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9%OFFClarke, Harold D.; Kornberg, Allan; Scotto, Thomas J. - Making Political Choices: Canada and the United States - 9780802096746 - V9780802096746
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Making Political Choices: Canada and the United States

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Description for Making Political Choices: Canada and the United States paperback. "A timely and important contribution to voting literature. Both Canadians and Americans will develop a better understanding of their neighbours' elections, but will also gain many new insights into the politics of their own country." - Larry LeDuc, University of Toronto Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 540.

Recent national elections in Canada and the United States have been exciting, consequential contests. In the 2004 federal election in Canada, the Liberal Party narrowly clung to power after a volatile and bitter battle with the new Conservative Party. In 2006, the Conservative Party won a fragile victory, replacing the scandal-ridden Liberal government. In the 2000 American presidential election, Republican George W. Bush became the first candidate in over 100 years to capture the presidency without a majority popular vote. Four years later, Bush finally attained a narrow popular mandate but only after a hard fought campaign. Then, in 2006, ... Read more

In Making Political Choices: Canada and the United States, Harold Clarke, Allan Kornberg, and Thomas Scotto employ a wealth of new survey data to describe these elections and evaluate competing theories of party support and voter turnout. While examining various arguments, the authors contend that a valence politics model provides a powerful explanation of voting behavior in Canada, the United States, and other mature democracies.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802096746
SKU
V9780802096746
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Clarke, Harold D.; Kornberg, Allan; Scotto, Thomas J.
Harold D. Clarke is the Ashbel Smith Professor in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. Allan Kornberg is the Norb F. Schaefer Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He is the co-author, with Harold Clarke, of Citizens and Community: Political Support in a Representative Democracy (Cambridge University Press, ... Read more

Reviews for Making Political Choices: Canada and the United States
Making Political Choices: Canada and the United States is a fascinating, evidence-based journey through some of the problematic and highly dramatic elections held in the United States and Canada over the last 30 years.
American Review of Canadian Studies

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