Historical Atlas of U.s. Presidential Elections 1788-2004 - Hardcover

Archer, J. Clark; Lavin, Stephen J.; Martis, Kenneth C.; Shelley, Fred M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568029551 ISBN 13: 9781568029559

Publisher: CQ Press, 2006

Synopsis

This title was selected as a "Best Reference" for 2006 by "Library Journal". Researchers studying historical U.S. elections and the electoral voting system spend countless hours compiling and comparing data and statistics to discover voting trends and patterns. Now, this new atlas allows researchers to easily make visual comparisons of regional voting patterns throughout the history of the United States. Presented in the form of a four-color atlas, "Historical Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 1788-2004" provides maps and context on every U.S. presidential election since 1789. Two pages of maps for each election from 1788 to present include: one national map showing the winning candidate for each county; one national map per major candidate, including important third-party candidates; and, snapshot data and statistical charts on popular and electoral voting, candidate names and parties, and voter turnout. "Historical Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 1788-2004" also features essa

About this title

About the Author:

J. Clark Archer is professor of geography at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He is the coauthor of Section and Party: A Political Geography of American Presidential Elections, From Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan (with Peter J. Taylor, 1981), the first quantitative critique of the geographical structure of state voting in U.S presidential elections. He also collaborated in the publication of American Electoral Mosaics (with Fred M. Shelley and Ellen R. White, 1986), Political Geography of the United States (with Stanly D. Brunn, Fiona M. Davidson, and Fred M. Shelley, 1996), Atlas of American Politics, 1960-2000 (with Stephen J. Lavin, Kenneth C. Martis, and Fred M. Shelley for CQ Press, 2002), as well as numerous journals and articles.

About this edition

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1568029551
• ISBN 13: 9781568029559
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256