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Guide to U.S. elections.

In volume 1, part 1 examines the evolution of the US electoral system and includes material on the franchise and voting rights. It also explores the impact of major post-World War II political issues. Part 2 examines the evolution of campaign finance, traces the development of political parties, p...

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Corporate Authors: ebrary, Inc, CQ Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, [2010]
Edition:6th ed.
Subjects:
Elections > United States > History > Statistics.
Political conventions > United States > History.
Political parties > United States > History.
United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • v. 1, pt. 1. Elections in America ; pt. 2. Political parties ; pt. 3. Presidential elections
  • v. 2, pt. 4. Congressional elections ; pt. 5. Gubernatorial elections.
  • Volume 1
  • Tables, figures, and boxes
  • Editor's note
  • Part 1:
  • Elections In America
  • Chapter 1: Evolution of American elections
  • Challenging the two parties
  • Basic layout
  • Republicans start fast
  • Democrats take charge
  • Postwar politics: Kennedy and Nixon
  • Split-level realignment
  • Era of closeness
  • Tale of two nations
  • Historic milestones in US elections
  • Chapter 2: Elections: an expanding franchise
  • More voters, changing voter patterns
  • Black vote: a long, painful struggle
  • Women's vote: a victory in stages
  • Eighteen-year old vote
  • Removing obstacles to voting
  • Part 2:
  • Political Parties
  • Chapter 3: Campaign finance
  • Controversy surrounds financing system
  • Financing campaigns: historical development
  • Campaign finance reform in the 1970s and 1980s
  • Comprehensive reform efforts in the 1980s and 1990s
  • New laws in the 2000s
  • Candidates' fund-raising and spending
  • Chapter 4: Politics and issues, 1945-2008
  • Post-World War II years
  • Vietnam War years
  • Years of uneasy peace
  • Post-Cold War era
  • Partisan era
  • Chapter 5: Political party development
  • Political issues and the emergence of parties
  • Internal party politics
  • Third parties
  • Chapter 6: Historical profiles of American political parties
  • American Independent Party and American Party
  • Anti-Federalists
  • Anti-Masonic Party
  • Breckinridge (southern) Democrats
  • Citizens party
  • Communist party
  • Conservative party
  • Constitutional Union Party
  • Democratic Party
  • Democratic-Republican Party
  • Dixiecrats (States' Rights Party)
  • Federalists
  • Free soil party
  • Green Party
  • Greenback Party
  • Know nothing (American) Party
  • Liberal Party
  • Liberal Republican Party
  • Libertarian Party
  • Liberty Party
  • National Democratic Party
  • National Republican Party
  • National Unity Party (Independent John B Anderson)
  • Natural Law Party
  • New Alliance Party
  • Peace and Freedom Party
  • People's Party
  • Populist (People's) Party
  • Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
  • Progressive Party (La Follette)
  • Progressive Party (Wallace)
  • Prohibition Party
  • Reform Party (Independent Ross Perot) Republican Party
  • Socialist Party
  • Socialist Labor Party
  • Socialist Workers Party
  • Union Party
  • US Labor Party (Independent Lyndon LaRouche)
  • US Taxpayers Party and Constitution Party
  • Whig Party
  • Workers World Party
  • Chapter 7: Southern Electoral Experience
  • Historical role of primaries
  • Preferential primaries
  • County unit system: Georgia
  • Special elections
  • Racial discrimination
  • Part 3:
  • Presidential Elections
  • Chapter 8: Introduction
  • Who runs for President
  • Exploratory stage
  • Primary and caucus schedule
  • Presidential nomination
  • General election campaign
  • Electoral college
  • Term of Office
  • Roads to the White House
  • Chapter 9: Chronology of Presidential elections
  • Emergence of the electoral process
  • Age of Jackson
