Editors:
- Features detailed case studies of ten competitive House races and twelve high-profile U.S. Senate campaigns
- Analyzes the effects of the historic presidential race on down-ticket races for Senate and House of Representative
- Gathers leading election specialists to offer insights and elucidate why certain outcomes occurred in the most competitive races for Congress seats
- Covers cutting-edge topics including social media campaigning and voter registration laws
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Setting the Context
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Front Matter
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U.S. House of Representatives
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Front Matter
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About this book
Keywords
- Congress 2016
- American congressional elections
- American Senate
- American House
- 114th Congress
- Twitter and politics
- Trump Twitter
- voter registration laws
- voter suppression
- female congressional candidates
- minority congressional candidates
- California 49th
- Colorado 6th
- Illinois 10th
- Iowa 1st
- New York 19th
- New York 22nd
- New York 24th
- Texas 23rd
Editors and Affiliations
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Political Science, Barry University, Miami, USA
Sean D. Foreman
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Public Administration, University of La Verne, La Verne, USA
Marcia L. Godwin
About the editors
Marcia L. Godwin is Professor and Director of the Master of Public Administration Program at the University of La Verne, USA. She has extensive experience in local government administration. Her research has been published in the Journal of Public Affairs Education, Policy Studies Journal, State and Local Government Review, Teaching Public Administration, and other publications. She is co-editor, with Sean D. Foreman, of Local Politics and Mayoral Elections in 21st Century America: The Keys to City Hall (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Roads to Congress 2016
Book Subtitle: American Elections in a Divided Landscape
Editors: Sean D. Foreman, Marcia L. Godwin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58094-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58093-7Published: 19 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86319-1Published: 14 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58094-4Published: 30 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 406
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Electoral Politics, Political Sociology, Cultural Policy and Politics