"Offers a broad scope of statistics on U.S. presidential elections from George Washington to Barack Obama. Entries are presented in vivid and colorful info graphic formats, utilizing graphic organizer
In a fresh infographic approach, fascinating facts about U.S. presidential elections take a new twist and are explained by the numbers. Includes vivid and colorful stats, charts, tables and graphs tha
Examines the evolution of presidential politics—from the election of George Washington, the nation's first president, to the election of Barack Obama, the nation's first black president—including whic
Image Bite Politics is the first book to systematically assess the visual presentation of presidential candidates in network news coverage of elections and to connect these visual images with shifts i
In autumn 1932 Tommy McKnight, a twelve-year-old boy disabled by polio, and bullied at school for his disability--but inspired by Franklin Roosevelt's story and his campaign for the presidency, decide
The Macro Polity, first published in 2002, provides a comprehensive model of American politics at the system level. Focusing on the interactions between citizen evaluations and preferences, government activity and policy, and how the combined acts of citizens and governments influence one another over time, it integrates understandings of matters such as economic outcomes, presidential approval, partisanship, elections, and government policy-making into a single model. Borrowing from the perspective of macroeconomics, it treats electorates, politicians, and governments as unitary actors, making decisions in response to the behavior of other actors. The macro and longitudinal focus makes it possible to directly connect the behaviors of electorate and government. The surprise of macro-level analysis, emerging anew in every chapter, is that order and rationality dominate explanations. This book argues that the electorates and governments that emerge from these analyses respond to one anot
In autumn 1932 Tommy McKnight, a twelve-year-old boy disabled by polio, and bullied at school for his disability--but inspired by Franklin Roosevelt's story and his campaign for the presidency, decide