  • Idea of a party system
  • Slavery divides the nation
  • Postwar radicalism
  • Age of Republicanism
  • Age of reform
  • Return to normalcy and the roaring twenties
  • New deal coalition
  • Breakup of consensus
  • New conservative discourse
  • Clinton Era
  • New century, old partisanship
  • Chapter 10: Presidential primaries
  • Front-loaded process
  • Evolutionary process
  • Nominations reform reversal of fortune
  • Nominations today
  • Chapter 11: Presidential primary returns, 1912-2008
  • Chapter 12: Nominating conventions
  • Convention sites
  • Delegate selection
  • Controversial rules
  • Convention officers
  • Party platforms
  • Filling vacancies
  • Communications and the media
  • Chapter 13: Political party nominees, 1831-2008
  • Chapter 14: Convention chronology, 1831-2008
  • Chapter 15: Key convention ballots
  • Chapter 16: Popular vote returns for President
  • Presidential popular vote returns: minor candidates and parties, 1824-2008
  • Chapter 17: Electoral college
  • Constitutional background
  • Methods of choosing electors
  • Historical anomalies
  • Election by Congress
  • Counting the electoral vote
  • Reform proposals
  • Presidential disability
  • Chapter 18: Electoral votes for President, 1789-2008
  • Electoral votes for Vice President, 1804-2008
  • Chapter 19: Biographical directory of presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates
  • Indexes, following page 904
  • Presidential candidates index
  • General index
  • Volume 2
  • Part 4:
  • Congressional Elections
  • Chapter 20: Introduction
  • Characteristics of members
  • Women in Congress
  • Blacks in Congress
  • Hispanics in Congress
  • Turnover in membership
  • Shifts between chambers
  • Chapter 21: House elections
  • People's branch
  • Special elections
  • Disputed house elections
  • Party control shifts
  • Chapter 22: Reapportionment and redistricting
  • Early history of reapportionment
  • Reapportionment: the number of seats
  • Redistricting: drawing the lines
  • Major Supreme Court cases on redistricting
  • Practical results of court's rulings
  • Mid-decade redistricting and partisan gerrymandering
  • Chapter 23: House general election returns, 1824-2008
  • Chapter 24: Senate elections
  • Election by State Legislatures
  • Changing election procedures
  • Demands for popular elections
  • Senate's three classes
  • Sessions and terms
  • Modern senate
  • Chapter 25: US Senators, 1789-2009
  • Chapter 26: Senate general election returns, 1913-2008
  • Chapter 27: Senate primary election returns, 1920-2008
  • Part 5: Gubernatorial Elections
  • Chapter 28: Introduction
  • Length of terms
  • Elections in nonpresidential years
  • Methods of election
  • Number of terms
  • Majority vote requirement
  • Hotbed of volatility
  • Chapter 29: Governors of the states, 1776-2009
  • Chapter 30: Gubernatorial general election returns, 1776-2008
  • Chapter 31: Gubernatorial primary election returns, 1919-2008
  • Reference materials
  • Constitutional provisions and amendments on elections
  • Population of the United States and Puerto Rico, 1790-2000
  • Changing methods of electing Presidential electors, 1788-1836
  • Presidential nominating campaign lengths, 1968-2008
  • Victorious party in Presidential races, 1860-2008
  • Distribution of House seats and electoral votes
  • Election results, Congress and the presidency, 1860-2008
  • Results of House elections, 1928-2008
  • Sessions of the US Congress, 1789-2009
  • Speakers of the House of Representatives, 1789-2009
  • House floor leaders, 1899-2009
  • Senate floor leaders, 1911-2009
  • Election-related web sites
  • Political party abbreviations
  • Selected bibliography
  • Illustration credits and acknowledgments
  • Indexes, following page 1790
  • House candidates index
  • Senate general election Senate primary candidates index
  • Gubernatorial general election candidates index
  • Gubernatorial primary candidates index
  • General index
