Tells of a story about incremental policymaking and inter-branch struggle, about institutional design and unintended consequences, about the influence of interest groups and the media, and about the health of our representative democracy. This book traces an issue from inception, through legislation and litigation, and finally to implementation.
Tells of a story about incremental policymaking and inter-branch struggle, about institutional design and unintended consequences, about the influence...
Meena Bose Lara Michelle Brown Victoria A. Farrar-Myers
This volume examines the challenges of winning the White House and becoming president in the twenty-first century. Beginning with the resources candidates must secure to gain their party s nomination, continuing through the general election campaign, and concluding with the challenges that the victor will face upon taking office, From Votes to Victory presents cogent analysis of the path from campaign to governance.
In focusing on the 2008 presidential race as a case study of twenty-first century presidential campaigns, the volume offers an early assessment of the structural...
This volume examines the challenges of winning the White House and becoming president in the twenty-first century. Beginning with the resources can...
..". this timely and fascinating book ... is a handbook for those interested in gaining perspective on the appearance of and actual corruption in the American system, and ... can be read cover to cover to great profit ... it will find its way into classrooms. Scholars will use it as a means to engage and extend many of its provocative findings. However it is used, the effort is well worth the time invested." - Presidential Studies Quarterly "This volume, edited by two well-respected professors of US politics, represents the fine effort of nearly a dozen scholars to tackle this challenging...
..". this timely and fascinating book ... is a handbook for those interested in gaining perspective on the appearance of and actual corruption in the ...