Donkey Work : Congressional Democrats in Conservative America, 1974-1994
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 23637482
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.2307/j.ctvj7wmcj
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- ISBN
- 9780700628032
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 100,000-word (304pp) book mounts a robust challenge to two dominant frameworks within U.S. political history: the presidential synthesis (in which the presidency is the agent of change) and the rise of the New Right. As the first study of the congressional Democratic Party between 1974 and 1994, this book draws on 12 archives in 7 states, in a series of research trips over five years that included a six-month research fellowship in the collections at the Library of Congress. The research also involved the creation of ten original oral history interviews with former legislators, activists, and bureaucrats.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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