The American Campaign, Second Edition: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote
- ISBN-10
- 1585446289
- ISBN-13
- 9781585446285
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-01-14
- Publisher
- Texas A&M University Press
- Author
- James E. Campbell
Description
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 presidential vote: political competition, presidential incumbency, and election-year economic conditions. Campbell’s cogent thinking and clear style present students with a readable survey of presidential elections and political scientists’ ways of studying them. The American Campaign also shows how and why journalists have mistakenly assigned a pattern of unpredictability and critical significance to the vagaries of individual campaigns. This excellent election-year text provides: a summary and assessment of each of the serious predictive models of presidential election outcomes; a historical summary of many of America’s important presidential elections; a significant new contribution to the understanding of presidential campaigns and how they matter.
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