Midterms and Mandates (Paperback)

Patrick Andelic

ISBN 10: 1474478190 / ISBN 13: 9781474478199

Published by Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2024

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Paperback. Midterm elections have forced presidents to adjust course and have heralded the rise or fall of new party coalitions, yet they remain understudied in comparison to their presidential counterparts. This book offers a fresh perspective on the American presidency by analysing the significance of midterm elections in the United States. Midterms not only provide an important opportunity for voters to evaluate the record of a president so far, but also have consequences for an administration's pursuit of the president's agenda over the two years that follow. As the essays in this collection show, midterms modify in crucial ways the mandate that a president gained at the time of their election to the White House. The volume integrates contributions from political scientists and historians to create a truly multidisciplinary understanding of the interplay between midterm elections and the American presidency. Analyses how midterm elections have shaped the American presidency Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Midterms and Mandates (Paperback)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474478190
• ISBN 13: 9781474478199
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Midterm elections have forced presidents to adjust course and have heralded the rise or fall of new party coalitions, yet they remain understudied in comparison to their presidential counterparts. This book offers a fresh perspective on the American presidency by analysing the significance of midterm elections in the United States. Midterms not only provide an important opportunity for voters to evaluate the record of a president so far, but also have consequences for an administration’s pursuit of the president’s agenda over the two years that follow. As the essays in this collection show, midterms modify in crucial ways the mandate that a president gained at the time of their election to the White House. The volume integrates contributions from political scientists and historians to create a truly multidisciplinary understanding of the interplay between midterm elections and the American presidency.

About the Authors

Patrick Andelic is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University. His first book, Donkey Work: Congressional Democrats in Conservative America, 1974-1994, was published by the University Press of Kansas in 2019.

Mark McLay is Lecturer in American History at the University of Glasgow. He contributed to Constructing Presidential Legacy (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and published articles in Journal of Political History and Historical Journal.

Robert Mason is Professor of Twentieth-Century U.S. History at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on the subject of American party politics and the American presidency, publications include The Republican Party and American Politics from Hoover to Reagan (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered: American Politics and Society in the Postwar Era (edited with Iwan Morgan, University Press of Florida, 2017).