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Puzzles and Confusions: Political Realignment in the 1980s
David G. Lawrence and Richard Fleisher look at conceptual and theoretical problems of realignment that limit our ability to understand the current electoral era. They conclude that the last twenty-five years have produced exactly the kinds of changes in outcomes that early realignment theorists looked for, but without evidence of the underlying changes in process that later theorists would expect.
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