The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior

Herausgeber: Leighley, Jan E.

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Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are the essential guide to the study of American political life in the 21st Century. With engaging contributions from the major figures in the field The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior provides the key point of reference for anyone working in American Politics today

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)
• Seitenzahl: 796
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1346g
• ISBN-13: 9780199604517
• ISBN-10: 0199604517
• Artikelnr.: 34437972

Autorenporträt

Jan E. Leighley, Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona, has published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and American Politics Quarterly, among others. Her two books include Strength in Numbers? The Political Mobilization of Racial and Ethnic Minorities, published by Princeton University Press, and Mass Media and Politics: A Social Science Perspective. She served as editor (with Kim Quaile Hill) of the American Journal of Political Science, a leading general journal in political science, from 2000-2004 and has served on two advisory panels at the National Science Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: Introduction
* 1: Jan E. Leighley: Introduction
* Part II: Research Design
* 2: Lonna Rae Atkeson: The State of Survey Research as a Research Tool
in American Politics
* 3: Josh Pasek and Jon A. Krosnick: Optimizing Survey Questionnaire
Design in Political Science: Insights from Psychology
* 4: Tiffany C. Davenport, Alan S. Gerber, and Donald P. Green: Field
Experiments and the Study of Political Behavior
* 5: John H. Aldrich and Arthur Lupia: Formal Modeling, Strategic
Behavior, and the Study of American Elections
* Part III: Participation
* 6: Michael D. Martinez: Why Is American Turnout So Low, and Why
Should We Care?
* 7: Michael P. McDonald: American Voter Turnout in Historical
Perspective
* 8: Fredrick Harris and Daniel Gillion: Expanding the Possibilities:
Reconceptualizing Political Participation as a Tool Box
* 9: Robert D. Brown: Voter Registration: Turnout, Representation, and
Reform
* 10: Robert M. Stein and Greg Vonnahme: Early, Absentee, and Mail-In
Voting
* 11: Karen Mossberger and Caroline J. Tolbert: Digital Democracy: How
Politics Online is Changing Electoral Participation
* 12: R. Michael Alvarez and Thad E. Hall: Voting Technology
* Part IV: Vote Choice
* 13: Larry M. Bartels: The Study of Electoral Behavior
* 14: William G. Jacoby: The American Voter
* 15: T.K. Ahn, Robert Huckfeldt, Alexander K. Mayer, and John B. Ryan:
Politics, Expertise, and Interdependence within Electorates
* 16: Maria Armoudian, Ann N Crigler: Constructing the Vote: Media
Effects in a Constructionist Model
* 17: Sunshine Hillygus: Campaign Effects on Vote Choice
* 18: Thomas Holbrook: Forecasting U.S. Presidential Elections
* Part V: Interests, Self- and Otherwise
* 19: Suzanna Linn, Jonathan Nagler, and Marco A. Morales: Economics,
Elections and Voting Behavior
* 20: John A. Garcia: Latinos and Political Behavior: Defining
Community to Examine Critical Complexities
* 21: Kira Sanbonmatsu: Organizing American Politics, Organizing Gender
* 22: John C. Green: Gauging the God Gap: Religion and Voting in U.S.
Presidential Elections
* Part VI: Elections Other than Presidential
* 23: Barry C. Burden and Amber Wichowsky: Local and National Forces in
Congressional Elections
* 24: Melissa J. Marschall: The Study of Local Elections in American
Politics
* 25: Laura Langer, Meghan Leonard and Andrea Polk: Studying State
Judicial Races in a Transformed Electoral Environment
* 26: Barbara Norrander: Primary Elections
* 27: Shaun Bowler, Todd Donovan: Direct Democracy in the United States
* Part VII: Elites and Institutions
* 28: Walter J. Stone and Matthew K. Buttice: Voters in Context: The
Politics of Citizen Behavior
* 29: Kenneth M. Goldstein and Matthew Holleque: Getting Up Off the
Canvass: Rethinking the Study of Mobilization
* 30: John H. Aldrich and John D. Griffin: Parties, Elections, and
Democratic Politics
* 31: Peter L. Francia: Organized Interests: Evolution and Influence
* 32: Lynda Powell and Clyde Wilcox: Money and American Elections
* 33: Bernard Grofman and Thomas L. Brunell: Redistricting
* 34: Mark N. Franklin and Till Weber: American Electoral Practices in
Comparative Perspective
* Part VIII: Reflections
* 35: Jane Junn: On Participation: Individuals, Dynamic Categories, and
the Context of Power
* 36: Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich and David W. Rohde: Studying
American Elections
* 37: Patricia A. Hurley and Kim Quaile Hill: In Search of
Representation Theory