Editing Political realignment (section)

==Further reading==
* Wagner, Matthew L., and Paul White Jr. ''Parties and Democratic Transitions: The Decline of Dominant and Hegemonic Parties'' (2014).

===Europe===
{{refbegin}}
* Heppell, Tim. "The conservative party leadership of David Cameron: Heresthetics and the realignment of British Politics." ''British Politics'' 8#3 (2013): 260–284.
* Hutcheson, Derek S. "The Seismology Of Psephology: 'Earthquake Elections' From The Folketing To The Dáil." ''Representation'' 47#4 (2011): 471–488.
* Keil, Silke, and Oscar Gabriel. "The Baden-Württemberg State Election of 2011: A Political Landslide." ''German Politics'' 21.2 (2012): 239–246.
* White, Timothy J. "The 2011 Irish General Election: Critical, Realigning, Deviating, or Something Else?." ''Irish Journal of Public Policy'' 3.2 (2011).
{{refend}}

===Canada===
{{refbegin}}
* Johnston, Richard. "Alignment, Realignment, and Dealignment in Canada: The View From Above." ''Canadian Journal of Political Science'' 46.02 (2013): 245–271.
* Koop, Royce, and Amanda Bittner. "Parties and Elections after 2011 The Fifth Canadian Party System?." ''Parties, Elections, and the Future of Canadian Politics'' (2013): 308+
* LeDuc, Lawrence. "The federal election in Canada, May 2011." ''Electoral Studies'' 31.1 (2012): 239–242.
*  Rawson, Michael F. "Forecasting realignment: An analysis of the 1993 Canadian federal election' (PhD dissertation, The University of Western Ontario (Canada) ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  1997. MQ28648).
{{refend}}

