Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections

Editor/Author Sabato, Larry J. and Ernst, Howard R.
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Facts On File

Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-1-4381-4181-7
Category: History - United States -- History
Book Status: Available
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Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections provides comprehensive coverage of the American election process and its political parties.

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • A
  • absentee voting
  • African-American suffrage
  • African-American voting trends
  • age requirements for suffrage
  • Alien and Sedition Acts
  • AM talk radio and elections
  • American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
  • American Independent Party (AIP)
  • American Labor Party (ALP)
  • anti-Federalists
  • Anti-Masonic Party
  • Article I of the U.S. Constitution
  • Article II of the U.S. Constitution
  • Article III of the U.S. Constitution
  • Articles of Confederation
  • at-large elections
  • Australian ballot
  • B
  • Baker v. Carr
  • ballot
  • ballot access
  • ballot initiative
  • ballot initiatives on affirmative action
  • ballot initiatives on campaign reform
  • ballot initiatives on environmental issues
  • ballot initiatives on same sex marriage
  • ballot initiatives on tax issues
  • ballot initiatives on term limits
  • bandwagon effect
  • bellwether
  • benchmark poll
  • Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
  • blanket primary
  • Blue Dog Democrats
  • blue states
  • Buckley v. Valeo
  • bullet voting
  • Bullock v. Carter
  • bundling
  • Bush v. Gore
  • butterfly ballot
  • C
  • cable television and elections
  • California primary system
  • California recall
  • campaign buttons
  • campaign consultant
  • campaign contribution limits
  • campaign contributions
  • campaign ethics
  • campaign expenditures
  • campaign finance laws and regulations
  • campaign fund-raising
  • campaign literature
  • campaign manager
  • campaign organization
  • campaign pollster
  • campaign slogans
  • campaign war chest
  • candidate-centered elections
  • casework
  • caucus
  • census
  • chad
  • Christian Coalition (CC)
  • Citizens Party
  • Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
  • citizenship
  • civil rights legislation
  • Civil Rights movement
  • coattail effect
  • Commission on Presidential Debates
  • Committee on Political Education (COPE)
  • Common Cause
  • Communications Act
  • Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA)
  • competitive election
  • Congressional Black Caucus
  • congressional campaign committees
  • congressional district
  • congressional elections
  • constituency
  • Constitutional Convention
  • Contract with America
  • convention bounce
  • coordinated expenditures
  • corporate political action committee (PAC)
  • county chairperson
  • credentials committee
  • critical elections
  • cross-filing
  • crossover voting
  • cumulative voting
  • D
  • dark-horse candidate
  • delegate
  • demagoguery
  • Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)
  • Democratic Leadership Council (DLC)
  • Democratic National Committee (DNC)
  • Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair
  • Democratic National Convention
  • Democratic Party
  • Democratic Party platforms
  • Democratic Party symbol
  • Democratic-Republican Party
  • Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC)
  • direct democracy
  • direct mail use in politcs
  • direct primary
  • dirty campaign tricks
  • disenfranchisement
  • doctrine of responsible parties
  • Dorr's Rebellion
  • Dunn v. Blumstein
  • Duverger's Law
  • E
  • early voting
  • earned media
  • election cycle
  • election day
  • election fraud
  • elections
  • elector
  • Electoral College
  • Electoral College reform plans
  • electorate
  • EMILY's List
  • endorsement
  • equal time rule
  • exit polls
  • exploratory committee
  • F
  • fairness doctrine
  • faithless elector
  • “favorite son”
  • Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
  • Federal Corrupt Practices Act
  • Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA)
  • Federal Election Commission (FEC)
  • Federalist Papers
  • Federalist Party
  • Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • fifty-fifty rule
  • “first past the post” (FPTP)
  • focus groups
  • Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • Free-Soil Party
  • front-loading
  • frontrunner
  • fusion ticket
  • G
  • gender gap in U.S. voting
  • general election
  • general election campaign
  • gerrymandering
  • get-out-the-vote (GOTV)
  • Grand Old Party Action Committee (GOPAC)
  • Grand Old Party (GOP)
  • grandfather clause
  • grassroots
  • Great Compromise
  • Green Party
  • Greenback Party
  • gubernatorial elections
  • H
  • hard money contributions
  • Hatch Act
  • Help America Vote Act (HAVA)
  • Hispanic voting trends
  • home rule
  • horse race journalism
  • House of Representatives elections
  • Hunt Commission
  • I
  • ideological political action committee (PAC)
  • impeachment
  • incumbency advantage
  • independent expenditures
  • interest groups
