Parties and Elections in America: The Electoral Process - Softcover

Maisel, Sandy L.; Buckley, Kara Z.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742526704 ISBN 13: 9780742526709

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004

Synopsis

Thoroughly revised and updated, the fourth edition of this classic text is still the most comprehensive and readable text available. Covering all aspects of the electoral process from historical roots to election year 2004, the authors bring life to parties long declared dead and first-hand experience running for office to the sometimes grueling campaign trail.

About this title

About the Author:

L. Sandy Maisel is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government, chair of the Department of Government, and director of the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement at Colby College.

Kara Z. Buckley is a research associate at Stanford University.

Review:

The weighty fourth updated edition of a winning, in-depth survey of the electoral process in America shouldn't be missed by any seeking a survey of the electoral process, whether it be the high school or college student or the general-interest lay reader. Chapters in Parties and Elections in America: The Electoral Process highlight both parties' role in the process, consider organized group influence in the campaign process, analyze the state and local nomination process: in short, everything the political science student needs to understand. Highly recommended. (Library Bookwatch)

Parties and Elections in America highlights the great dynamism in the American electoral process. Sandy Maisel and Kara Buckley have produced a text that is both nuanced in its approach and accessible to students of politics. It highlights the parties' role in elections without either disdain or celebration—they tell it like it is. One couldn't ask for a more balanced approach. The book contains excellent treatments of complicated topics such as campaign finance reform, the role of interest groups in elections, the presidential nominating process, and state and local campaigns. Students of political parties, campaigns and elections, Congress, and the Presidency will find plenty to talk about in this volume! (Robin Kolodny, Temple University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0742526704
• ISBN 13: 9780742526709
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 600