Product Description: Just in time for the coming election year, this book looks at the changing of the guard in 2006 and speculates on where the system may be heading in 2008. It provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which candidates, interest groups, and parties perceived their opportunities and allocated their campaign resources during the midterm elections...read more

Product Description: In the wake of recent legislation, court challenges, and demands for reform, campaign finance remains one of the most important and controversial aspects of the world's oldest democracy. Since 1960, Financing the Election volumes have presented reliable information on the costs and trends of campaign finance in the United States...read more

Dancing without Partners intensively analyzes the relationships among candidates, political parties, and interest groups under the B.C.R.A.'s new regulations in the 2004 election cycle in five battleground states. The chapters assess the ways in which the rules of the game have changed the game itself_and also how they haven't.

Product Description: This very accessible book examines theoretical arguments on the nature of representation, the election process, and leadership battles, with a sharp focus on state legislative process and a critical examination of the election process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Surveying American politics from Eisenhower to Clinton, this text analyzes the role of the election campaign - its promises and processes - on the development of consistent, clear and comprehensive policies. It explores basic issues of governability and the future of democratic theory and practice...read more