  • Internet and elections
  • Internet campaign
  • Internet fund-raising
  • Internet voting
  • Iowa caucus
  • IRS checkoff
  • isolationism
  • issue advocacy advertising
  • issue political action committee (PAC)
  • J
  • judicial elections
  • K
  • keynote address at party conventions
  • Know-Nothing Party
  • Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
  • L
  • labor groups
  • labor political action committee (PAC)
  • lame duck
  • Lane v. Wilson
  • leadership political action committee (PAC)
  • League of Conservation Voters (LCV)
  • League of Women Voters
  • Liberal Party
  • Libertarian Party
  • likely voter
  • Lincoln-Douglas debates
  • literacy test
  • lobbyist
  • local and state elections
  • local party organization
  • M
  • machine politics
  • mail fund-raising
  • mail voting
  • majority-minority districts
  • majority party
  • malapportionment
  • mandate
  • marginal district
  • matching funds
  • McCarthyism
  • media and elections
  • media campaign
  • media campaign consultant
  • median voter
  • methods of nominating political candidates
  • midterm congressional elections and the theory of “surge and decline”
  • midterm elections
  • Miller v. Johnson
  • minority party
  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)
  • Mississippi Plan
  • mixed primary
  • MoveOn.Org
  • muckrakers
  • Mugwumps
  • multimember district
  • N
  • name recognition of political candidates
  • “NASCAR dads”
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  • National Election Study (NES)
  • National Organization for Women (NOW)
  • national party committees
  • national party organization
  • National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC)
  • National Republican Senatorial Committee (NCSC)
  • National Unity Campaign
  • National Voter Registration Act (NVRA)
  • Native American suffrage
  • Natural Law Party
  • negative political advertisements
  • network television and elections
  • New Alliance Party
  • New Deal Coalition
  • New Hampshire primary
  • New Jersey Plan
  • Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • Nixon-Kennedy Debates
  • nomination campaign
  • nonpartisan election
  • nonpartisan primary
  • O
  • October Surprise
  • open primary
  • open seat elections
  • opposition party
  • opposition research
  • P
  • paid media
  • partisan voting in Congress
  • party boss
  • party identification
  • party in office
  • party in the electorate
  • party leadership in the House of Representatives
  • party leadership in the Senate
  • party organization
  • party realignment
  • “party switchers”
  • party unity score
  • patronage
  • Pendleton Act
  • penny press
  • People's Party
  • People's Party
  • political action committee (PAC)
  • political advertisements
  • political barnstorming
  • political campaign
  • political candidate
  • political cartoons
  • political challenger
  • political coalitions
  • political faction
  • political ideology
  • political independent
  • political machine of Edward Hull Crump
  • political machine of Harry Byrd
  • political machine of Richard Daley
  • political parties
  • political precinct
  • political scandals
  • political socialization
  • politics
  • poll tax
  • poll watcher
  • popular vote
  • precinct committee officer
  • preprimary endorsements
  • presidency qualifications
  • presidential approval polls
  • presidential approval rating
  • presidential debates
  • presidential elections
  • presidential nominating process
  • presidential primaries
  • presidential succession laws
  • primary
  • Progressive movement
  • Progressive Party
  • Prohibition Party
  • proportional representation
  • provisional ballot
  • public financing for presidential campaigns
  • public opinion polls
  • pundit
  • push poll
  • Q
  • qualifications for the House of Representatives
  • qualifications for the Senate
  • R
  • racial districting
  • Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
  • random sample
  • Reagan Democrats
  • reapportionment
  • recall
  • Reconstruction
  • recount
  • red states
  • redistricting
  • referendum
  • Reform Party
  • regional primary
  • representative democracy
  • Republican National Committee (RNC)
  • Republican National Committee (RNC) chair
  • Republican National Convention
  • Republican Party
  • Republican Party platforms
  • Republican Party symbol
  • Republican revolution
  • retirement slump
  • Revenue Acts, 1971 and 1978
  • Rock the Vote
  • running mate
  • runoff elections
  • runoff primary
  • S
  • safe seat
  • Seneca Falls Convention
  • Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • Shaw v. Reno
  • single-issue voter
  • single-member districts
  • size of the House of Representatives
  • slates in elections
  • Smith v. Allwright
  • Socialist Party
  • soft money contributions
  • sophomore surge
  • South Carolina Progressive Democratic Party (PDP)
  • southern Democrats
  • southern strategy
  • Speaker of the House
  • special election
  • split-ticket voting
  • spoiler candidate
  • state party committees
  • state party organization
  • States’ Rights Party
  • straight-ticket voting
  • straw poll
  • suffrage
  • suffrage for nonlandowners
  • suffrage in Washington, D.C.
