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An attempt to put Chicago's 1983 election of Harold Washington in the "necessary historical context." Historian Kleppner's thesis is that the single dramatic event - the election of Chicago's first black mayor - must be seen as the climax of a long, slow process. Kleppner goes back to 1870 to demonstrate how the city's ethnic diversity played a key role in its politics. He quickly returns to the era of Richard Daley and examines, with solid st...

?Especially useful is Samuel P. Hays' brilliant concluding essay that is at once a critical assessment of the historical state of the art and a presentation of a set of new research ideas that must now be addressed. Recommended for academic libraries.?-Library Journal

Kleppner's study represents an attempt to move beyond the older voting studies by questioning their underlying assumptions and analyzing the changes that occurred at the beginning of the twentieth century. Rejecting the view that partisan identification is a nearly unchangeable psychological attachment, he argues that twentieth century voters were more likely to respond to short-term factors--fluctuations in the economy, charismatic candidiate...

This analysis of the contours and social bases of mass voting behavior in the United States over the course of the third electoral era, from 1853 to 1892, provides a deep and rich understanding of the ways in which ethnoreligious values shaped party combat in the late nineteenth century. It was this uniquely American mode of "political confessionals" that underlay the distinctive characteristics of the era's electoral universe.