num_pages: 336
description: Brimming with data and examples from the tumultuous 2000 election and laced with previews of 2004, the eleventh edition of this classic text offers a complete overview of the presidential election process from the earliest straw polls and fundraisers to final voter turnout and exit interviews. The comprehensive coverage includes campaign strategy, the sequence of electoral events, and the issues, all from the perspective of the various actors in the election voters, interest groups, political parties, the media, and the candidates themselves.Nelson Polsby is a master of debunking myths and analyzing trends. In this fortieth birthday edition of Presidential Elections , he continues in the tradition he and Aaron Wildavsky established as co-authors and goes one step further in following contemporary trends in frontloading and the regulation of political finance.
language: English
title: Presidential Elections: Strategies and Structures of American Politics
titlecomplete: Presidential Elections: Strategies and Structures of American Politics
genres: Politics
ratings_count: 32
places: The United States of America
publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers