Kantor, Shawn; Fishback, Price Vanmeter; Wallis, John Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The critical election of 1932 represented a turning point in the future electoral successes of the Democrats and Republicans for over three decades. This paper seeks to measure the importance of the New Deal in facilitating the Democrats' control of the federal government well into the 1960s. We...