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- In Kevin Phillip's new book (The Politics of Rich and Poor, 1990)
- he argues that the Republican political cycle is coming to an end.
- If not in George Bush's defeat in 92, then the next term. He
- argued that the Republicans would come into their own in a book
- published in '67 called The Emerging Republican Majority. In '68
- Nixon was elected and it has been a Republican White House since
- with a "Carter blip" after Watergate. What Phillips argues is
- that there are these long cycles of power in American politics
- with "blips" or what he calls "minority interruptions" of oppo-
- sition parties in for a term or two. Phillips was the chief Re-
- publican strategist for the 1968 Presidential Campaign.
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- Cycles of American Presidential
- Politics since 1800
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- Initial period of Minority
- One Party Interruption
- Cycle Dominance
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- Jeffersonian Jefferson 1800-08
- Era Madison 1808-16 Quincy Adams 1824-28
- Democratic- Monroe 1816-24 (National-Republican)
- Republican (24 years)
- 1800-28
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- Jacksonian Jackson 1828-36 Harrison-Tyler (Whig)
- Era Van Buren 1836-40 1840-44
- Democratic Polk 1844-48 Taylor-Fillmore (Whig)
- 1828-1860 (16 of 20 Years) 1848-52
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- Civil War Lincoln-Johnson Cleveland 1884-88
- Republican 1860-68 1892-96
- 1860-96 Grant 1868-76 (No presidential candidate
- Hayes 1876-80 of either party won a
- Garfield-Arthur majority of the popular
- 1880-84 vote between 1876-92)
- (24 years)
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- Industrial McKinley-T.R. Roosevelt
- Republican 1896-1908
- 1896-1932 Taft 1908-1912 Wilson 1912-20
- Harding-Coolidge (Democratic)
- 1920-28
- Hoover 1928-1932
- (28 of 36 years)
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- New Deal Roosevelt-Truman Eisenhower (Republican)
- Democratic 1932-1952 1952-1960
- 1932-68 (20 years)
- Kennedy-Johnson
- 1960-68
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- Civil Nixon-Ford
- Disturbance 1968-76 Carter (Democrat)
- Republican Reagan-Bush
- 1968- ??? 1980-???
- .
- All of these six eras began with watershed elections in which
- (1) the previous incumbent party was defeated and (2) a new alignment
- of party presidential voting--resting on a new coalition--was
- established, which kept its essential shape for at least 20 years.
- Interestingly, all three Republican hegemonies have produced a
- "capitalist heyday" during the second half of the cycle.
-