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Fifth Party System

The Fifth Party System, also known as the New Deal Party System, is the era of American national politics that began with the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt to President of the United States in 1932. Roosevelt's implementation of his popular New Deal expanded the size and power of the federal government to an extent unprecedented in American history, and marked the beginning of political dominance by the Democratic Party that would remain largely unbroken until 1952. This period also began the ideological swapping of Democrats and Republicans into their modern versions, largely due to most Black voters switching from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party, while most conservative, White, usually southern Democrats shifted to the Republican Party as Democrats began increasingly prioritizing civil rights; this process accelerated into the 1960s.[1] The Fifth Party System followed the Fourth Party System, also known as the Progressive Era, and was itself followed by the Sixth Party System.

Fifth Party System

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United States presidential election results between 1932 and 1960 (Fifth Party System) and 1964 to 1976 (Dealignment). Blue shaded states usually voted for the Democratic Party, while red shaded states usually voted for the Republican Party.

History Edit

The onset of the Great Depression undermined the confidence of business in Republican promises of prosperity. The four consecutive elections of Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the Democrats virtually uncontested dominance. By the time of their sweeping victory in 1936, the Party had become dominated by the New Deal Coalition, remaining unchallenged until Dwight D. Eisenhower led Republicans to victory in 1952.[2]

Despite the power of the New Dealers, the conservative coalition, comprising northern Republicans and southern Democrats, generally controlled Congress from 1938 to 1964.[3] Nevertheless, the New Deal Coalition quickly grew to include a range of politicians unusual at the time for its diversity. Although still broadly consisting of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants who dominated the conservative coalition as well, New Dealers also grew to include new ethno-religious constituencies, such as Catholics and Jews, in addition to liberal White southerners, trade unionists, urban machinists, progressive intellectuals, populist farm groups, and even some ex-Republicans from the Northeast. These groups all became primary voting blocs of the Democratic Party that are still dominant in the modern era.[4]

The Republican Party underwent a dramatic ideological change of its own during this period, consisting of a conservative wing led by Senator Robert A. Taft and then Barry Goldwater, and a liberal wing led by Thomas Dewey, Nelson Rockefeller, Earl Warren, Jacob Javits, George W. Romney, William Scranton, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and Prescott Bush. The liberal wing experienced more electoral victories than the conservatives until the election of Richard Nixon in 1968, marking conservative Republicans' first major victory, as Eisenhower had been more aligned with the Party's liberal wing.[5][6] However, Nixon's implication in the Watergate scandal ruined him and badly damaged public perception of the Republican Party nationwide until 1980, when Ronald Reagan was elected President and successfully revitilized the Party, as well as effectively swept away the last remnants of its liberal wing, who had all switched to the Democratic Party by this time. For this reason, Reagan's election is widely regarded as marking the end of the Fifth Party System and the beginning of the Sixth Party System that arguably continues today.[7]

Analysis Edit

 
United States presidential election results between 1932 and 1976 (One possible span for the Fifth Party System).

The party system model with its numbering and demarcation of the historical systems was introduced in 1967 by Chambers and Burnham.[8] Much of the work published on the subject has been by political scientists explaining the events of their time as either the imminent breakup of the Fifth Party System, and the installation of a new one, or suggesting that this transition had already taken place some time ago.[9] The notion of an end to the Fifth Party system was particularly popular in the 1970s, with some specifying a culminating date as early as 1960.[10]

In Parties and Elections in America: The Electoral Process (2011), authors L. Sandy Maisel and Mark D. Brewer argue that the consensus among experts is that the Sixth System is underway based on American electoral politics since the 1960s:

Although most in the field now believe we are in a sixth party system, there is a fair amount of disagreement about how exactly we arrived at this new system and about its particular contours. Scholars do, however, agree that there has been significant change in American electoral politics since the 1960s.[11]

Opinions on when the Fifth Party System ended include the following: The elections of 1966 to 1968; the election of 1972; the 1980s, when both parties began to become more unified and partisan; and the 1990s, due to cultural divisions.[12][13][14][15]

Stephen Craig argues for the 1972 elections when Richard Nixon won a 49-state landslide. He notes that, "There seems to be consensus on the appropriate name for the sixth party system... Changes that occurred during the 1960s were so great and so pervasive that they cry out to be called a critical-election period. The new system of candidate-centered parties is so distinct and so portentous that one can no longer deny its existence or its character."[15]

