Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections
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
Table of Contents
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