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What makes young aspiring politicians take the leap and enter the
electoral arena? Born to Run tells the stories of nine young
politicians from all walks of life who enter races at the state and
local levels in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Georgia, Nebraska, and Maine.
Across the board, Gaddie finds a great range of motivations,
strategies, and success rates among his carefully selected group.
He doesn't rely strictly on interviews (although they provide lots
of colorful detail), but hit the campaign trail along with his
subjects to observe firsthand the pressures and challenges with
which a new candidate is faced. Five years of fieldwork are
amplified by survey data on candidates, legislators, and activists
that bear out in greater numbers what Gaddie discovered on the
ground. Working in the tradition of Richard Fenno's esteemed Home
Style, Born to Run contributes to developing a more comprehensive
model of political ambition that accounts for the origins of
aspiration and the uncertainties that accompany every political
career, but especially the early ones. Born to Run is irresistible
for students of the same age as some of the candidates, invaluable
to anyone who has studied campaigns and elections from the top
down, and intriguing to anyone who wants insight into some
potential rising stars within both the Democratic and Republican
parties.
Shifting the focal point from incumbency to open seat competition
in the U.S. House of Representatives is the task this book
embraces. In the process, the authors demonstrate the importance of
candidates and competition, and the role of money, gender, and
special elections in determining how open seats get filled and when
partisan changes occur.
On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision
in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting
rights law. The decision - the culmination of an eight-year battle
over the power of Congress to regulate state conduct of elections -
marked the closing of a chapter in American politics. That chapter
had opened a century earlier in the case of Guinn v. United States,
which ushered in national efforts to knock down racial barriers to
the ballot. A detailed and timely history, The Rise and Fall of the
Voting Rights Act analyzes changing legislation and the future of
voting rights in the United States. In tracing the development of
the Voting Rights Act from its inception, Charles S. Bullock III,
Ronald Keith Gaddie, and Justin J. Wert begin by exploring the
political and legal aspects of the Jim Crow electoral regime.
Detailing both the subsequent struggle to enact the law and its
impact, they explain why the Voting Rights Act was necessary. The
authors draw on court cases and election data to bring their
discussion to the present with an examination of the 2006 revision
and renewal of the act, and its role in shaping the southern
political environment in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections,
when Barack Obama was chosen. Bullock, Gaddie, and Wert go on to
closely evaluate the 2013 Shelby County decision, describing how
the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court created an appellate
environment that made the act ripe for a challenge. Rigorous in its
scholarship and thoroughly readable, this book goes beyond history
and analysis to provide compelling and much-needed insight into the
ways voting rights legislation has shaped the United States. The
Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act illuminates the historical
roots - and the human consequences - of a critical chapter in U.S.
legal history.
The death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946
launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most
unusual political events in U.S. history: the state had three
active governors at once, each claiming that he was the true
elected official. This is the first full-length examination of that
episode, which wasn't just a crazy quirk of Georgia politics
(though it was that) but the decisive battle in a struggle between
the state's progressive and rustic forces that had continued since
the onset of the Great Depression. In 1946, rural forces aided by
the county unit system, Jim Crow intimidation of black voters, and
the Talmadge machine's "loyal 100,000" voters united to claim the
governorship. In the aftermath, progressive political forces in
Georgia would shrink into obscurity for the better part of a
generation. In this volume is the story of how the political,
governmental, and Jim Crow social institutions not only defeated
Georgia's progressive forces but forestalled their effectiveness
for a decade and a half.
The death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946
launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most
unusual political events in U.S. history: the state had three
active governors at once, each claiming that he was the true
elected official. This is the first full-length examination of that
episode, which wasn't just a crazy quirk of Georgia politics
(though it was that) but the decisive battle in a struggle between
the state's progressive and rustic forces that had continued since
the onset of the Great Depression. In 1946, rural forces aided by
the county unit system, Jim Crow intimidation of black voters, and
the Talmadge machine's "loyal 100,000" voters united to claim the
governorship. In the aftermath, progressive political forces in
Georgia would shrink into obscurity for the better part of a
generation. In this volume is the story of how the political,
governmental, and Jim Crow social institutions not only defeated
Georgia's progressive forces but forestalled their effectiveness
for a decade and a half.
A central political issue in American politics during the 1990s is
the need for political campaign reform. A variety of proposals have
been advanced to reform the system of congressional elections, most
notably in relation to campaign financing. The authors examine U.S.
Senate elections to determine the role money plays in the contests;
their analysis indicates that the system of campaign finance
resembles a market, with legislators serving as the recipients of
financial largesse based on their institutional positions and
political vulnerability. This rent-seeking relationship between
economic interests and legislators has transformed the dynamic of
Senate elections. Assessing the potential impact of several
electoral reform proposals, Professors Regens and Gaddie argue that
debates over the nature and consequences of proposed changes in
election finance are often waged without an underlying point of
theoretical reference. In addition, little consideration is placed
upon impacts relative to each other or collectively on the
political system. Spending limits and public funding proposals,
they contend, will not have the effects expected by reform
advocates. Term limit and public funding proposals would disrupt
the rent-seeking relationship between legislators and economic
interests, and these proposals would also face political and
constitutional barriers to implementation.
A central political issue in American politics during the 1990s is
the need for political campaign reform. A variety of proposals have
been advanced to reform the system of congressional elections, most
notably in relation to campaign financing. The authors examine U.S.
Senate elections to determine the role money plays in the contests;
their analysis indicates that the system of campaign finance
resembles a market, with legislators serving as the recipients of
financial largesse based on their institutional positions and
political vulnerability. This rent-seeking relationship between
economic interests and legislators has transformed the dynamic of
Senate elections. Assessing the potential impact of several
electoral reform proposals, Professors Regens and Gaddie argue that
debates over the nature and consequences of proposed changes in
election finance are often waged without an underlying point of
theoretical reference. In addition, little consideration is placed
upon impacts relative to each other or collectively on the
political system. Spending limits and public funding proposals,
they contend, will not have the effects expected by reform
advocates. Term limit and public funding proposals would disrupt
the rent-seeking relationship between legislators and economic
interests, and these proposals would also face political and
constitutional barriers to implementation.
On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision
in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting
rights law. The decision - the culmination of an eight-year battle
over the power of Congress to regulate state conduct of elections -
marked the closing of a chapter in American politics. That chapter
had opened a century earlier in the case of Guinn v. United States,
which ushered in national efforts to knock down racial barriers to
the ballot. A detailed and timely history, The Rise and Fall of the
Voting Rights Act analyzes changing legislation and the future of
voting rights in the United States. In tracing the development of
the Voting Rights Act from its inception, Charles S. Bullock III,
Ronald Keith Gaddie, and Justin J. Wert begin by exploring the
political and legal aspects of the Jim Crow electoral regime.
Detailing both the subsequent struggle to enact the law and its
impact, they explain why the Voting Rights Act was necessary. The
authors draw on court cases and election data to bring their
discussion to the present with an examination of the 2006 revision
and renewal of the act, and its role in shaping the southern
political environment in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections,
when Barack Obama was chosen. Bullock, Gaddie, and Wert go on to
closely evaluate the 2013 Shelby County decision, describing how
the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court created an appellate
environment that made the act ripe for a challenge. Rigorous in its
scholarship and thoroughly readable, this book goes beyond history
and analysis to provide compelling and much-needed insight into the
ways voting rights legislation has shaped the United States. The
Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act illuminates the historical
roots - and the human consequences - of a critical chapter in U.S.
legal history.
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