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This easy-to-use handbook presents a fascinating and fresh take on American presidential elections and makes a wide range of statistics available to serious researchers and political fanatics alike.Counting the Votes: A New Way to Analyze America's Presidential Elections isn't your typical history book about presidential elections. Nor is it like most statistical analyses of election results. What this unusual book does offer is an array of innovative statistics-campaign score (CS), potential index (PI), return on potential (ROP), and equalized vote totals (EV*EQ), among others-that provides a provocative, intriguing, and fresh perspective on past presidential candidates and campaigns.
Presenting information that has never been compiled and presented before, author G. Scott Thomas provides reams of statistics for all 57 presidential elections (1789 to the present) as well as essays inspired by those races that explore new interpretations of electoral trends. The book also includes lists of outstanding political performances in 179 statistical categories in addition to complete statistical records for 289 presidential candidates. The unique information and metrics introduced in this book will be invaluable to historians, political scientists, and students who are conducting research into voting trends and will serve as additional tools for their work.
List of contents
ONE: Filling the Statistical Void
TWO: The Elite Era: 1789-1836
THREE: The Volatile Era: 1840-1908
FOUR: The Progressive Era: 1912-1956
FIVE: The Modern Era: 1960-2012
SIX: The Official Record Book of Presidential Politics
SEVEN: The Directory of Presidential Candidates
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
G. SCOTT THOMAS has been a journalist for over thirty years, specializing in stories about business and demographics.The author of over one hundred articles for national magazines like American Demographics, Savvy, and The Wall Street Journal, he has also written seven books, including The Rating Guide to Life in America's Small Cities, Leveling the Field, and The Pursuit of the White House (Greenwood).
