A history of the American presidential elections from 1789 to 2000 highlights the hoopla, diversity, mudslinging, oratory, and serious issues of the campaigns.
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.
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 ...
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.
The author takes note of the serious side of elections even as he documents the frenzy and frolic.
This book is a useful rebuttal to the cynical view that politics is a wholly contrived business, in which unscrupulous operatives manipulate the emotions of distrustful but gullible citizens.
The question is why? In Leading Men, Jackson Katz argues that racial politics and economic anxieties are not enough to explain the dramatic gender divide in American voting patterns.
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Quest for the Presidency gathers in a single volume the compelling stories behind every presidential campaign in American history, from 1789 through 2020.
What emerged from the decades of work on voting behavior and the rebirth of campaign studies in the 1980s was a proliferation of miscellany—and a stark lack of any theoretical focus (although see Popkin 1991; Johnston et al.1992; ...
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