Milton Cummings, Everett Ladd, David Mayhew, Gerald Pomper, and Harvey Schantz analyze presidential elections over the sweep of American history and examine their impact on political parties, public policy, and society.
This is the first book on the U.S. presidential election system to analyze the basic principles underlying the design of the existing system and those at the heart of competing proposals for improving the system.
This book studies the views from countries in Asia, Europe, and Latin American of the United States and the 2016 presidential election.
Reporting data and predicting trends through the 2008 campaign, this classroom-tested volume offers again James E. Campbell's "theory of the predictable campaign," incorporating the fundamental conditions that systematically affect the ...
This guide to the strategies of candidates and political parties during American presidential election campaigns has been revised and updated to include data on the 1988 presidential elections. The authors...
94-22 GOV, by Royce Crocker. Washington, 1994. p. 128; and Voter Registration and Turnout 1994: Preliminary Results. Report No. 95-327 GOVE, by Royce Crocker. Washington, 1995. p. 5. Appendix A. Polling Hours in the States and District ...
See Peter Hart's comments in the Presidential Campaign Hotline , January 25 , 1988 , p . 19 . 30. Howell Raines , " Hart Scores Upset with 41 % in New Hampshire Primary , " New York Times , February 29 , 1984 , p . A1 . 31. Mickey Kaus ...
Presidential campaigns and elections provide the drama and substance of America's democratic process.
In other words, fundamentals matter, but only because of campaigns. Timely and compelling, this book will force us to rethink our assumptions about presidential elections.
With electoral votes disputed in three states, a Democrat winning the popular vote, and the Supreme Court stepping in to overrule Florida court decisions, the presidential election of 1876 was...