  • Super PACs
  • Super Tuesday
  • superdelegate
  • swing ratio
  • swing vote
  • T
  • Tammany Hall
  • targeting voters
  • term limits
  • third parties
  • third rail issues
  • three-fifths compromise
  • Tillman Act
  • tracking poll
  • Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • Twentieth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • Twenty-fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • Twenty-seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • Twenty-sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • Twenty-third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • two-party system
  • types of political ideology
  • U
  • U.S. presidential election, 1789
  • U.S. presidential election, 1792
  • U.S. presidential election, 1796
  • U.S. presidential election, 1800
  • U.S. presidential election, 1804
  • U.S. presidential election, 1808
  • U.S. presidential election, 1812
  • U.S. presidential election, 1816
  • U.S. presidential election, 1820
  • U.S. presidential election, 1824
  • U.S. presidential election, 1828
  • U.S. presidential election, 1832
  • U.S. presidential election, 1836
  • U.S. presidential election, 1840
  • U.S. presidential election, 1844
  • U.S. presidential election, 1848
  • U.S. presidential election, 1852
  • U.S. presidential election, 1856
  • U.S. presidential election, 1860
  • U.S. presidential election, 1864
  • U.S. presidential election, 1868
  • U.S. presidential election, 1872
  • U.S. presidential election, 1876
  • U.S. presidential election, 1880
  • U.S. presidential election, 1884
  • U.S. presidential election, 1888
  • U.S. presidential election, 1892
  • U.S. presidential election, 1896
  • U.S. presidential election, 1900
  • U.S. presidential election, 1904
  • U.S. presidential election, 1908
  • U.S. presidential election, 1912
  • U.S. presidential election, 1916
  • U.S. presidential election, 1920
  • U.S. presidential election, 1924
  • U.S. presidential election, 1928
  • U.S. presidential election, 1932
  • U.S. presidential election, 1936
  • U.S. presidential election, 1940
  • U.S. presidential election, 1944
  • U.S. presidential election, 1948
  • U.S. presidential election, 1952
  • U.S. presidential election, 1956
  • U.S. presidential election, 1960
  • U.S. presidential election, 1964
  • U.S. presidential election, 1968
  • U.S. presidential election, 1972
  • U.S. presidential election, 1976
  • U.S. presidential election, 1980
  • U.S. presidential election, 1984
  • U.S. presidential election, 1988
  • U.S. presidential election, 1992
  • U.S. presidential election, 1996
  • U.S. presidential election, 2000
  • U.S. presidential election, 2004
  • U.S. presidential election, 2008
  • U.S. presidential election, 2012
  • U.S. Senate elections
  • U.S. Taxpayers Party
  • U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton
  • uncontested election
  • undecided voters
  • Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA)
  • Union Party
  • unit rule
  • urban/suburban/rural voting trends
  • use of phone banks in politics
  • V
  • vice presidency qualifications
  • vice presidency selection
  • voter canvass
  • voter dealignment
  • voter identification laws
  • Voter News Service (VNS)
  • voter registration
  • voter turnout
  • voter turnout by age
  • voter turnout by economic status
  • voter turnout by education
  • voter turnout by gender
  • voter turnout by race
  • voting requirements
  • Voting Rights Act
  • voting systems
  • voting trends among religious people
  • voting trends among women
  • voting trends on economic issues
  • W
  • wedge issues
  • Wesberry v. Sanders
  • Whig Party
  • white primary
  • women's suffrage
  • Y
  • Yellow Dog Democrats
  • Young Democrats of America
  • Young Republican Clubs
  • Z
  • Zapple Doctrine
  • Bibliography