Campaigns and Elections

by John Sides

The #1 book examines contemporary campaigns and elections—now updated through 2020 
Thoroughly revised and updated through the 2020 elections, the Fourth Edition of Campaigns & Elections uses a consistent framework to reveal the strategies and choices that face candidates and other practitioners in the American political system. The authors have set out to help students answer the many questions they have about campaigns while spotlighting contemporary political science research to help them do so.  This purchase offers access to the digital ebook only.

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction, School, Academic, Political Science

Kindle Edition

First published October 14, 2011

Reviews

[Patrick "P.C."]

This was a highly informative book but it focused on candidate campaigns. Which is fine, but it did fill in some interesting pieces on voter behavior, some data that I now know we need, and a bit about ballot initiatives.

[Darlene Ball]

Excellent

Read this book as part of a college course. Hard read but very through. Historic aspect most interesting. Recommend reading

[Mills College Library]

324.973 S5687 2019

[Jade]

Fun I'm the first review here (woo) and while the cover sucks this is a really in-depth yet digestible outlining of US campaigns and elections and it covers everything from the rules of the game to the fundamentals to the power of the media. Read for POL 3325 US Campaigns and Elections

[Audrey Stark]

Professor Sides assigned this text for our C&E course. It was not as dry and dull as I anticipated, but it's not something I would have read willingly.

[Tyler]

The book was okay.