Alabama: Maturing Party Competition

Authors

  • Patrick R. Cotter
  • Samuel H. Fisher
  • Patrick Fuller

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.2003.24.0.21-34

Abstract

After years of a virtual Democratic monopoly over its electoral politics, Alabama has become a politically competitive state. Reflecting this political transformation, the results of the 1991 and 2001 Grassroots Party Activists surveys show that Alabama’s Democratic and Republican party activists are increasingly distinguishable in their social characteristics, ideological stands, and policy positions. Also accompanying the state’s new political competitiveness has been the development of party organizations that are now roughly balanced in terms of their strength and capabilities.

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2003-04-01

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Vol. 24: Spring 2003

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