Access Type
Open Access Dissertation
Date of Award
1968
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Department
History
First Advisor
Alfred H. Kelly
Second Advisor
Richard D. Miles
Third Advisor
Richard D. Miles
Abstract
Several common and casual assertions about "twenties" politics should come under critical reanalysis, including traditional descriptions of the extent and character of party division. The usual historical generalization is that, although conservativism was the predominant political attitude, both parties were fragmented by sectional and ideological struggles. As a con sequence there was a breakdown in the party system. This dissertation tests this conclusion through an examination of voting patterns in the United States Senate from the 67th through the 70th Congress (1921-29), Virtually every political history of the era touches upon Senate voting alignments, but there is no extant study with the scope, structure, and methodology of this dissertation.
Recommended Citation
O'Brien, Patrick Gene, "A study of political and sectional voting alignments in the United States Senate, 1921-1929" (1968). Wayne State University Dissertations. 954.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/954