Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

critical realignment theory  

Definition

  • Popularized in the 1960s and 1970s, critical realignment theory gained credibility through the efforts of such notable scholars as V. O. Key Jr., E. E. Schattschneider, James L. Sundquist, and Walter Dean Burnham. For years, critical realignment theory was considered conventional wisdom, and political scientists pondered over when the next critical realignment would occur. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Critical Realignment Theory]

Broader concept

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/critical_realignment_theory

Download this concept: