Presidential Campaigns

Author : Robert S. Erikson,Christopher Wlezien
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226922164

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The Timeline of Presidential Elections by Robert S. Erikson,Christopher Wlezien Pdf

In presidential elections, do voters cast their ballots for the candidates whose platform and positions best match their own? Or is the race for president of the United States come down largely to who runs the most effective campaign? It’s a question those who study elections have been considering for years with no clear resolution. In The Timeline of Presidential Elections, Robert S. Erikson and Christopher Wlezien reveal for the first time how both factors come into play. Erikson and Wlezien have amassed data from close to two thousand national polls covering every presidential election from 1952 to 2008, allowing them to see how outcomes take shape over the course of an election year. Polls from the beginning of the year, they show, have virtually no predictive power. By mid-April, when the candidates have been identified and matched in pollsters’ trial heats, preferences have come into focus—and predicted the winner in eleven of the fifteen elections. But a similar process of forming favorites takes place in the last six months, during which voters’ intentions change only gradually, with particular events—including presidential debates—rarely resulting in dramatic change. Ultimately, Erikson and Wlezien show that it is through campaigns that voters are made aware of—or not made aware of—fundamental factors like candidates’ policy positions that determine which ticket will get their votes. In other words, fundamentals matter, but only because of campaigns. Timely and compelling, this book will force us to rethink our assumptions about presidential elections.

Author : Daniel M. Shea,Brian M. Harward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610691932

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Presidential Campaigns by Daniel M. Shea,Brian M. Harward Pdf

Combining primary sources with expert commentary, this timely book probes critical moments in U.S. presidential elections in the last 20th- and early 21st-centuries, empowering readers to better understand and analyze the electoral process. Presidential Campaigns: Documents Decoded illuminates both the high stakes of a presidential campaign and the gaffes, controversies, and excesses that often influence the outcome. With a view to enabling readers to develop skills essential to political literacy, the book examines crisis points in modern presidential elections from the early 1950s through the late 2000s. Chronologically organized, the study focuses on key events pertinent to each election. It provides an original account of the event, such as a debate transcript or news report, as well as a discussion detailing how the issue emerged and why it was important. This unique and engaging approach enables students to experience the actual source material as voters might have. At the same time, it shows them how an expert views the material, facilitating a deeper understanding of the narratives every presidential campaign constructs around its candidates, its party, and its opponents.

Author : Mary E. Stuckey
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271092010

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Deplorable by Mary E. Stuckey Pdf

Political campaigns in the United States, especially those for the presidency, can be nasty—very nasty. And while we would like to believe that the 2020 election was an aberration, insults, invective, and yes, even violence have characterized US electoral politics since the republic’s early days. By examining the political discourse around nine particularly deplorable elections, Mary E. Stuckey seeks to explain why. From the contest that pitted Thomas Jefferson against John Adams in 1800 through 2020’s vicious, chaotic matchup between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Stuckey documents the cycle of despicable discourse in presidential campaigns. Looking beyond the character and the ideology of the candidates, Stuckey explores the broader political, economic, and cultural milieus in which each took place. In doing so, she reveals the conditions that exacerbate and enable our worst political instincts, producing discourses that incite factions, target members of the polity, encourage undemocratic policy, and actively work against the national democratic project. Keenly analytical and compulsively readable, Deplorable provides context for the 2016 and 2020 elections, revealing them as part of a cyclical—and perhaps downward-spiraling—pattern in American politics. Deplorable offers more than a comparison of the worst of our elections. It helps us understand these shameful and disappointing moments in our political history, leaving one important question: Can we avoid them in the future?

Author : Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190694074

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Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age by Jennifer Stromer-Galley Pdf

As the plugged-in presidential campaign has arguably reached maturity, Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age challenges popular claims about the democratizing effect of Digital Communication Technologies (DCTs). Analyzing campaign strategies, structures, and tactics from the past six presidential election cycles, Stromer-Galley reveals how, for all their vaunted inclusivity and tantalizing promise of increased two-way communication between candidates and the individuals who support them, DCTs have done little to change the fundamental dynamics of campaigns. The expansion of new technologies has presented candidates with greater opportunities to micro-target potential voters, cheaper and easier ways to raise money, and faster and more innovative ways to respond to opponents. The need for communication control and management, however, has made campaigns slow and loathe to experiment with truly interactive internet communication technologies. Citizen involvement in the campaign historically has been and, as this book shows, continues to be a means to an end: winning the election for the candidate. For all the proliferation of apps to download, polls to click, videos to watch, and messages to forward, the decidedly undemocratic view of controlled interactivity is how most campaigns continue to operate. In the fully revised second edition, Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age examines election cycles from 1996, when the World Wide Web was first used for presidential campaigning, through 2016 when campaigns had the full power of advertising on social media sites. As the book charts changes in internet communication technologies, it shows how, even as campaigns have moved from a mass mediated to a networked paradigm, the possibilities these shifts in interactivity seem to promise for citizen input and empowerment remain farther than a click away.