The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History dates the start of the Sixth Party system in 1980, with the election of Reagan and a Republican Senate.[16] Arthur Paulson argues, "Whether electoral change since the 1960s is called 'realignment' or not, the 'sixth party system' emerged between 1964 and 1972."[17]

See also Edit

References Edit

  1. ^ Kersh, Rogan; Morone, James (2019). "By the People: Debating American Government". Oxford Handbooks Online: 406 (of 823).
  2. ^ Paul Kleppner et al. The Evolution of American Electoral Systems pp 219–225.
  3. ^ V.O. Key, Jr., Southern Politics in State and Nation (1949) ch 1.
  4. ^ Thomas Ferguson, "From normalcy to New Deal: Industrial structure, party competition, and American public policy in the Great Depression." International Organization 38.1 (1984): 41-94.
  5. ^ Lewis L. Gould, 1968: The Election That Changed America (2010).
  6. ^ Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2010)
  7. ^ Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan (2014)
  8. ^ William N. Chambers and Walter D. Burnham, eds. American Party Systems (1967).
  9. ^ e.g., Paulson (2006) argues that a decisive realignment took place in the late 1960s.
  10. ^ Aldrich (1999).
  11. ^ L. Sandy Maisel; Mark D. Brewer (2011). Parties and Elections in America: The Electoral Process (6th ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 42. ISBN 9781442207707.
  12. ^ "What is the sixth party system". 19 May 2011.
  13. ^ "The Sixth Party System in American Politics (1976–2012)".
  14. ^ Alex Copulsky (July 24, 2013). "Perpetual Crisis and the Sixth Party System".
  15. ^ a b Stephen C. Craig, Broken Contract? Changing Relationships between Americans and Their Government (1996) p. 105
  16. ^ Michael Kazin, et al. eds, The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History (2009) Vol. 2, pg. 288
  17. ^ Arthur Paulson, "Party change and the shifting dynamics in presidential nominations: The Lessons of 2008." Polity 41.3 (2009): 312-330, quoting page 314.

Further reading Edit

  • Allswang, John M. New Deal and American Politics (1978), statistical analysis of votes
  • Andersen, Kristi. The Creation of a Democratic Majority, 1928–1936 (1979), statistical analysis of polls
  • Bibby, John F. "Party Organizations, 1946–1996", in Byron E. Shafer, ed. Partisan Approaches to Postwar American Politics, (1998)
  • Cantril, Hadley and Mildred Strunk, eds. Public Opinion, 1935–1946 (1951). (A massive compilation of public opinion polls; online.)
  • Caraley, Demetrios James, "Three Trends Over Eight Presidential Elections, 1980–2008: Toward the Emergence of a Democratic Majority Realignment?", Political Science Quarterly, 124 (Fall 2009), 423–42
  • Fraser, Steve, and Gary Gerstle, eds. The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980 (1990); essays on broad topics.
  • Gallup, George. The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion, 1935–1971 (3 vol 1972)
  • Geer, John G. "New Deal Issues and the American Electorate, 1952–1988", Political Behavior, 14#1 (March 1992), pp. 45–65 JSTOR 586295.
  • Gershtenson, Joseph. "Mobilization Strategies of the Democrats and Republicans, 1956–2000", Political Research Quarterly Vol. 56, No. 3 (Sep. 2003), pp. 293–308. JSTOR 3219790.
  • Green, John C. and Paul S. Herrnson. (2000)
