Jamie L. Carson is the UGA Athletic Association Professor of Public and International Affairs II in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia.Joel Sievert is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University.

...Carson and Sievert succeed in presenting a new, interesting, and important picture of the politics of congressional elections during the nineteenth century that should (and hopefully will) be of interest to a wide range of scholars of congressional elections, political history, and American political development. The authors offer an alternative picture to the dominant conventional wisdom surrounding electoral politics during this era; and their empirical findings should serve as a foundation that other scholars can build upon in their future theoretical and empirical scholarship on these topics.

Jamie L. Carson is the UGA Athletic Association Professor of Public and International Affairs II in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia.Joel Sievert is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University.

...Carson and Sievert succeed in presenting a new, interesting, and important picture of the politics of congressional elections during the nineteenth century that should (and hopefully will) be of interest to a wide range of scholars of congressional elections, political history, and American political development. The authors offer an alternative picture to the dominant conventional wisdom surrounding electoral politics during this era; and their empirical findings should serve as a foundation that other scholars can build upon in their future theoretical and empirical scholarship on these topics.

Jamie L. Carson is the UGA Athletic Association Professor of Public and International Affairs II in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia.Joel Sievert is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University.

...Carson and Sievert succeed in presenting a new, interesting, and important picture of the politics of congressional elections during the nineteenth century that should (and hopefully will) be of interest to a wide range of scholars of congressional elections, political history, and American political development. The authors offer an alternative picture to the dominant conventional wisdom surrounding electoral politics during this era; and their empirical findings should serve as a foundation that other scholars can build upon in their future theoretical and empirical scholarship on these topics.