Article
Wars and American Politics
Perspectives on Politics
(2005)
Abstract
Wars have been underexamined as causal factors in American political history. The nation's freestanding hot wars seem to have generated at least four kinds of major effects: policy changes of lasting consequence, new issue regimes, durable changes in electoral alignments, and durable changes in party ideologies. Considered here are the War of 1812, the War with Mexico, the Civil War, World War I, and World War II.
Keywords
- Political Science,
- American Politics,
- War,
- Contingency,
- Congress,
- Presidency,
- American Political Development
Disciplines
Publication Date
September, 2005
DOI
10.1017/S1537592705050309
Citation Information
David R. Mayhew. "Wars and American Politics" Perspectives on Politics Vol. 3 Iss. 3 (2005) p. 473 - 493 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david-mayhew/16/