brien, Patrick Gene

Contributors dc:contributor

• Alfred H. Kelly
• Richard D. Miles

• United States Senate
• Conservatism
• 1920s
• Political History
• United States History

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/954

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wayne.edu:oa_dissertations-1953