How did Donald Trump secure the Republican nomination when nearly all the available research suggested it should have been impossible? What can we learn about the factors that drove turnout among key voting blocs? And what issues did voters find important in 2016?
Get a big picture understanding of what happened in the 2016 elections and why. Designed to be used as a supplement to American politics texts, this brief overview from Brian Schaffner and John Clark provides a concise analysis, going beyond horserace journalism, and gives students an accessible insight into political scientists′ view of this ground breaking election. Students will benefit from seeing how broader political science concepts apply to a campaign and election that is fresh in their minds. Whether packaged with another SAGE | CQ Press title or used on its own, Schaffner and Clark’s
Making Sense of the 2016 Elections will give your students the key insight they need.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction
The Electoral Landscape in 2016
Choosing the Presidential Nominees
The Invisible Primary
The Democratic Party Decides on Clinton
The Republican Party Decides Not to Decide
The General Election Campaign
The Case for Thinking the Campaign Mattered
The Case for Thinking the Campaign Was of Minimal Importance
Campaigns Are Mostly about Mobilization
The Outcome
Another Electoral College/Popular Vote Split
Where the Election Was Won
How Key Groups Voted
Why People Voted for Trump
The Battle for Control of Congress
How Republicans Kept the Senate Red
Why Republicans Retained Their House Majority
Diversity in Congress
The 2016 Elections in the States
Governors and State Legislatures
Ballot Proposals
Putting the 2016 Election into Context
Notes
About the Authors
Circa l’autore
John A. Clark is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Western Michigan University. Clark’s research focuses on political parties, campaigns and elections, legislative politics, and the politics of the American South. He is the coeditor of Southern Political Party Activists and Party Organization and Activism in the American South, which won the 1999 V. O. Key Award as the best book on Southern politics. He has authored or coauthored more than thirty book chapters and articles in scholarly journals. Since 2002, he and Schaffner have coauthored a series of short monographs analyzing the presidential and midterm elections; 2016 marks the eighth in the series.
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