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The Democratic Majority and the 2016 American Presidential Election: Feminist Political Behavior Across Multiple Axes of Identity

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The Democrats Loss of the White Working Class: Another Look at the Evidence

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The Stuck Electorate: Polarization, Nationalization, and the Consolidation of Party in the Trump Era

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Inviting the Populists to the Party: Populist Appeals in Presidential Primaries

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After the White House: The Politics of the Postpresidency

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Alaska, Hawaii, and the Congressional Politics of Statehood, 1947–1959

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Black Leadership Matters: An Organizational and Political Comparison of Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movement

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We’ll stop having debates: How party organizations strategically invoke evidence

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Power Plus Persuasion: The Anatomy of Kennedy’s Housing Order

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After the ballot box: How explicit racist appeals damage constituents views of their representation in government

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Elite Leadership, People of Mexican Origin, and Civil Rights: Dennis Chavez and the Politics of Fair Employment

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Extraordinary Isolation? Woodrow Wilson and the Civil Rights Movement

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Government for the People: A Reply to the Symposium

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Critical Elections, Partisan Realignment, and Long-Term Electoral Change in American Politics

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United States Communist History Bibliography 2016, and a Selective Bibliography of Non-U.S. Communism and Communism-Related Theory

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Politicians, Interest Groups, and Next Steps in the Study of American Political Parties as Institutions

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Carpetbaggers, Confederates, and Richard Nixon: The 1960 Presidential Election, Historical Memory, and the Republican Southern Strategy

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Southern Republicans in Congress during the pre-Reagan era: An exploration

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Courting Science: Litigation, Expertise, and Scientific Investment in the Christian Conservative Legal Movement

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