A cross-national study of the effect of economic conditions on voting behavior in the United States and the Western democracies

This book examines how electoral laws, the timing of election, the ideological orientation of governments, and the nature of competition between political parti

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"It's the economy, stupid," as Democratic strategist James Carville would say. After many years of study, Ray C. Fair has found that the state of the economy ha

The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are the essential guide to the study of American political life in the 21st Century. With engaging contributions from