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The roads to Congress 2012
The 2012 congressional elections played an equally vital role in determining the future course of America as the presidential race that topped the electoral ticket. Readers of this book will gain insights about the formative aspects of the 2012 campaign season as well as in depth coverage of key races for Congress. Exclusive to this volume are three chapters that look at important processes which impacted the campaign cycle: voter suppression laws passed in nearly every state, the role of Super PACs and independent expenditures in the wake of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, and the results of redistricting and partisan gerrymandering throughout the country. Then the case studies follow the path of seven House and six Senate races from inception to election postmortem. The chapters are both narrative and provide analysis of an array of interesting and diverse contests from throughout the country. Each entry was written by one or more experts living in the state or region of the race. The authors provide succinct and highly readable chapters meant to illustrate the distinctive nature of the campaigns they are examining. Readers will see individual campaigns and elections “up close” and be able to compare and contrast one from another because of the common format employed throughout the book. Taken together, the chapters reveal that the roads to Congress, while similar in so many ways, each follow a unique route to Capitol Hill.
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Cases in Congressional campaigns : split decision
\"This carefully chosen sample of 2018 congressional campaigns provides readers with an account of the campaign battles that took place across the nation. Although Democrats seemed to be poised for a big blue wave of victory following Donald Trump's historic and divisive 2016 election, the Midterms yielded instead a split decision. Looking at issues ranging from the Kavanaugh confirmation, health care, the economy, and the impact of President Trump, this book traces the dynamics at work in the 2018 Midterm elections. The editors open with an explanation of the trends in this election cycle, followed by eight in-depth case studies of House and Senate toss-up races involving seats held by endangered Republican incumbents. The book shows how 2018 fits into the context of precursor midterm campaigns and what the analysis of competitive states and districts holds for 2020. Aimed at a wide variety of college courses as well as general interest readers, this book tells the story of the 2018 Midterms in fascinating detail\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The roads to Congress 2010
The 2010 Midterm Elections were momentous in the history of U.S. campaigns. Readers of this book will follow the path of seven House and six Senate races from inception to election postmortem. The chapters are both narrative and provide analysis of an array of interesting and diverse contests from throughout the country. Each entry was written by one or more experts living in the state or region of the race. The authors provide succinct and highly readable chapters meant to illustrate the distinctive nature of the campaigns they are examining. Readers will see individual campaigns and elections \"up close\" and be able to compare and contrast one from another because of the common format employed throughout the book. Taken together, the chapters reveal that the roads to Congress, while similar in so many ways, each follow a unique route to Capitol Hill.
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The New Black Politician
At the beginning of the Twenty-First Century, a vanguard of young, affluent black leadership has emerged, often clashing with older generations of black leadership for power. The 2002 Newark mayoral race, which featured a contentious battle between the young black challenger Cory Booker and the more established black incumbent Sharpe James, was one of a series of contests in which young, well-educated, moderate black politicians challenged civil rights veterans for power. In The New Black Politician, Andra Gillespie uses Newark as a case study to explain the breakdown of racial unity in black politics, describing how black political entrepreneurs build the political alliances that allow them to be more diversely established with the electorate. Based on rich ethnographic data from six years of intense and ongoing research, Gillespie shows that while both poor and affluent blacks pay lip service to racial cohesion and to continuing the goals of the Civil Rights Movement, the reality is that both groups harbor different visions of how to achieve those goals and what those goals will look like once achieved. This, she argues, leads to class conflict and a very public breakdown in black political unity, providing further evidence of the futility of identifying a single cadre of leadership for black communities. Full of provocative interviews with many of the key players in Newark, including Cory Booker himself, this book provides an on the ground understanding of contemporary Black and mayoral politics
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At This Defining Moment
In January 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th president of the
United States. In the weeks and months following the election, as
in those that preceded it, countless social observers from across
the ideological spectrum commented upon the cultural, social and
political significance of \"the Obama phenomenon.\" In \"At this
Defining Moment,\" Enid Logan provides a nuanced analysis framed by
innovative theoretical insights to explore how Barack Obama's
presidential candidacy both reflected and shaped the dynamics of
race in the contemporary United States. Using the 2008 election as
a case study of U.S. race relations, and based on a wealth of
empirical data that includes an analysis of over 1,500 newspaper
articles, blog postings, and other forms of public speech collected
over a 3 year period, Logan claims that while race played a central
role in the 2008 election, it was in several respects different
from the past. Logan ultimately concludes that while the selection
of an individual African American man as president does not mean
that racism is dead in the contemporary United States, we must also
think creatively and expansively about what the election does mean
for the nation and for the evolving contours of race in the 21st
century.
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The Campaign Finance Cases
Rarely does the Supreme Court reverse itself as quickly and
profoundly as it did in recent campaign finance cases, with the
Citizens United decision of 2010 undoing the constraints
of the McCain-Feingold Act upheld in McConnell v. Federal
Election Commission (2003). And rarely have the stakes seemed
so high, as billionaires vie for elected office and dark money
floods political campaigns. In timely fashion, this new edition
updates Melvin Urofsky's classic study of campaign finance law,
bringing his cogent analysis of the relevant statutes and court
cases up to date. Urofsky explains in clear and convincing language
what was-and is-at stake in the twists and turns of campaign
finance laws taken up by the nation's highest court in the past
decades. Beginning with Buckley v. Valeo (1976) and moving
through McConnell, Citizens United , and finally
McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (2014), Urofsky
discusses the two principles at issue in these cases: freedom of
political speech, and the protection of the political process from
undue influence. Conventional wisdom holds that in such cases
liberals want greater restrictions and conservatives want
corporations to have greater freedom to influence voters. But
working from a rich store of primary sources, probing the
motivations and ideas of all participants in the campaign finance
legal story, Urofsky reveals a far more complex picture, one whose
significance transcends simple political ideologies. In a time of
controversies over political speech in the blogosphere, social
media, and cable news, and claims of electoral fraud, The
Campaign Finance Cases offers a much-needed, balanced account
of how issues critical to American democracy figure in the
adjudication of campaign finance law, and how a changing political
and media landscape might alter the process.
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The roads to congress 2014
This book provides sensible analysis of overarching themes (performance of the 113th Congress, voting laws, campaign finance, and use of social media) from the 2014 campaign cycle, as well as case studies of important congressional races. Collectively, the concepts and cases give a compelling narrative explanation of America's electoral process and the keys to winning vital elections.
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Christianity Today, J. Howard Pew, and the Business of Conservative Evangelicalism
Founded in 1956 by Billy Graham, L. Nelson Bell, and a cadre of evangelical theologians and business leaders, Christianity Today (CT) was—and still is—the world’s foremost Christian periodical. From the late 1950s through the early 1970s, CT’s editors also branded it as a new vehicle for conservative discourse and public assertiveness, especially regarding the relationship of the state to church, business, and society. Given CT’s theological and political stances, it garnered financial support and institutional direction from oil executive J. Howard Pew. This essay examines Pew’s contributions as a way of understanding the crucial role played by business elites in the construction of American conservative evangelicalism. Moreover, through a case study of CT, this essay re-periodizes the origins of corporate-evangelical alliances to the early twentieth century and evaluates the relative successes and failures of conservatives in postwar evangelicalism, state policy, and cultural politics.
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