The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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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The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics.This Handbook offers comprehensive coverage of the various theoretical approaches to the study of American elections and political behavior. The chapters are thoughtful and creative, providing broad overviews of intellectual developments and challenges, as well as incisive commentary on the accomplishments of, and challenges facing, scholars of American politics. Substantively, the Handbook includes chapters focusing on various approaches and issues in research design, political participation, vote choice, presidential and non-presidential elections, and issues, interests and elites as influences on individuals' political behaviour. Each of the chapters offers a working research bibliography, as well as retrospective evaluations of research and discussions of fruitful paths for future research.
General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics: George C. Edwards III
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior “
- 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
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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
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Autoren-Porträt von Jan E. Leighley
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.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jan E. Leighley
- 2010, 796 Seiten, Maße: 25,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Jan E. Leighley
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199235473
- ISBN-13: 9780199235476
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.03.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
While learning about the state of research in political behavior, readers will find interesting nuggets of information on the development of political science in the US. Summing Up: Recommended. CHOICE
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