Author : Thomas W. Devine
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469602042

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Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism by Thomas W. Devine Pdf

In the presidential campaign of 1948, Henry Wallace set out to challenge the conventional wisdom of his time, blaming the United States, instead of the Soviet Union, for the Cold War, denouncing the popular Marshall Plan, and calling for an end to segregation. In addition, he argued that domestic fascism--rather than international communism--posed the primary threat to the nation. He even welcomed Communists into his campaign, admiring their commitment to peace. Focusing on what Wallace himself later considered his campaign's most important aspect, the troubled relationship between non-Communist progressives like himself and members of the American Communist Party, Thomas W. Devine demonstrates that such an alliance was not only untenable but, from the perspective of the American Communists, undesirable. Rather than romanticizing the political culture of the Popular Front, Devine provides a detailed account of the Communists' self-destructive behavior throughout the campaign and chronicles the frustrating challenges that non-Communist progressives faced in trying to sustain a movement that critiqued American Cold War policies and championed civil rights for African Americans without becoming a sounding board for pro-Soviet propaganda.

Author : John G. Geer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226285009

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In Defense of Negativity by John G. Geer Pdf

Americans tend to see negative campaign ads as just that: negative. Pundits, journalists, voters, and scholars frequently complain that such ads undermine elections and even democratic government itself. But John G. Geer here takes the opposite stance, arguing that when political candidates attack each other, raising doubts about each other’s views and qualifications, voters—and the democratic process—benefit. In Defense of Negativity, Geer’s study of negative advertising in presidential campaigns from 1960 to 2004, asserts that the proliferating attack ads are far more likely than positive ads to focus on salient political issues, rather than politicians’ personal characteristics. Accordingly, the ads enrich the democratic process, providing voters with relevant and substantial information before they head to the polls. An important and timely contribution to American political discourse, In Defense of Negativity concludes that if we want campaigns to grapple with relevant issues and address real problems, negative ads just might be the solution.

Author : Lisa McPartland
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781725310896

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Presidential Campaigns by Lisa McPartland Pdf

The position of president of the United States is an important one, but how does a person get elected president? First, people have to know who they are. To do that, candidates must announce their plan to run for a nomination and the presidency, and then they campaign. A perfect introduction for young readers, this book covers the details of the campaign trail, from grassroots organization to winning delegate support. Readers will learn about key historical figures in U.S. presidential elections. They will also learn how campaigns function today and the debates people have about whether they work well.

Author : Kathleen E. Kendall
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791426815

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Presidential Campaign Discourse by Kathleen E. Kendall Pdf

Focuses on strategies for solving communication problems in presidential campaigns.

Author : Keith E. Melder
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015025283154

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HAIL TO THE CANDIDATE by Keith E. Melder Pdf

In hurrah-style celebrations of democracy, unleashing deep emotions and outpourings of enthusiasm, partisanship, and popular delight. Melder also shows how electioneering became more restrained and less festive and joyful as new techniques of mass communication replaced rallies and parades, campaign symbols, and political artifacts - and, sadly, reduced mass participation. Tracing the history of presidential images from the first, sedate campaign of George Washington to.

Author : Bob Riel
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640125292

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Quest for the Presidency by Bob Riel Pdf

Quest for the Presidency gathers in a single volume the compelling stories behind every presidential campaign in American history, from 1789 through 2020. Bob Riel takes us inside the 1800 clash between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, the 1860 election that launched the Civil War, the 1948 whistle-stop comeback of Harry Truman, the Kennedy-Nixon drama of 1960, the 1980 Reagan Revolution, the historic 2008 election of Barack Obama, the turbulent 2020 battle between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, and everything in between. This engaging and insightful book includes a trove of entertaining stories about campaigns and candidates, and it goes beyond the campaign tales to also consider the threads that link elections across time. It sheds light on the continually evolving story of American democracy in a way that helps us to better understand present-day politics.

Author : James E. Campbell
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781603444477

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The American Campaign, Second Edition by James E. Campbell Pdf

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.

Author : Syl Sobel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : IND:30000078595604

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Presidential Elections by Syl Sobel Pdf

Young readers will find all kinds of interesting facts as they learn who can run for president, who can vote, and what the Electoral College is and how it works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Campaign funds
ISBN : IND:30000068299860

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Public funding of presidential elections by Anonim Pdf

Author : Douglas Yacka,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780593753231

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What Is a Presidential Election? by Douglas Yacka,Who HQ Pdf

This revised edition (updated for the 2024 election) explains American presidential campaigns and includes stickers, activities, and a color-your-own Electoral Map! Who can run for president? What are the differences between America's two major political parties? Is the Electoral College really a college? The newly updated What Is a Presidential Election? answers these questions and many, many more. From stump speeches to campaign slogans, debates to nominating conventions, and finally to Election Night and Inauguration Day, readers will learn all about what it takes to run for--and win--the most powerful job on earth. Activities throughout prompt readers to think about the issues they care most about and consider what makes a good president, sparking discussion with friends and family. Includes a sheet of presidential bobblehead stickers and a color-your-own Electoral Map for the upcoming 2024 election!

Author : Paul F. Boller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0195167163

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Presidential Campaigns by Paul F. Boller Pdf

"Presidential Campaigns devotes a chapter to each of America's elections, from George Washington's in 1789 to George W. Bush's in 2000, dealing with the candidates, the conventions, the party platforms, the speeches, and the reasons for the victories and defeats on election day. The book contains campaign highlights, too, singling out for special attention the gaffes, surprises, dramatic events, and novel ways of vote-chasing that turned up in each campaign. With a postscript analyzing the major changes in the ways Americans have conducted their campaigns through the years, Presidential Campaigns shows that for all their shortcomings, America's quadrennial races represent a basic feature of the American system and, for better or worse, reveal a great deal about the nature of the American people and their culture."--Jacket.