The Elections of 2024

by Michael Nelson (Editor)

A timely analysis of the historic 2024 elections from some of the leading minds in US political science

The political scientist Michael Nelson and a team of scholars offer here a comprehensive, scholarly, and compelling account of the transformative 2024 elections and their unprecedented immediate aftermath. This diverse cast of experts scrutinizes every stage of the presidential race as well as the concurrent congressional elections in all aspects, from campaigning to media coverage to PACs and fundraising. Supplemented by critical data gathered from exit polling and voting results from primaries, caucuses, and the general election, this volume weighs the consequences of the 2024 elections not only for the presidency but for Congress and the entire U.S. political ecosystem.

Contributors
Marjorie Randon Hershey, Indiana University * Marc J. Hetherington, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill * Charles R. Hunt, Boise State University * Gary C. Jacobson, University of California, San Diego * John Anthony Maltese, University of Georgia * William G. Mayer, Northeastern University * Michael Nelson, Rhodes College * Gerald M. Pomper, Rutgers University * Paul J. Quirk, University of British Columbia * Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College

297 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 25, 2025

About the author

Michael Nelson is the Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College. He has published multiple books, the most recent of which is Resilient America: Electing Nixon, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government (2014). Other recent books are The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776–2014, with Sidney Milkis (2015); The Presidency and the Political System, 10th ed. (2014); and The Elections of 2012 (2013). He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals such as the Journal of Politics and Political Science Quarterly and in periodicals such as Virginia Quarterly Review, the Claremont Review of Books, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Although most of his articles have been about American politics and government, he also has written about C. S. Lewis, Frank Sinatra, Charles Dickens, Garrison Keillor, football, and baseball. More than 50 of these articles have been reprinted in anthologies of political science, history, and English composition. He is editor of the American Presidential Elections book series for the University Press of Kansas and is currently writing a book about the 1992 election.

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