The American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote (Joseph V. Hughes, Jr., and Holly O. Hughes Series in the Presidency and Leadership Studies, No. 6) - Hardcover

Campbell, James E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0890969396 ISBN 13: 9780890969397

Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr, 2000

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JAMES E. CAMPBELL is a professor of political science at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His numerous articles on voting and elections have been published in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics.

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Campbell, a political science professor, argues that presidential campaigns do affect election results in a systematic, predictable way. Although these effects are constrained (by voters' partisanship, economic conditions, incumbency, and competition), Campbell gives post^-Labor Day campaigns credit, on average, for four percentage points' impact on the national vote, with the campaigns decisive in two of the last 13 elections (1948 and 1960). Over a longer period, campaigns have played a critical role in 20 percent of presidential races. Campbell describes the systematic and unsystematic effects of campaigns on both local and national levels; uses statistical analysis to challenge the notion that Americans are becoming less partisan; and suggests that campaigns exert much of their effect by influencing the partisanship of late-deciding voters. Larger libraries where serious studies of politics circulate will want to consider this thoughtful entry in the current debate over whether U.S. political campaigns matter and, if so, how much and why. Mary Carroll

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0890969396
• ISBN 13: 9780890969397
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314