Campaigns and Elections: Issues, Concepts, Cases

by Watson, Robert P.

• ISBN13: 9781588261441
• ISBN10: 1588261441
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-02-28
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner

Summary

Examines elections at the federal, state, and local levels, covering such topics as the use of policical consultants, polling, campaign finance reform, and partisan politics.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(16)
Part 1: Current Issues in Campaigns
Inside the War Room: Political Consultants in Modern Campaigns	17	(14)
David A. Dulio
Campaign Pollsters and Polling: Manipulating the Voter or Taking the Electorate's Pulse?	31	(16)
Stephen K. Medvic
The Technological Evolution of Campaigns: A Look at New and Emerging Practices	47	(10)
Joshua M. Whitman
Joseph W. Perkins Jr.
Case: Incumbency and Issue Advocacy in Pennsylvania's Thirteenth District	57	(10)
Robin Kolodny
Sandra L. Suarez
Case: Violating the ``Appearance Standard'': A Local Campaign Controversy	67	(16)
Edward M. Yager Jr.
Part 2: Current Issues in Elections
Partisan Politics in a Nonpartisan Society	83	(16)
Nicol C. Rae
Reforming the Reforms: Campaign Finance and Congress	99	(20)
Victoria A. Farrar-Myers
Democratic Survival in the Republican South	119	(12)
Mathew Corrigan
Case: The Contested Vote for Mississippi Governor	131	(8)
Donna Simmons
Case: Two Views of the Florida Controversy	139	(30)
What Happened in Florida on November 7, 2000?	139	(11)
Jane Carroll
Election 2000---A League of Women Voters' Perspective	150	(19)
Joan Karp
Part 3: Candidates and Voters
Women's Underrepresentation in Elective Office	169	(14)
Gary G. Aguiar
Minority Voters and Candidates: Tracking Trends	183	(20)
David L. Leal
Covering Candidates and Informing Voters: Newspaper Coverage of a Gubernatorial Election	203	(18)
Stephen J. Stambough
Valerie R. O'Regan
Case: The Maverick Campaign and Election of Jesse Ventura	221	(8)
Steven C. Wagner
Stephen I. Frank
Case: Showdown in the Empire State---Clinton Versus Lazio	229	(12)
Jeffrey Kraus
Part 4: Conclusion
The Congressional Elections of 2000: Tradition Meets Competition in the New Age	241	(12)
Robert Dewhirst
Ronald Keith Gaddie
The Significance of the 2000 Presidential Election: Institutional Impact and Possible Reforms	253	(14)
Anthony J. Eksterowicz
Notes	267	(18)
Bibliography	285	(24)
The Contributors	309	(4)
Index	313	(6)
About the Book	319