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Electing America's Governors : The Politics of Executive Elections / by D. Leal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leal, David L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--Politics and government.
- Europe.
- Political science.
- European Politics.
- Political Science.
- Local Subjects:
- European Politics.
- Political Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (VIII, 249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2006.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book studies the election of American state governors, 'an increasingly important group of political leaders', and makes comparisons with Senate and presidential elections.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Electing America's Governors: The Politics of Executive Elections
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Why Study How Governors Are Elected?
- 2 Election Outcomes: Campaign Expenditures and Candidate Quality
- 3 Election Outcomes: State and National Economic and Social Conditions
- 4 Voter Turnout: Competition, Candidates, and Conditions
- 5 Candidate Quality Revisited
- 6 Gubernatorial versus Senate Election Dynamics: Progressive Ambition
- 7 Gubernatorial versus Senate Election Dynamics: Electoral Competition and Campaign Intensity
- 8 Gubernatorial versus Senate Election Dynamics: Third-Party and Independent Campaigns
- 9 Conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-247)
- ISBN:
- 9786611365875
- 9781281365873
- 1281365874
- 9781403983671
- 1403983674
- OCLC:
- 567962764
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