A History of Presidential Elections ...
Title | A History of Presidential Elections ... PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Stanwood |
Publisher | |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | Presidents |
ISBN |
Presidential Elections and Majority Rule
Title | Presidential Elections and Majority Rule PDF eBook |
Author | Edward B. Foley |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 0190060158 |
In his latest book, Presidential Elections and Majority Rule, Edward Foley asks how the American electoral system can better represent the people. What kind of winner truly reflects the nation's votes: the plurality winners of winner-takes-all elections, as currently used, or the majority-preferred winners of a reformed system? How do third-party candidates affect American presidential elections? What, if anything, would change in a two-candidate run-off?And how can electoral reform be implemented without sowing chaos? Ultimately, Foley outlines a solution in which the Electoral College can be restored to its original majoritarian ideals through state law rather than Constitutional amendment.
The Timeline of Presidential Elections
Title | The Timeline of Presidential Elections PDF eBook |
Author | Robert S. Erikson |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2012-08-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0226922162 |
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.
A History of Presidential Elections
Title | A History of Presidential Elections PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Stanwood |
Publisher | Boston : Houghton |
Pages | 510 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Presidents |
ISBN |
History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2008
Title | History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2008 PDF eBook |
Author | Gil Troy |
Publisher | Facts on File |
Pages | 1706 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780816082209 |
Becomethe definitive reference on the subject.
The Presidency
Title | The Presidency PDF eBook |
Author | Stefan Lorant |
Publisher | New York : Macmillan |
Pages | 792 |
Release | 1951 |
Genre | Elections |
ISBN |
Here's a superb record of every presidential election in the United States, from the days of George Washington to the struggle between Dewey and Truman. Over 1,000 fascinating pictures vividly illustrate this story of election drama--heroism, scandal, rugged conflict, and stirring ballyhoo. The pictures and text give abundant proof that politics brings out some of our most picturesque--and most American--behavior! Story by story, and picture by picture. author Lorant builds up his striking portrait of an important side of American democracy--our free elections. The forty-two chapters, one for each presidential election and an introductory one on the Creation of Office, make up a lively political history of the United States. With swift, sure strokes Lorant draws in the background of each campaign, portrays the characters of the opposing candidates, and describes the battles that took place. He gives the statistics: always the Electoral vote, and after 1828 the popular vote as well. Thus the reader can quickly see how each state voted for each candidate, the majority by which each election was won, and which Presidents won the popular vote but lost the Electoral vote. The contemporary illustrations do the rest--portraits, engravings, old prints, broadsides, pages of newspapers, facsimiles of letters, hundreds of pungent cartoons, and the best photographs of all the modern campaigns. Lively glimpses of the candidates in action, the rise and fall of parties, vivid bits of historical by-play, election-night scenes, nominating conventions, inaugurations all are here. The portraits of each major candidate for the presidency and vice-presidency from 1789 to 1948 precede each chapter. Never before has the story of presidential elections been so graphically told. This book gives you history at a glance, and will prove as valuable to the historian as to the reader for pleasure.--Jacket.
That Tuesday in November
Title | That Tuesday in November PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Henry |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2020-10-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1475858256 |
Like many aspects of the nation's history, its elections have had their share of behind the scenes activity and drama. This work is an examination of each of the presidential contests and some of the unusual events surrounding them such as the back room convention deals, compromised candidates, campaign strategies, both successful and failures; and major effects on the outcomes due to such inventions as television. In some cases, a swing of just a few votes to another candidate could have had a profound effect on America's future.