Races, reforms, & policy
Subtitle: implications of the 2014 midterm elections
By: edited by Christopher J. Galdieri, Tauna S. Sisco, Jennifer C. Lucas
Edition: First edition.
Series: Bliss Institute series
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781629220697
Subjects: United States; Elections; States; Elections, 2014; United States. Congress; Voting
Other titles: Races, reforms, and policy
Description: "The midterm elections of 2014 saw the culmination of long-term trends in American politics, and laid the groundwork for Republicans' successes in 2016. To what extent were the results the product of shifting partisan and demographic trends, and to what extent did policy questions drive the results? What can 2014 tell us about midterm elections generally? In this volume, leading scholars look at this election in its broad strokes, in case studies of key races, and in terms of policy questions such as immigration, health care, the environment, and election administration itself. Chapters also address the important issue of voter wait times for democratic outcomes. The authors demonstrate how the midterm elections of 2014 were in many ways typical for midterm elections, but when you dig deeper into individual races, important variation emerges"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Understanding the 2014 midterm election / Robert S. Erikson; title: The other Republican wave: 2014 state legislative elections / Chad Kinsella and Scott Sedmak; title: Florida's second congressional district: a blue dot in a field of red / Robert E. Crew, Jr., Alexandra G. Cockerham, and Edward James III; title: Not set in stone: nationalization and the changing face of South Dakota politics / Emily O. Wanless; title: The 2014 senate and 2012 presidential elections in North Carolina: a microgeographical comparison / Adam S. Myers; title: Scott Brown, the carpetbagger: the political rhetoric surrounding the US Senate race in New Hampshire in 2014 / Jerome J. Day, Tauna S. Sisco, and Christopher J. Galdieri; title: Assessing recommendations of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration on reducing long lines and wait times on election day / Terri Susan Fine and Charles Stewart III; title: Wait times and voter confidence: a study of the 2014 general election in Miami-Dade County / Michael C. Herron, Daniel A. Smith, Wendy Serra, and Joseph Bafumi; title: The Affordable Care Act and the outcome of the 2014 US Senate elections / Sean D. Foreman; title: Immigration reform and the 2014 midterms: the politics of executive action / Heather Silber Mohamed; title: The climate and carbon conservative campaign conundrum: Republicans on energy and environment in the 2014 elections / Mark J. O'Gorman.