Jones The 2008 Presidential Elections

A Story in Four Acts
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-10317-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 259 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Political Science and International Studies (R0)

The election of Barack Obama fundamentally changed America's relationship with the outside world. Written by a mix of scholars and practitioners, the chapters cover the entire electoral process and analyze what Obama's victory suggests about the development of America, socially, economically, and in its foreign relations.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: Erik Jones, Salvatore Vassallo Act I: Choosing the Candidates The Democratic Primaries; John A. Gans, Jr. The Republican Primaries; Trevor B. McCrisken Third Parties; William C. Binning Act II: The National Campaigns Setting the Agenda: "Yes We Can"; Jennifer Palmieri A Perfect Campaign: The Role of Money, Organization, and Strategy; Alicia Kolar Prevost  & James A. Thurber The Conventions and Debates; Andrew Wroe Act III: And the Winner Is . . . The Victory of Barack Obama; Michael E. Shin The Other Elections: Congress and the States; B. Guy Peters The New Administration; Fabrizio Bucci Act IV: The Aftermath A New Foreign Policy for the United States?; Mario Del Pero A New U.S. Economy?; Jonathon W. Moses A New U.S. Politics and Society?; Christopher J. Bailey Epilogue; Erik Jones, Salvatore Vassallo

Über Autor(innen)

ERIK JONES is Professor of European Studies at the SAIS Bologna Centre of the Johns Hopkins University, USA and contributing editor of Survival .
  
SALVATORE VASSALLO is Member of Italian Parliament for the Partito Democratico and Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna, Italy.