Election Issue and Blog Discussion
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Byron E. Shafer
This is our election issue of The Forum. Two articles consider fundamental demographic influences on the 2008 election: Paul Sniderman and Edward Stiglitz on race and the vote, and David Kimball on interest groups and the campaign. Two articles consider fundamental procedural influences: Byron Shafer and Amber Wichowsky on the nominations and the election, and Michael McDonald on voter turnout. Two articles consider major substantive influences on the 2008 election: Rob Saldin on foreign affairs, and David Walker on the economy, by way of election forecasting. And three articles offer distinctive overviews of the entire contest: James Campbell on the contingency of the outcome, James Ceaser and Daniel DiSalvo on its place in history, and Philip Klinkner on its coalitional underpinnings. In addition, in his analysis of the first year of the Roberts Court, Cornell Clayton links the fortunes of John Roberts and Barack Obama. Lastly, this election issue offers two reviews of books with electoral implications going forward: Michael Lind on Morton Keller, America‘s Three Regimes, plus Thomas Langston on Steven Shier, Panorama of a Presidency.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Introduction
- Election Issue and Blog Discussion
- Article
- Race and the Moral Character of the Modern American Experience
- Interest Groups in the 2008 Presidential Election: The Barking Dog That Didn't Bite
- The Nomination and the Election: Clearing Away Underbrush
- The Return of the Voter: Voter Turnout in the 2008 Presidential Election
- Foreign Affairs and the 2008 Election
- Presidential Election Forecasts
- An Exceptional Election: Performance, Values, and Crisis in the 2008 Presidential Election
- The Magnitude of the 2008 Democratic Victory: By the Numbers
- LBJ's Revenge: The 2008 Election and the Rise of the Great Society Coalition
- Whither the Roberts Court?
- Review
- Review of America's Three Regimes: A New Political History
- Review of Panorama of a Presidency: How George W. Bush Acquired and Spent His Political Capital
Articles in the same Issue
- Introduction
- Election Issue and Blog Discussion
- Article
- Race and the Moral Character of the Modern American Experience
- Interest Groups in the 2008 Presidential Election: The Barking Dog That Didn't Bite
- The Nomination and the Election: Clearing Away Underbrush
- The Return of the Voter: Voter Turnout in the 2008 Presidential Election
- Foreign Affairs and the 2008 Election
- Presidential Election Forecasts
- An Exceptional Election: Performance, Values, and Crisis in the 2008 Presidential Election
- The Magnitude of the 2008 Democratic Victory: By the Numbers
- LBJ's Revenge: The 2008 Election and the Rise of the Great Society Coalition
- Whither the Roberts Court?
- Review
- Review of America's Three Regimes: A New Political History
- Review of Panorama of a Presidency: How George W. Bush Acquired and Spent His Political Capital
