Campaigns & Elections: Contemporary Case Studies [Paperback]

Michael A. Bailey (Editor), Ronald Faucheux (Editor), Paul S. Hernson (Editor), Clyde Wilcox (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 212 pages
• Publisher: Cq Pr (November 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568024959
• ISBN-13: 978-1568024950
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,354,861 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael A. Bailey is the Colonel William J. Walsh Professor of American Government in the Georgetown University Department of Government and the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. He is co-author (with Forrest Maltzman) of The Constrained Court: Law, Politics and the Decisions Justices Make from from Princeton University Press. Bailey's work covering the Supreme Court, trade, Congress, elections and methodology has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, World Politics, the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization and elsewhere. For 20011-12 he is the John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government at the Rothermere American Institute and Balliol College at Oxford University. He was born in Minneapolis. In 1991 he graduated from the University of Notre Dame. After a year in Japan as a Monbusho Scholar he went to Stanford University where he received a Ph.D. in Political Science. He started teaching at Georgetown University in 1997.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating campaign case studies, May 23, 2001

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George M. (Los Angeles, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Campaigns & Elections: Contemporary Case Studies (Paperback)

It's very hard to find good, practical case studies of political campaigns written by people who know what they're doing. This book is superb, and an excellent source for people who want to find out the inside story of how candidates win tough elections.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Case studies? Yes. Context? No., March 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Campaigns & Elections: Contemporary Case Studies (Paperback)

This book is a collection of articles that appeared in various issues of Campaigns and Elections magazine. Sections divide the cases of elections for U.S. Senate, House, state/local races, and ballot initiatives.

Alone, the articles are each reasonably well executed. But don't go looking for connective tissue. This book completely lacks any structure for comparison. The "case studies" are not composed in similar formats. An unfamiliar reader will have trouble understanding when events took place -- dates have been left out -- entire articles exist without reference to years that elections took place.

Articles written by managers or consultants for one candidate reject any balanced discussion of their opponents' tactics.

These aren't flaws of the writers. They're flaws of the collection. The book's editors appear to have made no effort to revise old magazine content. Chapters don't even begin or end with extra unifying information.

Long story short: this is little more than a disjointed re-packaging.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Analysis, August 4, 2005

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A. Claxton - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Campaigns & Elections: Contemporary Case Studies (Paperback)

This is a great collection of case studies about some of the best (and worst) recent campaigns. It is best suited for political professionals who can glean valuable knowledge from interviews of staff, consultants and candidates themselves. This is not a "how to" for the novice.

Of particular interest to me was seeing just how different some consultants from the "other" party think and operate. From this standpoint this book certainly does help one "know thine enemy".

The analysis is first rate, professional, not partisan. Additionally it is free from the bland generalizations and mindless axioms that one sees in many other books about politics and campaigns.