The electorate, the campaign, and the office : a unified approach to Senate and House elections / Paul Gronke.

Author
Gronke, Paul, 1961- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2000.
Description
xiv, 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Subject(s)
Summary note
  • "Paul Gronke's study compares electoral contexts, campaigns, and voter decision making in House and Senate elections. Gronke offers new insights into how differences and similarities across offices structure American elections." "Gronke first looks at differences in congressional districts and states, showing that context does not really help us understand why Senate elections feature better candidates, higher spending, and closer outcomes. Next, he turns to campaigns."
  • "Gronke also considers House and Senate voting behavior. Focusing on the 1988 and 1990 elections, he argues that voters do not distinguish between institutions, applying fundamentally the same decision rule regardless of the office being contested. Gronke closes by considering the implications of his results for the way we relate settings, electoral dynamics, and institutional arrangements."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-197) and index.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Ch. 1. Introduction
  • Ch. 2. In Search of a Unified Model of House and Senate Elections
  • Ch. 3. The Setting: Political "Districts" in the U.S. House and Senate
  • Ch. 4. The Campaign: Quality Candidates and Campaign Funding
  • Ch. 5. From Setting to Candidates to Campaigns: Tracing the Causal Chain
  • Ch. 6. Voters in U.S. Legislative Elections
  • Ch. 7. Two Institutions, One Choice?
  • App. A. Media and Demographic Measures from Chapter 3
  • App. B. Variable and Model Information for Chapter 5
  • App. C. Variable Information for Chapter 6.
Other title(s)
Project Muse UPCC books
ISBN
0472111310 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^00031520^
OCLC
43977590
RCP
H - S
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