Issues and Elections: Presidential Voting in Contemporary America--A Revisionist View

ISBN-13: 9780367012793 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 152 str.

Euel W. Elliott

Opis

This volume attempts to determine the impact of issues on the voting of individuals and the election outcomes in presidential races, 1972 to the present. The author investigates the areas of Vietnam, unemployment, inflation, crime and the budget deficit when looking at how individuals see issue as important and then looks at the difference between the parties in terms of their ability to handle the issue.

Spis treści

1 Introduction 2 Issues and Presidential Elections 3 The 1972 Election: Do Landslides Produce Mandates? 4 The 1976 Election: The Emergence of Economic Issues, 5 The 1980 Election: The Economy Revisited 6 The 1984 Election: 1972 Replayed? 7 Making Sense of It All: Summary And Conclusions 8 Postscript: The 1988 Presidential Election

O autorze

Euel W Elliott