  • Hamby, Alonzo. Liberalism and Its Challengers: From F.D.R. to Bush (1992).
  • Jensen, Richard. "The Last Party System: Decay of Consensus, 1932–1980", in The Evolution of American Electoral Systems (Paul Kleppner et al. eds.) (1981) pp. 219–225.
  • Kazin, Michael. What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party (2022)excerpt
  • Ladd, Everett Carll, Jr., with Charles D. Hadley. Transformations of the American Party System: Political Coalitions from the New Deal to the 1970s 2nd ed. (1978).
  • Leuchtenburg, William E. In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to George W. Bush (2001)
  • Levine, Jeffrey; Carmines, Edward G.; and Huckfeldt, Robert. "The Rise of Ideology in the Post-New Deal Party System, 1972–1992". American Politics Quarterly (1997) 25(1): 19–34. ISSN 0044-7803. Argues that the social basis of the New Deal party system has weakened. The result is ideology shapes partisan support.
  • Manza, Jeff and Clem Brooks; Social Cleavages and Political Change: Voter Alignments and U.S. Party Coalitions. Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Manza, Jeff; "Political Sociological Models of the U.S. New Deal". Annual Review of Sociology, 2000. pp. 297+
  • Milkis, Sidney M. and Jerome M. Mileur, eds. The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism (2002)
  • Milkis, Sidney M. The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System Since the New Deal (1993)
  • Murphy, Paul L. ed. "The New Deal Realignment and the Fifth-Party System, 1928-1948" in Paul L. Murphy, ed., Political Parties in American History: 1890-present (vol 3. 1974) pp. 1109-1246.
  • Paulson, Arthur. Electoral Realignment and the Outlook for American Democracy (2006)
  • Pederson, William D. ed. A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt (Blackwell Companions to American History) (2011)
  • Riccards, Michael P., and Cheryl A. Flagg eds. Party Politics in the Age of Roosevelt: The Making of Modern America (2022) excerpt
  • Robinson, Edgar Eugene. They Voted for Roosevelt: The Presidential Vote, 1932–1944 (1947). Statistical tables of votes by county.
  • Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., ed. History of American Presidential Elections, 1789–2008 (2011). 3 vol and 11 vol editions; detailed analysis of each election, with primary documents; online v. 1. 1789–1824 – v. 2. 1824–1844 – v. 3. 1848–1868 – v. 4. 1872–1888 – v. 5. 1892–1908 – v. 6. 1912–1924 – v. 7. 1928–1940 – v. 8. 1944–1956 – v. 9. 1960–1968 – v. 10. 1972–1984 – v. 11. 1988–001
  • Shafer, Byron E. and Anthony J. Badger, eds. Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775–2000 (2001)
  • Sternsher, Bernard. "The New Deal Party System: A Reappraisal". Journal of Interdisciplinary History v.15#1 (Summer 1984), pp. 53–81. JSTOR 203594.
  • Sternsher, Bernard. "The Emergence of the New Deal Party System: A Problem in Historical Analysis of Voter Behavior". Journal of Interdisciplinary History, v.6#1 (Summer 1975), pp. 127–49. JSTOR 202828.
  • Sitkoff, Harvard. "Harry Truman and the Election of 1948: The Coming of Age of Civil Rights in American Politics". Journal of Southern History Vol. 37, No. 4 (Nov. 1971), pp. 597–616 JSTOR 2206548.
  • Sundquist, James L. Dynamics of the Party System: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States, (1983)

