This section features a cribsheet on the different theories covered in this course.
Cribsheet.| THEORIES | WHEN | SUDDEN/GRADUAL | ISSUES |
|---|
| Classic realignment theory | 1932 | Sudden | Varies: war, depression, populists |
| Issue evolution | 1964 | Gradual | Race |
| Carmines, McIver, Stimson - Unrealized Independents | 1960s | Gradual - 1960s - 3 factors change | Social welfare, economy, race, Vietnam War |
| Meffert et al. - Macropartisanship | 1980 | Gradual - permanent (shock, aftershocks) | |
| Abramowitz and Saunders | 1980-1994 | Gradual since 1980 - 1994 as culmination | Not race; whole set of issues |
| Jacobson | | Mass party alignment: Two-way causality | |
| Layman and Carsey | | Multidimensional; not issue displacement | Race later, not just during 1960s |