An eye-opening look at how and why America has become so politically polarized
Many continue to believe that the United States is a nation of political moderates. In fact, it is a nation divided. It has been so for some time and has grown more so. This book provides a new and historically grounded perspective on the polarization of America, systematically documenting how and why it happened.
Polarized presents commonsense benchmarks to measure polarization, draws data from a wide range of historical sources, and carefully assesses the quality of the evidence. Through an innovative and insightful use of circumstantial evidence, it provides a much-needed reality check to claims about polarization. This rigorous yet engaging and accessible book examines how polarization displaced pluralism and how this affected American democracy and civil society.
Polarized challenges the widely held belief that polarization is the product of party and media elites, revealing instead how the American public in the 1960s set in motion the increase of polarization. American politics became highly polarized from the bottom up, not the top down, and this began much earlier than often thought. The Democrats and the Republicans are now ideologically distant from each other and about equally distant from the political center. Polarized also explains why the parties are polarized at all, despite their battle for the decisive median voter. No subject is more central to understanding American politics than political polarization, and no other book offers a more in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the subject than this one.

Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America

Politics & Social Sciences

Campbell, James E.

Politics & Government

Princeton University Press

Before the Vote: Forecasting American National Elections

Over the last 50 years, the role of polling has taken on increasing prominence in the American electoral process. This book brings together some of the leading figures in political science to present their election forecasts, discuss their methodology, and present their critiques of the forecasting enterprise. They consider whether more accurate models of predicting voting behavior damages the political climate by making politicians increasingly enslaved by pollsters, and the effect on turnout when there is a broad consensus of who the winner will be.

Social Sciences

Sage.

An intriguing phenomenon in American electoral politics is the loss of seats by the president's party in midterm congressional elections. Between 1862 and 1990, the president's party lost seats in the House of Representatives in 32 of the 33 midterm elections. In his new study, James Campbell examines explanations for these midterm losses and explores how presidential elections influence congressional elections.After reviewing the two major theories of midterm electoral change-the "surge and decline" theory and the theory of midterms as referenda on presidential performance Campbell draws upon each to propose and test a new theory. He asserts that in the years of presidential elections congressmen ride presidential coattails into office, while in midterm elections such candidates are stranded. An additional factor is the strength of the presidential vote, which influences the number of seats that are won, only to be lost later.Finally, Campbell examines how the presidential pulse may affect electoral accountability, the relationship between Congress and the president, and the relative strength of Congress, the president, and political parties. He explores the implications of the presidential pulse for understanding electoral change, evaluating the American voter'scompetence, and assessing the importance of split-ticket voting.Including both election returns and survey data, The Presidential Pulse of Congressional Elections offers a fresh perspective on congressional elections, voting behavior, Congress, and the presidency.

The Presidential Pulse of Congressional Elections

University Press of Kentucky

An intriguing phenomenon in American electoral politics is the loss of seats by the president's party in midterm congressional elections. Between 1862 and 1990, the president's party lost seats in the House of Representatives in 32 of the 33 midterm elections. In his new study, James Campbell examines explanations for these midterm losses and explores how presidential elections influence congressional elections.After reviewing the two major theories of midterm electoral change - the "surge and decline" theory and the theory of midterms as referenda on presidential performance - Campbell draws upon each to propose and test a new theory. He asserts that in the years of presidential elections congressmen ride presidential coattails into office, while in midterm elections such candidates are stranded. An additional factor is the strength of the presidential vote, which influences the number of seats that are won, only to be lost later.Finally, Cambell examines how the presidential pulse may affect electoral accountability, the relationship between Congress and the president, and the relative strength of Congress, the president, and political parties. He explores the implications of the presidential pulse for understanding electoral change, evaluating the American voter's competence, and assessing the importance of split-ticket voting.Including both election returns and survey data, this work offers a fresh perspective on congressional elections, voting behavior, Congress, and the presidency.

Univ Pr of Kentucky

Campbell (political science, Louisiana State U.) considers the reasons why the Democrats dominated the House elections for four decades and why they lost control in 1994, examining structural advantages that helped congressional Democrats consistently win most of the very-low- turnout districts, or "cheap seats." He explores theoretical issues of representation that cheap seats raise, and offers proposals to change the system. For general readers as well as scholars. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Cheap Seats: The Democratic Party's Advantage in U.S. House Elections (Parliaments and Legislatures Series)

Ohio State Univ Pr

Tiny marker mark on top edge. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Solid Book.

The American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote (Joseph V. Hughes, Jr., and Holly O. Hughes Series in the Presidency and Leadership Studies, No. 6)

Texas A & M Univ Pr

American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote (Joseph V. Hughes, Jr., and Holly O. Hughes Series in the Presidency and Leadership Studies, No. 6)

This book considers the premise that we have all experienced brokenness and woundedness, to some degree, in our lives. The book expounds upon the book by the same title by Henri J.M. Nouwen, a renowned theologian and scholar. There are people who are considered by themselves, and others, to be wounded healers, entering into the lives of others who are experiencing loneliness, grief, pain - both physical, emotional, and spiritual - , depression with or without suicidal thoughts, anxiety, PTSD, gender and sexuality identification problems. The are the people in our midst who are asking themselves, "Who Am I?" and who wonder if their broken, wounded condition will ever improve. It contains essays, reflections, poetry, short stories, and sermons from the two authors, all of which are designed to describe the conditions of woundedness and healing. We all have healers - angels, if you will, who are humans - who come into our lives to assist, even guide, us toward a state of healing. These "angels", wounded healers can appears as family, friends, loved ones, teachers, counselors, therapists, spiritual guides, and a variety of others - all of whom desire to enter fully into our suffering and can share their own wounds in such a way that Oneness can be discovered and a connection with our Creator can be be established.

The Wounded Healer: with thanks, and apologies, to Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Healing Spirit)

Religion & Spirituality

Williams-Hooker PhD, Rev. Bucky

New Age & Spirituality

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Reporting data and predicting trends through the 2008 campaign, this classroom-tested volume offers again James E. Campbell’s “theory of the predictable campaign,” incorporating the fundamental conditions that systematically affect the presidential vote: political competition, presidential incumbency, and election-year economic conditions. Campbell’s cogent thinking and clear style present students with a readable survey of presidential elections and political scientists’ ways of studying them. The American Campaign also shows how and why journalists have mistakenly assigned a pattern of unpredictability and critical significance to the vagaries of individual campaigns. This excellent election-year text provides: a summary and assessment of each of the serious predictive models of presidential election outcomes; a historical summary of many of America’s important presidential elections; a significant new contribution to the understanding of presidential campaigns and how they matter.

The American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote

Texas A&M University Press

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Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America

Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America

Before the Vote: Forecasting American National Elections

The Presidential Pulse of Congressional Elections

The Presidential Pulse of Congressional Elections

Cheap Seats: The Democratic Party's Advantage in U.S. House Elections (Parliaments and Legislatures Series)

The American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote (Joseph V. Hughes, Jr., and Holly O. Hughes Series in the Presidency and Leadership Studies, No. 6)

American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote (Joseph V. Hughes, Jr., and Holly O. Hughes Series in the Presidency and Leadership Studies, No. 6)

The Wounded Healer: with thanks, and apologies, to Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Healing Spirit)

The American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote