Presidential Elections: Strategies and Structures of American Politics - Hardcover

Polsby Professor Of Political Science University Of California Berkeley; Author, Nelson W.; Wildavsky, Aaron; Schier Carleton College, Steven E.; Hopkins, David A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1538125102 ISBN 13: 9781538125106

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019

Synopsis

Polsby and Wildavsky’s classic text argues that the institutional rules of the presidential nomination and election processes, in combination with the behavior of the mass electorate, structure the strategic choices faced by politicians in powerful and foreseeable ways. We can make sense of the decisions made by differently situated political actors—incumbents, challengers, Democrats, Republicans, consultants, party official, activists, delegates, journalists, and voters—by understanding the ways in which their world is organized by incentives, regulations, events, resources, customs, and opportunities.

About this title

About the Author:

Steven E. Schier is Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science at Carleton College. He is the author or editor of 13 books including The Trump Presidency: Outsider in the Oval Office (2017) and Polarized: The Rise of Ideology in American Politics (2015), both with R&L.

David A. Hopkins is associate professor of political science at Boston College. His research and teaching interests include American political parties and elections, the U.S. Congress, voting behavior, public opinion, and research methods. He is the author of Red Fighting Blue: How Geography and Electoral Rules Polarize American Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and Asymmetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Nelson W. Polsby was Heller Professor of Political Science and past Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught American politics for forty years.

Review:

Since it first published in 1964, Presidential Elections has been an instant classic. Schier and Hopkins continue the tradition by offering a 360-degree view of the changing American elections landscape. (Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1538125102
• ISBN 13: 9781538125106
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320