Presidential Elections: Strategies and Structures of American Politics - Softcover

Nelson W. Polsby was Heller Professor of Political Science and past Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught American politics for forty years. He was a former editor of the American Political Science Review and the Annual Review of Political Science, a Vice President of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, and a former Brookings and Guggenheim Fellow. His other books include Consequences of Party Reform (1983), New Federalist Papers (with Alan Brinkley and Kathleen M. Sullivan, 1997), and How Congress Evolves (2004). AARON WILDAVSKY was Class of 1940 Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and founding dean of BerkeleyOs Graduate (now Goldman) School of Public Policy. DAVID A. HOPKINS is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Readers of this volume will wonder how those who are gone can seem to be so alive in these pages. The answer is the same as for any other classic work. Done right, art outlives the artist, music the composer, and, in my world, teaching the teacher. The great contribution of the gifted is in their legacies. (from the Foreword by Charles O. Jones)

A political science classic nicely updated for the twenty-first century. This new edition includes thorough treatment of recent changes in campaign finance, the growing role of the Internet and the ever-earlier start of presidential nomination contests.This volume has no rival in its shrewd analysis and historical understanding of American electoral politics.... (Schier, Steven E.)

A political science classic nicely updated for the twenty-first century. This new edition includes thorough treatment of recent changes in campaign finance, the growing role of the Internet and the ever-earlier start of presidential nomination contests. This volume has no rival in its shrewd analysis and historical understanding of American electoral politics. (Schier, Steven E.)