Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the 2018 congressional elections for scholars, students, and practitioners
- Offers detailed information on the vital demographic and special interest characteristics of districts and states, candidate characteristics, campaign strategies, and voting behaviors
- Contains case studies of key campaigns and elections written by local experts with an inside view into the politics of their state
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Congress in Transition
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U.S. House
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U.S. Senate
Keywords
- congressional politics
- midterm elections
- house of representatives
- senate
- party politics
- campaigns
- incumbent
- state election
- voting behavior
- American politics
- American government
- Trump Era
- political contest
- partisan politics
- policy making
- voting
- Legislative politics
- Electoral politics
- Social media
- Representation
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marcia L. Godwin is Professor of Public Administration at the University of La Verne, USA.
Walter Clark Wilson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Roads to Congress 2018
Book Subtitle: American Elections in the Trump Era
Editors: Sean D. Foreman, Marcia L. Godwin, Walter Clark Wilson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19819-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19818-3Published: 24 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19821-3Published: 25 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19819-0Published: 09 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 319
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: US Politics, Electoral Politics, Governance and Government, Legislative and Executive Politics