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  title info:
    title: Clinton's elections
    sub title: 1992, 1996, and the birth of a new era of governance
  name:
    name part: Nelson, Michael
    name part: 1949-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ksu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 326 pages : illustrations : 24 cm.
  abstract: Bill Clinton's elections in 1992 and 1996 were a watershed moment in Democratic history. Not only was he the first Democrat to win two terms since Franklin D. Roosevelt, and one of only four Democrats in history to do so, but he also broke a Republican winning streak that involved five of the six previous elections. Prior to Clinton's win, the Republicans held the White House while Democrats held the House of Representatives. Subsequently, however, Democrats won the popular presidential vote in all but one election (2004), while Republicans largely held the House. In 1994, the Republicans took control of Congress for the first time since 1952. Clinton's nomination and presidency helped to revive the Democratic Party and reshaped the political landscape, but as Michael Nelson argues, it also ushered in a new era of partisan antagonism and divided, dysfunctional government. The center increasingly vanished, replaced by stalemate and polarization. In the midst of these partisan tensions, Nelson's study explores the rise of a new independent voice in the form of Ross Perot. Clinton's Elections traces the story of Bill Clinton's dominant role in the American political landscape from his emergence as a potential nominee in 1988 to his reelection in 1996 and his role in the election campaigns of 2000, 2008 and 2016. What emerges is a picture of a savvy politician who was able to operate effectively in the midst of divided government and made strategic moves to consolidate power and secure future victories. But his successful efforts did not last. His presidency became embroiled in scandal and impeachment, and partisan hostilities only grew more strident, resulting in our current era of de facto divided government.
  table of contents: The View from 1988: The Cast of Democrats Forms -- The View from 1988: The Cast of Republicans Forms -- Divided Government: George Bush and the Democrats (and Ross Perot), 1989- -- The Battle for the Republican Nomination and the Rise and (Temporary) Fall of Ross Perot -- The Battle for the Democratic Nomination -- Uniting Government: The General Election for President and Congress -- Redividing Government: Bill Clinton and Congress, 1993-1995 -- The Election of 1996 -- Bill Clinton and a New Era of De Facto Divided Government.
  note: Michael Nelson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Clinton, Bill
      name part: 1946-
  subject:
    topic: Presidents
    geographic: United States
    topic: Elections
    temporal: 1992
  subject:
    topic: Presidents
    geographic: United States
    topic: Elections
    temporal: 1996
  subject:
    topic: Democratization
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1993-2001
  classification: E886 .N45 2020
  classification: 973.929092
  related item:
    title info:
      title: American presidential elections
  identifier: 9780700629176
  identifier: 0700629173
  identifier: 9780700629183
  identifier: 2019034813
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190812
    record change date: 20200729072403.0
    record identifier: in00004095651