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Elections A to Z
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Articles examine the election process for President, Congress, and statewide offices, and discuss the roles of political parties and the media, election scandals, and voting rights. This thoroughly...
Articles examine the election process for President, Congress, and statewide offices, and discuss the roles of political parties and the media, election scandals, and voting rights. This thoroughly revised edition of Elections A to Z explains how campaigns and elections, the hallmark of any democracy, are conducted in America. Readers will find new articles on political party development, watershed elections, the divisive 2000 presidential election, campaigning and much more. Also included are: discussions of stages in the campaign process and the general election, the roles of political consultants, the media, and political parties, debates and issues such as term limits, majority-minority districts and campaign finance, amendments, legislation, and court cases that have shaped electoral, campaign, and voting matters, voter turnout and voting rights in America, highlights of presidential elections throughout U.S. history, historic milestones and fascinating stories of scandal and intrigue.
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- Creator
- John L. Moore
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Second edition
- Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, [2003]
- ©2003
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- xvi, 614 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 1568028016, 9781568028019
- OCLC
- ocm52056065
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-581) and index.
- Absentee voting -- Absolute majority -- American Independent Party (1968-) and American Party ( 1972) -- Anti-Federalists (1789-1796) -- Anti-Masonic Party (1832-1836) -- At-Large -- Baker v. Carr -- Ballot access -- Ballot types -- Bandwagon effect -- Beauty contest -- Bellwether -- Bicameral -- Bilingual voters -- Black suffrage -- Blue Dog Democrat -- Boll Weevil -- Border States -- Brass Collar Democrat -- Brokered Convention -- Buckley v. Valeo -- Bullet vote -- Bundling -- Bush v. Gore -- Campaign Basic Stages of -- Campaign buttons -- Campaign finance -- Campaign slogans -- Campaign strategies -- Campaigning -- Candidate centered campaigns -- Canvassing board -- Caucus -- Census -- Chad -- Challenger -- Chronology of Presidential Elections -- Citizens Party (1979-1984) -- Citizenship and voting -- Civil Rights Acts -- Coalition -- Coattails -- Communist Party U.S.A. (1924-) -- Congressional District -- Congressional Elections -- Conservative Party ( 1860) -- Contested Elections -- Crossover voting -- Cumulative voting -- Dark House -- Debates -- Delegates -- Democracy -- Democratic National Committee -- Democratic Party (1832-) -- Democratic-Republican Party (1796-1828) -- Direct Election -- District of Columbia -- Districts, wards, and precincts -- Election cycle -- Election day -- Election fraud -- Electoral anomalies -- Electoral behavior -- Electoral College and votes -- Entrance polls -- Equal time and rebuttal rules -- Exit polls -- Favorite son -- Federal Election Commission -- Federal Workers' Political Activity -- Federalist Party (1789-1816) -- Forecasting Election Results -- Franchise -- Free Soil Party (1848-1852) -- Freeholder -- Front-Loading -- Front-Runner -- Fusionism -- Gerrymander -- Get out the vote -- Governor -- Grandfather clause -- Green Party (1876-1884) -- Hard money -- Historic milestones in U.S. elections -- Home rule -- House of Representatives, electing -- House of Representatives, qualifications -- Ideology -- Incumbency -- Independent -- Initiatives and Referendums -- Interest group -- International and U.S. elections compared -- Iowa Caucus -- Issue voting -- Judicial System -- Junior Tuesday -- Know nothing (American) Party (1856) -- Lame Duck -- Landslide -- Liberal Party (1944-2006) -- Liberal Republican Party (1872) -- Libertarian Party (1971-) -- Liberty Party (1839-1848) -- Lieutenant Governor -- Literacy tests -- Minority-Minority District -- Mandate -- Media coverage of campaign -- Media use by campaigns -- Midterm election -- Motor Voter Act -- Mugwump -- Multimember Districts -- National Democratic Party (1896) -- National Election Studies -- National Party Conventions -- National Republican Party (1828-1932) -- National Unity Party (Independent John B. Anderson)(1980-1988) -- National Law Party (1992-) -- Nature of representation -- Negative campaigning -- New Alliance Party (1988-1992) -- New Hampshire Primary -- One person, one vote -- Oregon v. Mitchell -- Party endorsement of candidates -- Party Identification by voters -- Peace and Freedom Party (1967-1996) -- People's Party (1971-) -- Platform -- Plurality -- Pocketbook voting -- Political Action Committees -- Political advertising -- Political consultants -- Political culture in America -- Political party development -- Political socialization of the public -- Poll taxes -- Popular vote -- Populist (People's) Party (1891-1908, 1984-) -- Postconvention Bounce -- President, nominating and electing -- President, qualifications -- Presidential draft -- Presidential primaries -- Presidential Selection Reforms -- Primary types -- Progressive Labor Party (1960-) -- Progressive Party-Bull Moose (1912) -- Progressive Party (La Follette) (1924) -- Progressive Party (Wallace) (1948) -- Prohibition Party (1869-) -- Proportional representation -- Public financing of campaigns -- Public opinion -- Push poll -- Racial redistricting -- Realignments and dealignments -- Reappointment and redistricting -- Recount -- Reform Party (1995-) -- Removal from office -- Republican Government -- Republican National Committee -- Republican Party (1854-) -- Retrospective voting -- Right to vote -- Running mate -- Runoff primary - Scandals -- Senate, electing -- Senate, qualifications -- Shaw v. Reno -- Single-issue voting -- Single-Member District -- Socialist Labor Party (1888-) -- Socialist Party (1901-) -- Socialist Workers Party (1938-) -- Soft money -- Sophisticated voting -- Sore Loser laws -- Southern (Breckinridge) Democrats (1860) -- Southern Primary -- Special elections -- Split-and straight-ticket voting -- Stages in an election -- Stalking horse -- State and Federal election responsibilities -- State legislator -- States' Rights Democratic Party (1948) -- Straw vote -- Super Tuesday -- Superdelegate -- Term limits -- Thermometer ratings -- Third parties -- Threshold rules -- Twenty-six Amendment -- Two-Party System -- Two-thirds rule -- Unicameral -- Union Party (1936) -- Unit rule -- United We Stand America (Independent Ross Perot) (1992-) -- U.S. Labor Party (Independent Lyndon LaRouche 1973-) -- U.S. Taxpayers Party (1992-) -- Vice President -- Voter registration -- Voter turnout -- Voting machines -- Voting Rights Act -- Watershed elections -- Whig Party (1834-1856) -- Whistle stop -- White primary -- Winner take all -- Women's suffrage -- Workers World Party (1959-) -- Write-in vote -- Youth suffrage -- ZZZ