Secular Realignment in the U.S., 1937-2010: A Preliminary Analysis

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Event Sponsor
The Munro Lectureship Fund and The Lane Center
Speaker

David Brady, Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

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Speaker

Arjun Wilkins, Fourth Year Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University

 

 

Biography
David Brady holds the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Political Science in the Stanford Graduate School of Business and held the Morris M. Doyle Centennial Chair in Public Policy (emeritus). He is Deputy Director and Davies Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and has published seven books and over 100 papers in journals and books. Among his most recent publications are Revolving Gridlock: Politics and Policy from Carter to Bush II (Westview Press, 2006) and Red and Blue Nation? Characteristics and causes of America
 
Arjun Wilkins is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate, whose areas of interest include congressional elections, political partisanship, and quantitative methodology. His dissertation project examines changes in party identification in the U.S. from 1937 to the present and their impact on electoral outcomes.