The American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote

The American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote image
ISBN-10:

1585446289

ISBN-13:

9781585446285

Edition: 2nd ed.
Released: Jan 14, 2008
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
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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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