The Roads to Congress 2022: Controversies and Competing Visions for America's Future

ISBN-13: 9783031427480 / Angielski

Walter Clark Wilson; Sean D. Foreman; Marcia L. Godwin

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Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: An Overview of the 2022 Midterm Elections

Part II: Primaries and Party Dynamics

Chapter 2: The Fate of Pro-Impeachment Republicans/Trump Endorses

Chapter 3: God Talk or Trump Talk: Trump Congressional Endorsees and Partisan Signals

Chapter 4: Resisting the Wave: Examining Co-partisan Coattail Effects Between the Senate and House 1958-2022

Part III: Governing Elections

Chapter 5: Redistricting for the 2022 Election

Chapter 6: The Maiden Voyage of Michigan’s Redistricting Commission: Winners and Losers

Chapter 7: Don’t Leave Me Hanging: Twenty Years of Florida Elections Post HAVA

Part IV: Participation and Representation

Chapter 8: The Impact of Legislative Retirements on Congressional Diversity

Chapter 9: Voter Turnout: Motivations and Electoral Implicatoins

Chapter 10: Campaign Donations and Surrogate Representation

Chapter 11: New Perspectives on Partisanship, Electoral Competition, and Campaign Finance Behavior in congressional Elections

Part IV: On the Trail: Key Campaigns in 2022

Chapter 12: Virginia’s 2^nd Congressional District: Does Redistricting Matter?

Chapter 13: Three of a Kind: Iowa’s Unique Congressional Competitiveness

Chapter 14: 2022 New Hampshire U.S. Senate Race

Chapter 15: 2022 Ohio U.S. Senate Race: A Test of Ohio’s Redness and National Political Role

Chapter 16: 2022 U.S. Nevada Senate Race: The Effects of in-migration and the Rise of Nonpartisan Voters in a Swing State

Chapter 17: 2022 U.S. Georgia Senate Race

Chapter 18: 2022 Pennsylvania U.S. Senate Race: They Keystone State becomes the Key to a Senate Majority

Part VI: Conclusion

Chapter 19: Lessons Learned: A Look Back and the Road Ahead

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Sean D. Foreman is Professor of Political Science at Barry University, USA.

Marcia L. Godwin is Professor of Public Administration at the University of La Verne, USA. 

Walter Clark Wilson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.

Blurb

This book analyzes House and Senate campaigns in the 2022 midterm elections to reveal how distinctive campaign dynamics have a collective national impact. Despite serious efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential race that went mostly unopposed by Republicans, the GOP appeared poised to gain seats, and perhaps control of Congress less than two years later. Their strong prospects reflected the familiar surge and decline of partisan electorates that political scientists have long used to explain midterm election outcomes. But despite a lingering global pandemic, the highest inflation in two generations, Wall Street facing its first bear market in more than a decade, the return of war among developed nations to the international stage, and largely successful efforts by a former President to maintain his grip on a party that lost the 2020 popular vote by 9 million, the story was clearly more complicated than the simple surge and decline thesis would suggest. Arriving on the heels of unprecedented challenges for democracy in America and surprising midterm election outcomes, The Roads to Congress 2022 provides an essential guide to understanding contemporary developments, with thematic chapters authored by more than thirty experts in campaigns and elections that explore the evolving state of party politics, electoral governance, redistricting, participation and representation, and profile the key races of the season.

Sean D. Foreman is Professor of Political Science at Barry University, USA.

Marcia L. Godwin is Professor of Public Administration at the University of La Verne, USA.

Walter Clark Wilson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.