Elections in America

Kay Lehman Schlozman serves as J. Joseph Moakley Endowed Professor of Political Science at Boston College. The winner of the American Political Science Association’s 2004 Rowman and Littlefield Award for Innovative Teaching in Political Science, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in American politics. She is the winner of the APSA’s 2006 Frank Goodnow Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession of Political Science; the 2016 Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award; and the American Political Science Association’s 2018 Warren E. Miller Lifetime Achievement Award, which honors an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the field of elections, public opinion, and voting behavior.

• Part 1. The Elections as a Democratic Institution 1. Sending Them a Message—Getting a Reply: Presidential Elections and Democratic Accountability 2. Elections as Democratic Institutions Part 2. Party Reform and the Nomination Process 3. Party Reform, Nominating Processes, and Democratic Ends 4. Farewell to Reform­­­—Almost Part 3. The Electronic Campaign 5. Kind Pictures and Harsh Words: How Television Presents the Candidates 6. News Media Myths and Realities: What the Network News Did and Didn’t Do in the 1984 General Campaign Part 4: Money and Politics 7. Enough is Too Much: Money and Competition in House Elections 8. Varieties of Experience: Campaign Finance in the House and Senate Part 5: The 1984 Election 9. President Reagan as a Political Strategist 10. Voter Turnout and Electoral Preference: The Anomalous Reagan Elections 11. The Democratic Nomination Campaign: Voter Rationality and Instability in a Changing Campaign Environment 12. The Election of 1984 and the Future of American Politics