Description
Thoroughly revised and updated through the 2020 elections, the Fourth Edition of Campaigns & Elections uses a consistent framework to reveal the strategies and choices that face candidates and other practitioners in the American political system. The authors have set out to help students answer the many questions they have about campaigns while spotlighting contemporary political science research to help them do so.
John Sides (Vanderbilt University) studies elections, political campaigns, voter behavior, and public opinion. His work has appeared in numerous major journals. He is coauthor of The Gamble (with Lynn Vavreck) and Identity Crisis (with Vavreck and Michael Tesler) and is a founder of and contributor to The Monkey Cage, a popular Washington Post political science blog.