In this Book
- The American Campaign, Second Edition: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: Texas A&M University Press
- Series: Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. v-viii
- Introduction
- pp. ixx-xxii
- The American Campaign ★Second Edition
- pp. xxiii-xxiv
- ★ Chapter 5 Presidential Incumbency
- pp. 102-127
- ★ Chapter 9 How Campaigns Matter
- pp. 189-204
- ★ Epilogue The 2008 Campaign
- pp. 205-212
- References
- pp. 279-292
Additional Information
ISBN
9781603444477
Related ISBN(s)
9781585446285
MARC Record
OCLC
698590824
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No