POLS 299: The South in American Politics (Klinghard): Books, E-books, and Journals

The 23 essays included in this book present a definitive view of the factors that contribute to the South's distinctive politics examining these factors in the context of the region's political development since World War II.

Feldman invited contributions by scholars from the US and overseas to better understand the essence as well as the variety of the South's perceived or real relationship with the federal governmen

The transformation of the American South, from authoritarian to democratic rule, is the most important political development since World War II. It has re-sorted voters into parties, remapped presidential elections, and helped polarize Congress. Most important, it is the final step in America's democratization. Paths Out of Dixie illuminates this sea change by analyzing the democratization experiences of Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina.

Perman surveys the entire span of southern political history from 1800 to the present.

This is a carefully executed study of the effects of federal economic policy in transforming the American South from the time of the New Deal to the present. Decrying the South's economic backwardness and political conservativism, the Roosevelt Administration launched a series of aggressive programs to reorder the Southern economy. A generation of young liberal Southerners entered the national government to preside over these policies. After 1950, however, Keynesianism replaced New Deal reform as the mainstay of national economic policy, and the national security state supplanted the social we.

A handbook of American Presidential Election Statistics from 1920-2000 (3 volumes)

1789-1968 (4 Volumes)

1956-2020 (34 volumes)

First published during the Eisenhower administration, researchers have long depended on America Votes for its consistent and detailed presentation of election data from across disparate state election offices.

2013-2020 (3 volumes)