The Roads to Congress 2014 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1498517196 ISBN 13: 9781498517195

Verlag: Lexington Books, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The 2014 midterm congressional elections provided a view of the attitude of American voters in the sixth year of Barack Obama's presidency. This book provides insight about the formative aspects of the 2014 campaign season as well as in depth coverage of key races for Congress. The first section has four chapters that cover the substance of topics that impacted this campaign cycle: the popularity and productivity of the 113th Congress, voter suppression laws passed in many states, the role of Super PACs and independent expenditures in the campaigns, and the use of social media by members of Congress running for reelection. Case studies follow the path of ten House and seven Senate races from inception to election postmortem. The chapters are narrative and provide analysis of an array of interesting and diverse contests from throughout the country. The authors provide succinct and highly readable chapters meant to illustrate the distinctive nature of the campaigns they are examining. Individual campaigns and elections are shown "up close" and be ready to compare and contrast because of the common format employed throughout the book. Taken together, the chapters reveal that the roads to Congress, while similar in so many ways, each follow a unique route to Capitol Hill.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Sean D. Foreman is assistant professor of political science at Barry University.

Robert Dewhirst is professor of political science at Northwest Missouri State University.

Joseph Gershtenson is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at University of North Georgia, USA. His research and teaching interests include political polarization, incivility in American politics, authoritarianism, and US elections.

William J. Miller is assistant professor of public administration at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. He received his doctorate in 2010 in public administration and urban studies from The University of Akron along with a master's degree in applied politics (campaign management and polling). He is the editor of Tea Party Effects on 2010 U.S. Senate Elections: Stuck in the Middle to Lose (Lexington 2012) and The Political Battle over Congressional Redistricting (Lexington 2013).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1498517196
• ISBN 13: 9781498517195
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
• Herausgeber: Foreman Sean D., Dewhirst Robert
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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