Vital Statistics on American Politics 2015-2016
Vital Statistics on American Politics 2015-2016
hardback
Published:
4 November, 2015
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Description
Students, professional researchers, and interested citizens will find chapters devoted to key subject areas such as elections and political parties, public opinion and voting, the media, the three branches of U.S. government, foreign, military, social and economic policy, and much more. For depth of information and ease of use, this updated edition is the best resource of its kind available and should be a key component of all academic and large public library collections.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781483380315 |
| ISBN10 | 1483380319 |
| Number Of Pages | 480 |
| Item Weight | 730 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
"... As the title infers, this book covers statistics related to politics, such as voter turnout, election results, and campaign finance. However, it also goes beyond the obvious and provides information about the topics that surround and influence politicians in the areas of foreign, social, and economic policy....Students, researchers, historians, and everyday citizens will find useful information on the main subjects that surround politics and the entire political system."
-- Lisa Schultz * American Reference Books Annual *"...The purpose of the work is to "offer readers the numbers that count in American politics"—a goal it accomplishes....Public and academic libraries maintaining political science collections will find this a valuable series to own. Summing Up: Recommended. All libraries/levels." -- T. S. Hefner-Babb * CHOICE *
Author's Bio
Harold W. Stanley is the Geurin-Pettus Distinguished Chair in American Politics and Political Economy at Southern Methodist University (SMU). In 1979, he joined the University of Rochester Department of Political Science and served as its chair from 1996 to 1999. Known as an expert in American national politics and electoral change in the South, Stanley currently serves as associate provost at SMU. Richard G. Niemi is Don Alonzo Watson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, where he has taught for forty-five years and has served as department chair, associate dean for graduate studies, and interim dean. He earned his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1967. Professor Niemi has been a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Lund (Sweden) and at the University of Iowa. In 2007–2009 he was president of the American Political Science Association’s Section on State Politics and Policy. He is a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous works on political socialization, civic education, voting behavior, and various aspects of state politics. He has an ongoing interest in the Native Americans of upstate New York and Wisconsin, from whom he can trace a portion of his ancestry.