This text provides an analysis of the variety of consequences that elections may have for the operation of American political institutions and the formulation and administration of policy.
Part 1 Do Elections Matter?; Part 2 1 How Did The 1994 Election Matter?; Chapter 1_1 The 1994 National Elections, Benjamin Ginsberg; Chapter 1_2 The Question of Presidential Character, Chris Cookson, Ross Lence, Alan Stone; Chapter 1_3 The Decline and Ascent of Political Part Ies in Canada, Kenneth Woodside; Part 2a Public Policy and Elections; Chapter 2_1 Busted, Daniel Wirls; Chapter 2_2 The 1994 Explosion, Thomas Ferguson; Chapter 2_3 Issues, Elections, and Political Change, Timothy A. Byrnes; Chapter 2_4 The Importance of Elections in a Strong Congressional Party Era, Bruce I. Oppenheimer; Part 3 Ideology and Elections; Chapter 3_1 Candidate Appeals and the Meaning of Elections, Richard Joslyn; Chapter 3_2 Does Ideology Matter?, Kathleen Knight, Carolyn V. Lewis; Chapter 3_3 State Legislative Elections: Choices or Echoes?, John Frendreis, Alan R. Gitelson, Gregory Flemming, Anne Layzell; Chapter 3_4 Fresh Troops and Hardened Veterans, James L. Guth, John C. Green, Corwin E. Smidt, Lyman A. Kellstedt;
