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Author: Gerald M. Pomper Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 238
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This fourth in a series of election reports by Pomper and others affiliated with the Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University is indispensible reading for an informed electorate. Its wealth of statistics and cogent analysis throughout make it invaluable to professionals as well. Chapters cover the Reagan heritage; 1988 as a continuation of the recent past nominating process for Presidents; voter expectations of candidates; media aversion for issues; the election as mandate and/or realignment for Bush and the Republicans; the Congressional 1988 elections as a case study in continuity; and the election as proof for the Democratic party that it can not live off of the JFK legacy any longer. Such thorough analysis so soon after the election is laudable and noteworthy. Highly recommended.-- Frank Kessler, Missouri Western State Coll., St. Joseph -Library Journal.
Author: Gerald M. Pomper Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 238
Book Description
This fourth in a series of election reports by Pomper and others affiliated with the Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University is indispensible reading for an informed electorate. Its wealth of statistics and cogent analysis throughout make it invaluable to professionals as well. Chapters cover the Reagan heritage; 1988 as a continuation of the recent past nominating process for Presidents; voter expectations of candidates; media aversion for issues; the election as mandate and/or realignment for Bush and the Republicans; the Congressional 1988 elections as a case study in continuity; and the election as proof for the Democratic party that it can not live off of the JFK legacy any longer. Such thorough analysis so soon after the election is laudable and noteworthy. Highly recommended.-- Frank Kessler, Missouri Western State Coll., St. Joseph -Library Journal.
Author: John J. Pitney, Jr. Publisher: University Press of Kansas ISBN: 0700628754 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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Upon the 2018 death of George H. W. Bush, pundits and politicians mourned the passing of an exemplar of the statesmanship and bipartisan ethos of an earlier day. The judgment, though sound, would have shocked observers of the 1988 election that put Bush in the White House. From a scholar who played a small role in that long-ago election, After Reagan provides an eye-opening look at a presidential campaign that few suspected marked the end of an era—or the rise of forces roiling our political landscape today. Willie Horton. “Read my lips: No new taxes.” Michael Dukakis in a helmet, in a tank. Though these are remembered as pivotal moments in a presidential campaign recalled as whisker-close, in his book John J. Pitney Jr. reminds us how large Bush’s victory actually was, and how much it depended on social conditions and political dynamics that would change dramatically in the coming years. A turning point toward the post–Cold War, hyper-partisan, culturally divided politics of our time, the election of 1988 took place in a very different world. After Reagan captures a moment when campaigns were funded from the federal Treasury; when Republicans had a lock on the presidency and Democrats controlled Congress; when the electorate was considerably whiter and less educated than today’s; and when the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union—and the subsequent rise of globalization—were virtually unimaginable. Many books tell us that elections have consequences. Pitney’s explains how campaigns are consequential—the 1988 campaign more than most. From the perspective of the last thirty years, After Reagan shows us the 1988 election in a truly new light—one that, in turn, reveals the links between the campaign of 1988 and the politics of the twenty-first century.
Author: Herbert E. Alexander Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429722680 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 176
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This book describes the role money played in the campaigns of each of the major contenders for the 1988 presidential election and in congressional campaigns as well. It focuses on the aspects of the political process and contributes to our understanding of political influence in the United State.
Author: James L Guth Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000314871 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 206
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The 1988 elections abruptly brought the importance of religion in American politics into sharp focus. Two ministers, Pat Robertson and Jesse Jackson, sought their party's presidential nominations by mobilizing key religious constituencies. In addition, a host of other religious groups, from the Catholic bishops to the Jewish community, sought to influence the election outcome. More than ever, religion was a critical factor in the ballots cast by millions of Americans. As the twentieth century draws to a close, it is clear that religion will continue to be a powerful factor in electoral politics. This volume investigates the many ways religion influenced electoral politics in 1988, tracing the links between elites, activists, and voters in the major religious traditions. Special attention is paid to the leaders of Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish organizations; to important sets of activists, such as ministers, party leaders, and campaign contributors; and to the behavior of key voting blocs, including white evangelical and mainline Protestants, black Protestants, Catholics, and Jews.
Author: Richard Ben Cramer Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1453219641 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 1712
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Before Game Change there was What It Takes, a ride along the 1988 campaign trail and “possibly the best [book] ever written about an American election” (NPR). Written by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times–bestselling author Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes is “a perfect-pitch rendering of the emotions, the intensity, the anguish, and the emptiness of what may have been the last normal two-party campaign in American history” (Time). An up-close, in-depth look at six candidates—George H. W. “Poppy” Bush, Bob Dole, Joe Biden, Michael Dukakis, Richard Gephardt, and Gary Hart—this account of the 1988 US presidential campaign explores a unique moment in history, with details on everything from Bush at the Astrodome to Hart’s Donna Rice scandal. Cramer also addresses the question we find ourselves pondering every four years: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that allows them to throw their hat in the ring as a candidate for leadership of the free world? Exhaustively researched from thousands of hours of interviews, What It Takes creates powerful portraits of these Republican and Democratic contenders, and the consultants, donors, journalists, handlers, and hangers-on who surround them, as they meet, greet, and strategize their way through primary season chasing the nomination, resulting in “a hipped-up amalgam of Teddy White, Tom Wolfe, and Norman Mailer” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). With timeless insight that helps us understand the current state of the nation, this “ultimate insider’s book on presidential politics” explores what helps these people survive, what makes them prosper, what drives them, and ultimately, what drives our government—human beings, in all their flawed glory (San Francisco Chronicle).
Author: Michael Nelson Publisher: University Press of Kansas ISBN: 0700629173 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 344
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In the presidential elections of 1980, 1984, and 1988, the three Democratic nominees won an average of about 10 percent of the Electoral College vote—a smaller share than any party in any three consecutive presidential elections in US history. In the next seven elections, Democrats won the popular vote in all but one (2004), a feat not achieved by a political party since the Democratic Party’s inception in the 1820s. What separated these record-setting runs was the election and presidency of Bill Clinton, whose pivotal role in ushering in a new era of American politics—for better and for worse—this book explores. Perhaps because Clinton’s presidency was hobbled by six years of divided government, ended in a sex scandal and impeachment, and was sandwiched between Republican administrations, it is easy to forget that he revived a presidential party that had become nearly moribund. In Clinton’s Elections Michael Nelson describes how, by tacking relentlessly to the center, Clinton revived the Democrats’ presidential fortunes—but also, paradoxically, effectively erased the center, in the process introducing the new political reality of extreme partisan divisiveness and dysfunctional government. Tracing Clinton’s place in American politics from his emergence as a potential nominee in 1988 to his role in political campaigns right up to 2016, Nelson draws a deft portrait of a savvy politician operating in the midst of divided government and making strategic moves to consolidate power and secure future victories. With its absorbing narrative and incisive analysis, his book makes sense of a watershed in the modern American political landscape—and lays bare the roots of our current era of political dysfunction.
Author: Gerald M. Pomper
Author: Gerald M. Pomper
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