Cultural Pattern in American Politics

Robert Kelley is Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara.

...a major interpretive statement that all scholars and teachers will have to consider carefully. -- Keith Ian Polakoff, THE HISTORY TEACHER With this book, ethnocultural history has come of age. -- Murray Friedman, COMMENTARY ...enriches our understanding of American political life. -- Linda Kerber, THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION Robert Kelley has audaciously undertaken to synthesize recent scholarship emphasizing ethnocultural determinants of voting behavior with the older scholarship emphasizing economic issues. It is an impressive effort, enriched by the transatlantic comparative perspective...He has digested practically everything useful in the enormous literature. -- Charles Sellers, THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Robert Kelley has audaciously undertaken to synthesize recent scholarship emphasizing ethnocultural determinants of voting behavior with the older scholarship emphasizing economic issues. It is an impressive effort, enriched by the transatlantic comparative perspective...He has digested practically everything useful in the enormous literature. -- Charles Sellers, THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW ...a major interpretive statement that all scholars and teachers will have to consider carefully. -- Keith Ian Polakoff, THE HISTORY TEACHER With this book, ethnocultural history has come of age. -- Murray Friedman, COMMENTARY ...enriches our understanding of American political life. -- Linda Kerber, THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION