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Preface | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. 1 | How American Elections Work | 7 |
A | Candidates' Political Communication | 9 |
1 | Political Accountability in a Post-Party Era: An Examination of Candidate and Specialized Platforms in 1992 and 1994 | 9 |
2 | Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in 1988: Its Significance for George Bush's Presidency | 22 |
3 | Clarity or Ambiguity: What Should We Expect From Candidates in American Politics? | 31 |
B | The Role of Television, Advertising, and Polling in American Elections | 43 |
4 | The Image of Democracy: Television's Effect on the American Political System | 43 |
5 | A "Different Voice"? Gender and Political Advertising | 57 |
6 | Who Are "We" and What Do "We" Want? Representations of the Public in Election News | 68 |
C | Campaign Finance: Is the System "Broke"? | 82 |
7 | Public Funding and Political Campaigns in New York City: The Limits of Reform | 82 |
8 | Money, Elections, and Public Policy in New York Politics | 101 |
9 | Best Chance Since Watergate: Campaign Finance Reform in the 105th Congress | 112 |
D | The Role of Parties in Elections | 131 |
10 | The Values of Political Party Activists: Ideology, Elections, and Governing | 131 |
11 | National Party Committees and Presidential Campaigns: Performance and Promise | 151 |
Pt. 2 | The Impact of Elections on Specific Policies | 165 |
12 | Sex, Race, Religion, and Partisan Realignment | 167 |
13 | What Do Women Get for Their Vote? | 191 |
14 | No Race to the Bottom: The 1993 National Voter Registration Act and the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act | 200 |
15 | The Never Ending Story of Welfare Reform | 211 |
16 | The Electoral Connection: Public Influence on Policy Output of the United States Supreme Court | 223 |
Pt. 3 | Rethinking Election Theories and Practices | 239 |
17 | The Mandate Myth: Why Presidential Elections Are Not Public Policy Plebiscites | 241 |
18 | Alternative Electoral Systems: An Answer to Our Governing Crisis | 257 |
19 | The American Electoral System at Century's End: Not Broken, but in Need of Prudent Repair | 273 |
20 | Realignments, the Atomization of Politics, and What We Don't Get from Elections | 283 |
21 | Parliamentary Government in the United States? | 298 |
For Further Reading | 319 | |
Index | 323 | |
About the Contributors | 333 |
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