Special Elections The Backdoor Entrance to Congress

by Bullock, Charles S.; Owen, Karen L.

• ISBN13: 9780197540626
• ISBN10: 0197540627
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-02-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Charles S. Bullock, III, is Distinguished University Professor of Public and International Affairs, the Richard B. Russell Professor of Political Science, and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia. Bullock is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of more than 30 books and more than 250 articles and book chapters. Among his books are Redistricting: The Most Political Activity in America, Georgia's Three Governors Controversy, and The South and the Transformation of U.S. Politics. He is past president of the Southern Political Science Association.

Karen L. Owen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Thomas B. Murphy Center for Public Service at the University of West Georgia. She is a gender politics and American institutions scholar. Owen is also the author of Women Officeholders and the Role Models who Pioneered the Way as well as numerous articles on congressional elections, state legislative partisanship, and women serving within local levels of government and trial courts.