Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections provides comprehensive coverage of the American election process and its political parties.

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