Vital Statistics on American Politics, 2003-2004 (Vital Statistics on American Politics)

No other print source, online source, or web search engine brings you the wealth of authoritative data available in Vital Statistics on American Politics. Working with hundreds of sources - government offices and publications, academia and scholarly articles, polling organizations, databases, time series studies, and more - authors Harold Stanley and Richard Niemi calculate and collect the data, facts, and figures that make this single work an unrivaled reference on the broad spectrum of American politics and policies. In over 200 tables and figures, each intelligibly presented, students, citizens, and researchers will find well-considered information about: Split district outcomes in votes for president and Congress; Changes in public opinion over military interventions such as the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, and the use of U.S. troops in Haiti and Bosnia; Trends in labor union membership, unemployment rates, newspaper circulation, and public opinion on the death penalty over the years; The level of federal funds states receive relative to the federal tax dollars their citizens pay. Updated with the latest information, this new edition incorporates the historic 2002 elections, changes in partisan composition at the congressional and state levels, additional census data, legislative term limits, approval ratings of Congress and the president, and the national debt, among other vital matters. In addition, statistical information is available on PACs, public opinion and voting, media, social policy, economic policy, and foreign and military policy. Chapter introductions to help the reader better comprehend and interpret the statistical material, an index, and an annotated reference guide to thousands of additional tables and figures on political statistics complete the volume.