Counting the votes : a new way to analyze America's presidential elections / G. Scott Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, G. Scott.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--United States--Elections.

Presidents.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (508 p.)

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Counting the Votes: A New Way to Analyze America's Presidential Elections isn't your typical history book about presidential elections. Nor is it like most statistical analyses of election results. What this unusual book does offer is an array of innovative statistics-campaign score (CS), potential index (PI), return on potential (ROP), and equalized vote totals (EV*EQ), among others-that provides a provocative, intriguing, and fresh perspective on past presidential candidates and campaigns. Presenting information that has never been compiled and presented before, author G. Scott Thomas pr

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""ONE: Filling the Statistical Void""; ""TWO: The Elite Era: 1789�1836""; ""THREE: The Volatile Era: 1840�1908""; ""FOUR: The Progressive Era: 1912�1956""; ""FIVE: The Modern Era: 1960�2012""; ""SIX: The Official Record Book of Presidential Politics""; ""SEVEN: The Directory of Presidential Candidates""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400632631

9798216066880

9781440838835

1440838836

OCLC:

916954297

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9798400632631