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Why Americans Split Their Tickets: Campaigns, Competition, and Divided Government
Burden, Barry C., Kimball, David C.
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Description for Why Americans Split Their Tickets: Campaigns, Competition, and Divided Government
Paperback. Argues that ticket splitting is an unintentional result of congressional campaigns Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPVL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
Why do some voters split their ballots, selecting a Republican for one office and a Democrat for another? Why do voters often choose one party to control the White House while the other controls the Congress? Barry Burden and David Kimball address these fundamental puzzles of American elections by explaining the causes of divided government and debunking the myth that voters prefer the division of power over one-party control. Why Americans Split Their Tickets links recent declines in ticket-splitting to sharpening policy differences between parties and demonstrates why candidates' ideological positions still matter in American elections.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472089840
SKU
V9780472089840
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Ref
99-15
About Burden, Barry C., Kimball, David C.
Barry C. Burden is Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University. David C. Kimball is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.
Reviews for Why Americans Split Their Tickets: Campaigns, Competition, and Divided Government
". . . the most careful and thorough analysis of split-ticket voting yet. It won't settle all of the arguments about the origins of ticket splitting and divided government, but these arguments will now be much better informed. . . . [E]ssential reading for anyone interested in understanding the major trends in U.S. electoral politics of the past several decades." ... Read more