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Zusatztext The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a grandly ambitious undertaking. Success depends on coverage! scholarship! and editorial command. Measured by these standards! the Handbooks will be immensely valuable to the discipline. The right topics are analyzed by knowledgeable scholars and managed by experienced editors. A five-star project that will influence teaching and research for decades. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are the essential guide to the study of American political life in the 21st Century. With engaging contributions from the major figures in the field The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior provides the key point of reference for anyone working in American Politics today Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are the essential guide to the study of American political life in the 21st Century. With engaging contributions from the major figures in the field The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior provides the key point of reference for anyone working in American Politics today 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. Pre...
