Timeline of Presidential Elections How Campaigns Do

Name: Timeline of Presidential Elections How Campaigns Do
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ISBN: 9780226922157

ISBN-10: 0226922154

ISBN-13: 9780226922157

Edition: 2012

Authors: Robert S. Erikson, Christopher Wlezien

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With the 2012 presidential election upon us, will voters cast their ballots for the candidates whose platform and positions best match their own? Or will the race for the next president of the United States come down largely to who runs the most effective campaign? It’s a question those who study elections have been considering for years with no clear resolution. InThe Timeline of Presidential Elections,Robert S. Erikson and Christopher Wlezien reveal for the first time how both factors come into play. Erikson and Wlezien have amassed data from close to two thousand national polls covering every presidential election from 1952 to 2008, allowing them to see how outcomes take shape over the…

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List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Robert S. Erikson is professor of political science at Columbia University and the author or coauthor of several books, including The Macro Polity.

Christopher Wlezien is the Hogg Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is coauthor of Degrees of Democracy.



Acknowledgments



Election Campaigns and Voter Preferences



Uncovering Vote Intentions using Trial-Heat Polls



Thinking about Campaign Dynamics



Vote Intentions over the Campaign Timeline



From the Campaign to Election Day



Sources of Change over the Campaign Timeline



Campaign Dynamics and the Individual Voter



The Evolution of Electoral Choice over the Campaign Timeline


Appendix Vote Intention Data


Notes


References


Index