Guide to U.S. ElectionsDeborah Kalb The CQ Press Guide to U.S. Elections is a comprehensive, two-volume reference providing information on the U.S. electoral process, in-depth analysis on specific political eras and issues, and everything in between. Thoroughly revised and infused with new data, analysis, and discussion of issues relating to elections through 2014, the Guide will include chapters on:
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Contents
Volume | ii |
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS | ii |
TABLES | ii |
ELECTIONS IN AMERICA | ii |
THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN | ii |
AN EXPANDING | ii |
FIGURES | ii |
A Long Painful Struggle | ii |
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES | ii |
An Evolutionary Process | ii |
Volume II | ii |
Nominations Today | ii |
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY RETURNS | ii |
NOMINATING CONVENTIONS | xx |
Controversial Rules | xlviii |
Filling Vacancies | xlviii |
A Victory in Stages | ii |
Removing Obstacles to Voting | ii |
POLITICAL PARTIES | ii |
CAMPAIGN FINANCE | ii |
Controversy Surrounds Financing System | ii |
Campaign Finance Reform in the 1970s and 1980s | ii |
Comprehensive Reform Efforts in the 1980s and 1990s | ii |
New Laws in the 2000s and 2010s | ii |
Election Cycle | ii |
Candidates FundRaising and Spending | ii |
POLITICS AND ISSUES 19452014 | ii |
PostWorld War II Years | ii |
The Vietnam War Years | ii |
Years of Uneasy Peace | ii |
The PostCold War | ii |
A Partisan | ii |
POLITICAL PARTY DEVELOPMENT | ii |
Internal Party Politics | ii |
HISTORICAL PROFILES | ii |
Third Parties Historical and Current | ii |
THE SOUTHERN ELECTORAL | ii |
Georgia | ii |
The Future of Southern Electoral Politics | ii |
INTRODUCTION TO PRESIDENTIAL | ii |
III | ii |
CHRONOLOGY OF PRESIDENTIAL | ii |
Age of Jackson | ii |
Idea of a Party System | ii |
Slavery Divides the Nation | ii |
Postwar Radicalism | ii |
Age of Republicanism | ii |
Age of Reform | ii |
Return to Normalcyand the Roaring Twenties | ii |
New Deal Coalition | ii |
Breakup of Consensus | ii |
New Conservative Discourse | ii |
Clinton | ii |
New Century Old Partisanship | ii |
18311892 | xlviii |
POLITICAL PARTY NOMINEES 1831 | xlviii |
CONVENTION CHRONOLOGY 1831 | xlviii |
KEY CONVENTION BALLOTS | xvii |
POPULAR VOTE RETURNS | 136 |
Minor Candidates | 53 |
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE | 186 |
Methods of Choosing Electors | 194 |
Election by Congress | 1789 |
Counting the Electoral Vote | 1795 |
Reforming the Presidential Election System | 1798 |
ELECTORAL VOTES | 1798 |
Electoral Votes for Vice President 18042012 | 74 |
BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY | 893 |
CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS | 178 |
INTRODUCTION | 179 |
IV | 214 |
REDISTRICTING | 244 |
RETURNS 18242015 | 323 |
Election by State Legislatures | 635 |
U S SENATORS 17892015 | 660 |
SENATE GENERAL ELECTION | 43 |
SENATE PRIMARY ELECTION | 33 |
Compilation of ICPSR Data File | 34 |
19322012 | 12 |
GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS | 295 |
Reference Materials | 1777 |
ELECTION RETURNS 17762014 | 1841 |
ELECTION RETURNS 19192014 | 31 |
Constitutional Provisions and Amendments on Elections | 1466 |
ElectionRelated Web Sites | 112 |
Selected Bibliography | 133 |
House Candidates Index | 164 |
Senate General Election Candidates Index | 2761 |
Senate Primary Candidates Index | 2816 |
Gubernatorial General Election Candidates Index | 2894 |
Gubernatorial Primary Candidates Index | 3001 |
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