 - Where Have All the Voters Gone?
- Martin P. Wattenberg
- Wattenberg confronts the question of what low participation rates mean for democracy and argues we must find ways to make the American electoral process more user-friendly.
 - The Rise of Southern Republicans
- Earl Black and Merle Black
- “This superb analysis of Southern politics...not only tracks the recent rise of Republicans in the South but explains why party realignment along ideological lines was so long in coming to that region...a political science classic.”
—Houston Chronicle
 - The Conservative Ascendancy
- How the GOP Right Made Political History
- Donald Critchlow
- “The indispensable scholarly account of how...grass-roots activists launched a counteroffensive against the prevailing...political order...[and] became the dominant force in U.S. politics.” —Chattanooga Times Free Press
 - The American Political Economy
- Macroeconomics and Electoral Politics in the United States
- Douglas A. Hibbs, Jr.
- The most comprehensive and authoritative work to date on relationships between the economy and politics in the years from Eisenhower through Reagan. Hibbs shows how economic events affect the electoral fortunes of parties and presidents.
 - Political Competition
- Theory and Applications
- John E. Roemer
- A unified theory of political competition between parties under many circumstances: whether parties are policy oriented or oriented toward winning, whether they are certain about voter preferences, and whether the policy space is multidimensional.
 - The American Party Battle
- Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876
Volumes 1 and 2
- Joel H. Silbey, Editor
- The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets.
 - The Rise of Candidate-Centered Politics
- Presidential Elections of the 1980s
- Martin P. Wattenberg
- An in-depth look at the presidential elections of the '80s, illuminating current theories of political behavior and how they operate in candidate-centered politics.
 - The Decline of American Political Parties, 1952-1996
- Martin P. Wattenberg
- Turning out the vote is one of the most crucial functions of the parties, and their inability to mobalize the electorate strongly indicates their future decline in importance.
 - Party Campaigning in the 1980's
- Paul S. Herrnson
- Drawing on extensive interviews and survey data collected from nearly five hundred House and Senate candidates, campaign advisers, party officials, PAC executives, and journalists, Herrnson evaluates the roles of the national parties.
 - Campaign '72
- The Managers Speak
- Ernest R. May and Janet Fraser
- The transcript of the first time in American history principal participants in a major election met to discuss the science and the art of campaign strategy.
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