Shifting the focal point from incumbency to open seat competition in the U.S. House of Representatives is the task this book embraces. In the process, the authors demonstrate the importance of candidates and competition, and the role of money, gender, and special elections in determining how open seats get filled and when partisan changes occur.
Shifting the focal point from incumbency to open seat competition in the U.S. House of Representatives is the task this book embraces. In the process,...
The authors systematically analyze runoff elections by assembling a data set that includes primary and general election returns for those states that regularly use runoffs for selecting state legislative, executive, and congressional officials. They also draw upon data for many municipal offices nationwide and examine court cases and legislative efforts aimed at abolishing or altering runoffs.
Originally published in 1992.
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The authors systematically analyze runoff elections by assembling a data set that includes primary and general election returns for those states that ...
Charles S., III Bullock Scott E. Buchanan Ronald Keith Gaddie
The death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946 launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most unusual political events in U.S. history: the state had three active governors at once, each claiming that he was the true elected official.
This is the first full-length examination of that episode, which wasn t just a crazy quirk of Georgia politics (though it was that) but the decisive battle in a struggle between the state s progressive and rustic forces that had continued since the onset of the Great Depression. In 1946, rural forces aided by the county...
The death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946 launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most unusual political e...
