The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-960451-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 796 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1346 g

Reihe: Oxford Handbooks

The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior offers comprehensive coverage of the various theoretical approaches to the study of American elections and political behavior. The chapters are thoughtful and creative, providing broad overviews of intellectual developments and challenges, as well as incisive commentary on the accomplishments of, and challenges facing, scholars of American politics. Substantively, the Handbook includes
chapters focusing on various approaches and issues in research design, political participation, vote choice, presidential and non-presidential elections, and issues, interests and elites as influences on individuals' political behaviour. Each of the chapters offers a working research bibliography, as well as
retrospective evaluations of research and discussions of fruitful paths for future research.

The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically
assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics.

General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics: George C. Edwards III

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of American politics, political behaviour, and electoral studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leighley, Jan E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction
1: Jan E. Leighley: Introduction
Part II: Research Design
2: Lonna Rae Atkeson: The State of Survey Research as a Research Tool in American Politics
3: Josh Pasek and Jon A. Krosnick: Optimizing Survey Questionnaire Design in Political Science: Insights from Psychology
4: Tiffany C. Davenport, Alan S. Gerber, and Donald P. Green: Field Experiments and the Study of Political Behavior
5: John H. Aldrich and Arthur Lupia: Formal Modeling, Strategic Behavior, and the Study of American Elections
Part III: Participation
6: Michael D. Martinez: Why Is American Turnout So Low, and Why Should We Care?
7: Michael P. McDonald: American Voter Turnout in Historical Perspective
8: Fredrick Harris and Daniel Gillion: Expanding the Possibilities: Reconceptualizing Political Participation as a Tool Box
9: Robert D. Brown: Voter Registration: Turnout, Representation, and Reform
10: Robert M. Stein and Greg Vonnahme: Early, Absentee, and Mail-In Voting
11: Karen Mossberger and Caroline J. Tolbert: Digital Democracy: How Politics Online is Changing Electoral Participation
12: R. Michael Alvarez and Thad E. Hall: Voting Technology
Part IV: Vote Choice
13: Larry M. Bartels: The Study of Electoral Behavior
14: William G. Jacoby: The American Voter
15: T.K. Ahn, Robert Huckfeldt, Alexander K. Mayer, and John B. Ryan: Politics, Expertise, and Interdependence within Electorates
16: Maria Armoudian, Ann N Crigler: Constructing the Vote: Media Effects in a Constructionist Model
17: Sunshine Hillygus: Campaign Effects on Vote Choice
18: Thomas Holbrook: Forecasting U.S. Presidential Elections
Part V: Interests, Self- and Otherwise
19: Suzanna Linn, Jonathan Nagler, and Marco A. Morales: Economics, Elections and Voting Behavior
20: John A. Garcia: Latinos and Political Behavior: Defining Community to Examine Critical Complexities
21: Kira Sanbonmatsu: Organizing American Politics, Organizing Gender
22: John C. Green: Gauging the God Gap: Religion and Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections
Part VI: Elections Other than Presidential
23: Barry C. Burden and Amber Wichowsky: Local and National Forces in Congressional Elections
24: Melissa J. Marschall: The Study of Local Elections in American Politics
25: Laura Langer, Meghan Leonard and Andrea Polk: Studying State Judicial Races in a Transformed Electoral Environment
26: Barbara Norrander: Primary Elections
27: Shaun Bowler, Todd Donovan: Direct Democracy in the United States
Part VII: Elites and Institutions
28: Walter J. Stone and Matthew K. Buttice: Voters in Context: The Politics of Citizen Behavior
29: Kenneth M. Goldstein and Matthew Holleque: Getting Up Off the Canvass: Rethinking the Study of Mobilization
30: John H. Aldrich and John D. Griffin: Parties, Elections, and Democratic Politics
31: Peter L. Francia: Organized Interests: Evolution and Influence
32: Lynda Powell and Clyde Wilcox: Money and American Elections
33: Bernard Grofman and Thomas L. Brunell: Redistricting
34: Mark N. Franklin and Till Weber: American Electoral Practices in Comparative Perspective
Part VIII: Reflections
35: Jane Junn: On Participation: Individuals, Dynamic Categories, and the Context of Power
36: Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich and David W. Rohde: Studying American Elections
37: Patricia A. Hurley and Kim Quaile Hill: In Search of Representation Theory

Über Autor(innen)

Leighley, Jan E.
Jan E. Leighley, Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona, has published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and American Politics Quarterly, among others. Her two books include Strength in Numbers? The Political Mobilization of Racial and Ethnic Minorities, published by Princeton University Press, and Mass Media and Politics: A Social Science Perspective. She served as editor (with Kim Quaile Hill) of the American Journal of Political Science, a leading general journal in political science, from 2000-2004 and has served on two advisory panels at the National Science Foundation.