At the dawn of a new century the desire for political change was growing in the United States. Many Americans believed that democracy could be improved, that politics could be freed from the grasp of the corrupt political machines and...

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At some unknown moment within the next seven years, the Latino population in the United States will surpass 40 million, and the nation will cross a profound political threshold. Across that transformation lies a national polity where, for the first time, Latinos will...

The Islamic Republic of Iran has survived for over two decades. Among other challenges, it has had to overcome a punishing 95-month war with neighboring Iraq, the active hostility of the world's unrivaled superpower, and an internal political and economic situation that has...

The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan, by John Ehrman. Yale University Press, 296 pages, $27.50.Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980's, by Gil Troy. Princeton University Press, 417 pages, $29.95. Although their desire to honor him still stops on a dime,...

This essay describes the American Electorate and its preferences in political movements. Characteristics of Democrats, Republicans and Independent Loyalists are outlined. The changes in preferences are described and explained as well as the possible causes of these changes.

The reasons for the development of the second-party system in the United States.