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Ten More Years of Republican Rule?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2005

Sarah A. Binder
Sarah A. Binder
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George Washington University (binder@gwu.edu)
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If history is any judge, Republicans should lose control of Congress or the White House during one of the five elections to come between now and 2015. Since Democrats and Republicans became national competitors in 1855, unified party control has lasted on average just 5.9 years. Unified Republican control has endured a bit longer, averaging 6.3 years. Even at its longest (with the onset of the 1896 realignment), Republican control of government has lasted just fourteen years. With the current Republican regime emerging from the elections of 2000, Republican control of Congress and the White House should have run its course by the elections of 2014.Sarah A. Binder is professor of political science at George Washington University (binder@gwu.edu) and a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution.

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SYMPOSIUM: TEN YEARS FROM NOW
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 2005 , pp. 541 - 543
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© 2005 American Political Science Association

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