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The Fifth Party System also known as the New Deal Party System is the era of American national politics that began with the election of Franklin D Roosevelt to President of the United States in 1932 Roosevelt s implementation of his popular New Deal expanded the size and power of the federal government to an extent unprecedented in American history and marked the beginning of political dominance by the Democratic Party that would remain largely unbroken until 1952 This period also began the ideological swapping of Democrats and Republicans into their modern versions largely due to most Black voters switching from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party while most conservative White usually southern Democrats shifted to the Republican Party as Democrats began increasingly prioritizing civil rights this process accelerated into the 1960s 1 The Fifth Party System followed the Fourth Party System also known as the Progressive Era and was itself followed by the Sixth Party System Fifth Party System Fourth 1932 1980 Sixth United States presidential election results between 1932 and 1960 Fifth Party System and 1964 to 1976 Dealignment Blue shaded states usually voted for the Democratic Party while red shaded states usually voted for the Republican Party Contents 1 History 2 Analysis 3 See also 4 References 5 Further readingHistory EditThe onset of the Great Depression undermined the confidence of business in Republican promises of prosperity The four consecutive elections of Franklin D Roosevelt delivered the Democrats virtually uncontested dominance By the time of their sweeping victory in 1936 the Party had become dominated by the New Deal Coalition remaining unchallenged until Dwight D Eisenhower led Republicans to victory in 1952 2 Despite the power of the New Dealers the conservative coalition comprising northern Republicans and southern Democrats generally controlled Congress from 1938 to 1964 3 Nevertheless the New Deal Coalition quickly grew to include a range of politicians unusual at the time for its diversity Although still broadly consisting of the White Anglo Saxon Protestants who dominated the conservative coalition as well New Dealers also grew to include new ethno religious constituencies such as Catholics and Jews in addition to liberal White southerners trade unionists urban machinists progressive intellectuals populist farm groups and even some ex Republicans from the Northeast These groups all became primary voting blocs of the Democratic Party that are still dominant in the modern era 4 The Republican Party underwent a dramatic ideological change of its own during this period consisting of a conservative wing led by Senator Robert A Taft and then Barry Goldwater and a liberal wing led by Thomas Dewey Nelson Rockefeller Earl Warren Jacob Javits George W Romney William Scranton Henry Cabot Lodge Jr and Prescott Bush The liberal wing experienced more electoral victories than the conservatives until the election of Richard Nixon in 1968 marking conservative Republicans first major victory as Eisenhower had been more aligned with the Party s liberal wing 5 6 However Nixon s implication in the Watergate scandal ruined him and badly damaged public perception of the Republican Party nationwide until 1980 when Ronald Reagan was elected President and successfully revitilized the Party as well as effectively swept away the last remnants of its liberal wing who had all switched to the Democratic Party by this time For this reason Reagan s election is widely regarded as marking the end of the Fifth Party System and the beginning of the Sixth Party System that arguably continues today 7 Analysis Edit nbsp United States presidential election results between 1932 and 1976 One possible span for the Fifth Party System The party system model with its numbering and demarcation of the historical systems was introduced in 1967 by Chambers and Burnham 8 Much of the work published on the subject has been by political scientists explaining the events of their time as either the imminent breakup of the Fifth Party System and the installation of a new one or suggesting that this transition had already taken place some time ago 9 The notion of an end to the Fifth Party system was particularly popular in the 1970s with some specifying a culminating date as early as 1960 10 In Parties and Elections in America The Electoral Process 2011 authors L Sandy Maisel and Mark D Brewer argue that the consensus among experts is that the Sixth System is underway based on American electoral politics since the 1960s Although most in the field now believe we are in a sixth party system there is a fair amount of disagreement about how exactly we arrived at this new system and about its particular contours Scholars do however agree that there has been significant change in American electoral politics since the 1960s 11 Opinions on when the Fifth Party System ended include the following The elections of 1966 to 1968 the election of 1972 the 1980s when both parties began to become more unified and partisan and the 1990s due to cultural divisions 12 13 14 15 Stephen Craig argues for the 1972 elections when Richard Nixon won a 49 state landslide He notes that There seems to be consensus on the appropriate name for the sixth party system Changes that occurred during the 1960s were so great and so pervasive that they cry out to be called a critical election period The new system of candidate centered parties is so distinct and so portentous that one can no longer deny its existence or its character 15 The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History dates the start of the Sixth Party system in 1980 with the election of Reagan and a Republican Senate 16 Arthur Paulson argues Whether electoral change since the 1960s is called realignment or not the sixth party system emerged between 1964 and 1972 17 See also EditCivil rights movement 1896 1954 Conservative coalition New Deal coalition Party systems in the United States Politics of