===United States===
{{refbegin}}
* Abramowitz, Alan I. and Kyle L. Saunders. 1998. "Ideological Realignment in the US Electorate." Journal of Politics 60(3):634–652.
* Aldrich, John H. 1995. Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Party Politics in America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
* Aldrich, John H. 2000. "Southern Politics in State and Nation". ''Journal of Politics'' 62: 643–670.
* Bullock, Charles S. III, Donna R. Hoffman and Ronald Keith Gaddie, "Regional Variations in the Realignment of American Politics, 1944–2004", ''Social Science Quarterly'' v 87#3 (Sept 2006) pp 494+; Finds both critical and secular realignments at work with different patterns in each region since 1944. Stresses the collapse of Republican hegemony in the Northeast and Pacific West. 1994 election was a realigning election.
* Burnham, Walter Dean. ''Critical elections and the mainsprings of American politics'' (1970) ({{ISBN|0-393-09962-8}})
* Burnham, Walter Dean. "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1171128 Periodization Schemes and 'Party Systems': The 'System of 1896' as a Case in Point]", ''Social Science History'', Vol. 10, No. 3, (Autumn, 1986), pp.&nbsp;263–314.
* Chambers, William Nisbet, and Walter Dean Burnham, eds. ''American Party Systems: Stages of Political Development'' (1968) ({{ISBN|0-19-631662-6}})
* Carmines, Edward G., and James A. Stimson. 1989. ''Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of American Politics''. ({{ISBN|0-691-07802-5}})
* [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98202267 Clubb, Jerome M., William H. Flanigan, Nancy H. Zingale. ''Partisan Realignment: Voters, Parties, and Government in American History'' (1990)]
* Cunningham, Sean P. ''Cowboy Conservatism: Texas and the Rise of the Modern Right'' (2010)
*DiStefano, Frank J. ''The Next Realignment: Why America's Parties are Crumbling and What Happens Next'' (2019). ({{ISBN|9781633885080}})
*  Frank, Michael William. "Aggregate electoral change in United States presidential elections, 1828--1992: A reevaluation of realignment theory" (PhD dissertation,  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  1996. 9712270).
* Gerring, John. ''Party Ideologies in America, 1828–1996'' 1998. ({{ISBN|0-521-78590-1}})
* Gienap, William E. ''The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852–1856'' 1987. ({{ISBN|0-19-505501-2}})
* Holt, Michael F. "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2702012 The New Political History and the Civil War Era]", ''Reviews in American History'', Vol. 13, No. 1 (Mar., 1985), pp.&nbsp;60–69
* [[Richard J. Jensen|Jensen, Richard J.]] ''Grass Roots Politics: Parties, Issues, and Voters, 1854–1983''. Westport: Greenwood, 1983. ({{ISBN|0-8371-6382-X}})
* [[Richard J. Jensen|Jensen, Richard]]. ''The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888–1896'' 1971. ({{ISBN|0-226-39825-0}})
* Jenkins, Shannon, Douglas D. Roscoe, John P. Frendreis, and Alan R. Gitelson. 2006. "Ten Years After the Revolution: 1994 and Partisan Control of Government" in Green and Coffey, ''The State of the Parties'', 5th ed. ({{ISBN|0-7425-5322-1}})
* Key, V.O. "A Theory of Critical Elections". ''The Journal of Politics'', 1955. 17: 3–18.
* Kleppner, Paul ed. ''Evolution of American Electoral Systems'' (1981) ({{ISBN|0-313-21379-8}})
* Ladd Jr., Everett Carll with Charles D. Hadley. ''Transformations of the American Party System: Political Coalitions from the New Deal to the 1970s'' 2d ed. (1978). ({{ISBN|0-393-09065-5}})
* Lichtman, Allan J. "Critical elections theory and the reality of American presidential politics, 1916–40". ''American Historical Review'' (1976) 81: 317–348. in JSTOR
* Lichtman, Allan J. "Political Realignment and 'Ethnocultural' Voting in Late Nineteenth Century America", ''Journal of Social History'', Vol. 16, No. 3 (Spring, 1983), pp.&nbsp;55–82 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3786930 in JSTOR]
* Manza, Jeff and Clem Brooks; ''Social Cleavages and Political Change: Voter Alignments and U.S. Party Coalitions'', Oxford University Press, 1999 ({{ISBN|0-19-829492-1}})
* McCormick, Richard P. ''The Second American Party System: Party Formation in the Jacksonian Era'' 1966. ({{ISBN|0-393-00680-8}})
* [[L. Sandy Maisel|Maisel, L. Sandy]], ed. ''Political Parties and Elections in the United States: An Encyclopedia''. 1991. ({{ISBN|0-8240-7975-2}})
* Mayhew, David R. ''Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre''. 2004. ({{ISBN|0-300-09336-5}})
* Paulson, Arthur. ''Electoral Realignment and the Outlook for American Democracy'' (2006) ({{ISBN|1-55553-667-0}})
* Pierce, Patrick Alan. "Partisan Realignment and Political Change: A Study of Four American States (New York, Iowa, California, Virginia) (PhD dissertation, Rutgers U. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1984. 8424146). 
* Rosenof, Theodore. ''Realignment: The Theory That Changed the Way We Think about American Politics'' (2003) ({{ISBN|0-7425-3105-8}})
* Rapoport, Ronald and Walter Stone. 2005. ''Three's a Crowd: The Dynamic of Third Parties, Ross Perot, and Republican Resurgence''. ({{ISBN|0-472-11453-0}})
* Saunders, Kyle L. and Alan I. Abramowitz. 2004. "Ideological Realignment and Active Partisans in the American Electorate". American Politics Research 32(3):285–309.
* Shafer, Byron (ed.). 1991. "Critical realignment: Dead or alive?" in ''The End of Realignment'' (University of Wisconsin Press)
* Schlozman, Daniel. ''When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History'' (Princeton University Press, 2015) xiv, 267 pp.
* Shafer, Byron E. and Anthony J. Badger, eds. ''Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775–2000'' (2001) ({{ISBN|0-7006-1139-8}})
* Sternsher, Bernard. "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/203594 The New Deal Party System: A Reappraisal]", ''Journal of Interdisciplinary History'' v.15#1 (Summer, 1984), pp.&nbsp;53–81
* [[Joel H. Silbey|Silbey, Joel]]. ''The American Political Nation, 1838–1893''. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. ({{ISBN|0-8047-2338-9}})
* Sundquist, James L. ''Dynamics of the Party System: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States'' (1983) [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=29223022 online]
* {{cite book|last=Trende|first=Sean|author-link=Sean Trende|title=The Lost Majority: Why the Future of Government Is Up for Grabs–and Who Will Take It|year=2012|publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]]|isbn=978-0230116467|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/lostmajoritywhyf0000tren}}
* Velasco, Jesús. "[http://www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/namerica/v12n2/2448-7228-namerica-12-02-00215.pdf Walter Dean Burnham: An American Clockmaker]". ''Norteamérica'' 12.2 (2017): 215–249. Looks at debates over realignment theory
{{refend}}