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- Title
PARTY REALIGNMENT AND PRESIDENTIAL TENURES: SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SIX-YEAR TERM PROPOSAL.
- Authors
Nice, David C.
- Abstract
The president is widely regarded as the leader of his political party, but political parties in the U.S. are, in many circumstances difficult to lead. The different components of parties have a substantial degree of autonomy with the result that a president has little formal control over most of his party. Concerted action, when it occurs, results from a sense of shared purpose or shared fate rather than the issuance of presidential directives. The realignment literature indicates that a sense of shared purpose is most likely to be found during and shortly after a party realignment. Realignment creates a firm base of party loyalties in the electorate and elite coalitions with agreement on policies.
- Subjects
UNITED States; POLITICAL leadership; POLITICAL parties; COALITION governments; PRESIDENTS of the United States; PRACTICAL politics
- Publication
Policy Studies Journal, 1984, Vol 13, Issue 2, p295
- ISSN
0190-292X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1541-0072.1984.tb00341.x