the Southern United States Presidency of Franklin D Roosevelt first and second terms Presidency of Franklin D Roosevelt third and fourth terms Presidency of Harry S Truman Presidency of Dwight D Eisenhower Presidency of John F Kennedy Presidency of Lyndon B Johnson Presidency of Richard Nixon Presidency of Gerald Ford Presidency of Jimmy Carter Reagan era Southern StrategyReferences Edit Kersh Rogan Morone James 2019 By the People Debating American Government Oxford Handbooks Online 406 of 823 Paul Kleppner et al The Evolution of American Electoral Systems pp 219 225 V O Key Jr Southern Politics in State and Nation 1949 ch 1 Thomas Ferguson From normalcy to New Deal Industrial structure party competition and American public policy in the Great Depression International Organization 38 1 1984 41 94 Lewis L Gould 1968 The Election That Changed America 2010 Rick Perlstein Nixonland The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America 2010 Rick Perlstein The Invisible Bridge The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan 2014 William N Chambers and Walter D Burnham eds American Party Systems 1967 e g Paulson 2006 argues that a decisive realignment took place in the late 1960s Aldrich 1999 L Sandy Maisel Mark D Brewer 2011 Parties and Elections in America The Electoral Process 6th ed Rowman amp Littlefield p 42 ISBN 9781442207707 What is the sixth party system 19 May 2011 The Sixth Party System in American Politics 1976 2012 Alex Copulsky July 24 2013 Perpetual Crisis and the Sixth Party System a b Stephen C Craig Broken Contract Changing Relationships between Americans and Their Government 1996 p 105 Michael Kazin et al eds The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History 2009 Vol 2 pg 288 Arthur Paulson Party change and the shifting dynamics in presidential nominations The Lessons of 2008 Polity 41 3 2009 312 330 quoting page 314 Further reading EditAllswang John M New Deal and American Politics 1978 statistical analysis of votes Andersen Kristi The Creation of a Democratic Majority 1928 1936 1979 statistical analysis of polls Bibby John F Party Organizations 1946 1996 in Byron E Shafer ed Partisan Approaches to Postwar American Politics 1998 Cantril Hadley and Mildred Strunk eds Public Opinion 1935 1946 1951 A massive compilation of public opinion polls online Caraley Demetrios James Three Trends Over Eight Presidential Elections 1980 2008 Toward the Emergence of a Democratic Majority Realignment Political Science Quarterly 124 Fall 2009 423 42 Fraser Steve and Gary Gerstle eds The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order 1930 1980 1990 essays on broad topics Gallup George The Gallup Poll Public Opinion 1935 1971 3 vol 1972 Geer John G New Deal Issues and the American Electorate 1952 1988 Political Behavior 14 1 March 1992 pp 45 65 JSTOR 586295 Gershtenson Joseph Mobilization Strategies of the Democrats and Republicans 1956 2000 Political Research Quarterly Vol 56 No 3 Sep 2003 pp 293 308 JSTOR 3219790 Green John C and Paul S Herrnson Party Development in the Twentieth Century Laying the Foundations for Responsible Party Government 2000 Hamby Alonzo Liberalism and Its Challengers From F D R to Bush 1992 Jensen Richard The Last Party System Decay of Consensus 1932 1980 in The Evolution of American Electoral Systems Paul Kleppner et al eds 1981 pp 219 225 Kazin Michael What It Took to Win A History of the Democratic Party 2022 excerpt Ladd Everett Carll Jr with Charles D Hadley Transformations of the American Party System Political Coalitions from the New Deal to the 1970s 2nd ed 1978 Leuchtenburg William E In the Shadow of FDR From Harry Truman to George W Bush 2001 Levine Jeffrey Carmines Edward G and Huckfeldt Robert The Rise of Ideology in the Post New Deal Party System 1972 1992 American Politics Quarterly 1997 25 1 19 34 ISSN 0044 7803 Argues that the social basis of the New Deal party system has weakened The result is ideology shapes partisan support Manza Jeff and Clem Brooks Social Cleavages and Political Change Voter Alignments and U S Party Coalitions Oxford University Press 1999 Manza Jeff Political Sociological Models of the U S New Deal Annual Review of Sociology 2000 pp 297 Milkis Sidney M and Jerome M Mileur eds The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism 2002 Milkis Sidney M The President and the Parties The Transformation of the American Party System Since the New Deal 1993 Murphy Paul L ed The New Deal Realignment and the Fifth Party System 1928 1948 in Paul L Murphy ed Political Parties in American History 1890 present vol 3 1974 pp 1109 1246 Paulson Arthur Electoral Realignment and the Outlook for American Democracy 2006 Pederson William D ed A Companion to Franklin D Roosevelt Blackwell Companions to American History 2011 Riccards Michael P and Cheryl A Flagg eds Party Politics in the Age of Roosevelt The Making of Modern America 2022 excerpt Robinson Edgar Eugene They Voted for Roosevelt The Presidential Vote 1932 1944 1947 Statistical tables of votes by county Schlesinger Arthur Jr ed History of American Presidential Elections 1789 2008 2011 3 vol and 11 vol editions detailed analysis of each election with primary documents online v 1 1789 1824 v 2 1824 1844 v 3 1848 1868 v 4 1872 1888 v 5 1892 1908 v 6 1912 1924 v 7 1928 1940 v 8 1944 1956 v 9 1960 1968 v 10 1972 1984 v 11 1988 001 Shafer Byron E and Anthony J Badger eds Contesting Democracy Substance and Structure in American Political History 1775 2000 2001 Sternsher Bernard The New Deal Party System A Reappraisal Journal of Interdisciplinary History v 15 1 Summer 1984 pp 53 81 JSTOR 203594 Sternsher Bernard The Emergence of the New Deal Party System A Problem in Historical Analysis of Voter Behavior Journal of Interdisciplinary History v 6 1 Summer 1975 pp 127 49 JSTOR 202828 Sitkoff Harvard Harry Truman and the Election of 1948 The Coming of Age of Civil Rights in American Politics Journal of Southern History Vol 37 No 4 Nov 1971 pp 597 616 JSTOR 2206548 Sundquist James L Dynamics of 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