• List of Figure and Tables • Preface • Realignment and American Politics
• Realignment Theory and Its Critics
• A Century of Presidential Elections: Realignment in Historical Perspective
• Ideological Polarization and Party Change in American Politics
• From Party Decay to Party Renewal: Ideological Homogenization and the New Nominating Equilibrium in American Politics • The Two-Tier Party System: Critical Realignment
at the Top, Secular Realignment at the Bottom
• Realignment and the Study of American Elections
• Toward a Responsible-Party System? • Epilogue - Political Parties, Public Policy, and Postindustrial Democracy in America
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index