  • Tables, Figures, And Boxes
  • Tables
  • 1-1: Growing franchise in the United States, 1930-2008
  • 2-1: Nation's voters, 1980-2006
  • 2-2: Eligible voter turnout rates
  • 3-1: Contribution limits for 2009-2010 election cycle
  • 3-2: Campaign spending by candidates for Federal Office: 1976-2008
  • 7-1: Preference and runoff primaries
  • 8-1: US Presidents and Vice Presidents
  • 8-2: Campaign lengths for Presidential candidates, 2008
  • 8-3: Minority Presidents
  • 10-1: Votes cast and delegates selected in Presidential primaries, 1912-2008
  • 12-1: Democratic conventions, 1832-2008
  • 12-2: Chief Officers and Keynote Speakers at Democratic National Conventions, 1832-2008
  • 12-3 Republican Conventions, 1856-2008
  • 12-4: Chief Officers and Keynote Speakers at Republican National Conventions, 1856-2008
  • 12-5 National party chairs, 1848-2009
  • 12-6: Chief Officers at other National Party Conventions, 1831-1892
  • 20-1: Age structure of Congress, 1949-2009
  • 20-2: Women in Congress, 1947-2009
  • 20-3: Blacks in Congress, 1947-2009
  • 20-4: Hispanics in congress, 1947-2009
  • 20-5: Longest service in Congress
  • 22-1: Congressional apportionment, 1789-2000
  • 22-2: State population totals and House seat changes after the 2000 census
  • 22-3: Interstate transfer of House seats by census and Senate, 1960-2000
  • 28-1: Party lineup of Governors
  • 28-2: Length of Governor terms
  • 28-3: Limitations on Governor terms
  • Figures:
  • 2-1: Voter turnout rates, Presidential and midterm elections, 1789-2008
  • 2-2: Partisan identification, national election studies, 1952-2008
  • 3-1: National soft money receipts
  • 3-2: Congressional campaign spending by election year
  • 5-1: American political parties, 1789-2008
  • 12-1: Republican and Democratic convention delegates, 1932-2008
  • 22-1: Reapportionment gainers and losers in 2000
  • 22-2: Redistricting in North Carolina
  • 22-3: Redistricting in Illinois
  • Boxes:
  • Part 1: Elections In America-- Electoral anomalies
  • Measuring voter turnout
  • Constitutional provisions for House and Senate elections
  • Part 2:
  • Political Parties
  • Campaign finance glossary
  • Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (McCain-Feingold)
  • Campaign finance history in a nutshell
  • Actions of the :do-nothing" eightieth Congress
  • Members of Congress who became President
  • Governors who became President
  • Term limits
  • Party systems
  • Why two parties?
  • Part 3: Presidential Elections
  • What they did before they became president
  • President of the Confederacy
  • Countdown in Florida
  • Types of primaries and procedures
  • Selection by caucus
  • Choosing a running mate: the balancing act
  • President's reelection chances
  • Vice Presidents who have become President
  • Growth of Presidential primaries: more and more, earlier and earlier
  • Sites of major party conventions, 1832-2008
  • Changes in Democrats' Nominating rules
  • Political Party organization and rules
  • GOP primary rules
  • Democrats' two-thirds rule
  • Notable credentials fights
  • Major platform fights
  • Third parties usually fade rapidly
  • Highlights of National Party Conventions, 1831-2008
  • Splitting of States' Electoral Votes: Factionalism and "Faithless Electors"
  • Electoral college chronology
  • Presidential election by the House
  • Law for counting electoral votes in Congress
  • Part 4:
  • Congressional Elections
  • Limiting terms
  • Congressional characteristics and public opinion
  • Incumbency
  • Funding for competitive races
  • Constitutional provisions
  • Congress and redistricting
  • How should the census count the population?
  • Origins of the gerrymander
  • Gerrymandering: the shape of the House
  • Drawing districts
  • Geographical patterns in reapportionment, 1790-2000
  • Senate appointments and special elections
  • Appointed Senators after 1913
  • Part 5:
  • Gubernatorial Elections
  • Removal of a Governor from office.