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The VP Advantage : How running mates influence home state voting in presidential elections /
A critical look at the election process and the presidency, as well as a thorough and insightful analysis of an understudied aspect of the executive branch of government in the USA.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Table of figures; Table of tables; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Origins and evolution of the vice presidential home state advantage; Historical perspective; The early republic; Post-Reconstruction; Post-World War II; The modern era; What changed?; Is the perception of a vice presidential home state advantage really dead?; An enduring perception; Notes; 2 The home state advantage is dead ... long live the home state advantage!; Media coverage; Content analysis: Data and methodology; Content analysis: Results.
- Content analysis: DiscussionPresidential campaigns; Campaign advisers; Presidential candidates; Conclusion; Notes; 3 When perception becomes campaign reality; Vice presidential selection; Data and methodology; Empirical results; Discussion; Campaign strategy; Case study: John Edwards, 2004; Case study: Sarah Palin, 2008; Case study: Joe Biden, 2008; Case study: Paul Ryan, 2012; Empirical analysis: Campaign visits to Wisconsin, 2012; Empirical analysis: Campaign advertisements in Wisconsin, 2012; Conclusion; Notes.
- 4 An empirical analysis of the vice presidential home state advantage (state-level data)The friends and neighbors hypothesis; Empirical evidence; Applicability to presidential elections; Measuring the HSA; Descriptive measures; The Lewis-Beck and Rice equation; Empirical results; Causes of the vice presidential home state advantage; Interactive effect: Population x experience; Data and methodology; Empirical results; Discussion; An alternative approach: Fixed effects regression; Data and methodology; Empirical results; Conclusion; Notes.
- 5 An empirical analysis of the vice presidential home state advantage (individual-level data)Data and methodology; Respondent sample; Survey measures; Independent variables; Dependent variables; Empirical analysis; Vote choice models; Alternative HSA models; Candidate evaluation models; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Did LBJ really "deliver" Texas ... and the South?; "We couldn't have won the South without Johnson"; Vice presidential selection; Vice presidential advantage; "Lyndon Benedict Johnson"; Ambition; "Betrayal"; Empirical analysis: ANES, 1960; Data and methodology; Empirical results.
- Empirical analysis: Kennedy-Johnson campaign pollingTexas; Louisiana; Conclusion; Notes; 7 Has the vice presidential home state advantage ever decided an election?; A historical analysis of potentially decisive vice presidential HSAs; Historical introduction; Historical examples; Discussion; A counterfactual analysis of potentially decisive vice presidential HSAs; Qualifying elections; Jeanne Shaheen, 2000; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; 8 Who votes for the running mate, anyway?; Literature review; Context; Evidence; Empirical analysis; Vote choice models; Candidate evaluation models.