1. See, for example, Harry S. Stout, “Culture, Structure, and the ‘New’ History: A Critique and an Agenda,”Computers and the Humanities, 9 (July 1975), 213–30; Robert P. Swierenga, “Computers and American History: The Impact of the ‘New’ Generation,”Journal of American History, 60 (March 1974), 1045–70; Swierenga, “Computers and Comparative History,”Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 5 (Autumn 1974), 267–88; Richard Jensen, “Quantitative American Studies: The State of the Art,”American Quarterly, 26 (August 1974), 225–40; Joel H. Silbey, “Clio and Computers: Moving Into Phase II, 1970–1972,”Computers and the Humanities, 7 (November 1972), 67–79; and Allan G. Bogue, “United States: The ‘New’ Political History,”Journal of Contemporary History, 3 (January 1968), 5–27.
2. To cite only two of the responses, see Herbert G. Gutman,Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of “Time on the Cross” (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975); and Paul David et al.,Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976).
3. Richard Jensen ably summarizes the development of election analysis from the nineteenth century to the 1940s in “American Election Analysis: A Case History of Methodological Innovation and Diffusion,” in Seymour Martin Lipset, ed.,Politics and the Social Sciences (New York: Oxford University Press, 1969), 226–43.
4. See, for example, J. Morgan Kousser, “Post-Reconstruction Suffrage Restriction in Tennessee: A New Look at the V. O. Key Thesis,”Political Science Quarterly, 88 (December 1973), 655–83; Margaret Thompson Echols and Austin Ranney, “The Impact of Interparty Competition Reconsidered: The Case of Florida,”Journal of Politics, 38 (February 1976), 142–52; and Raymond Tatalovich, “‘Friends and Neighbors’ Voting: Mississippi,”Journal of Politics, 37 (August 1975), 807–14.
5. “A Theory of Critical Elections,”Journal of Politics, 17 (February 1955), 3–18; “Secular Realignment and the Party System,” ibid., 21 (May 1959), 198–210; and Key and Frank Munger, “Social Determinism and Electoral Decision: The Case of Indiana,” in Eugene Burdick and Arthur J. Brodbeck, eds.,American Voting Behavior (Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1959), 281–99.