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  • The Problem with Primary Voters

    Participation, Representation, and Consistency

    by Robert G. Boatright, Caroline Tolbert, Nathan K. Micatka ...
    This comprehensive study, based on state voter files, shows how low primary turnout distorts representation and explores reforms to increase participationThe Problem with Primary Voters is the most comprehensive study to date of primary election voters. The authors examine state voter files, drawn from the near-universe of US adults and all primary voters, matching these voter files to commercial ... Read more

    $91.19 CAD

  • Money, Partisanship and Power in Local Politics

    by Robert G. Boatright, Lane Cuthbert, Adam Eichen, Raymond J. La Raja, Meredith Rolfe ...
    Series series Elements in American Politics
    This Element presents an analysis of campaign finance in city council elections in four midsize Massachusetts cities. It shows that while money does not determine local election outcomes it plays a gatekeeping role – especially for nonincumbents. Moreover, this money comes from a very unrepresentative segment of the electorate. Although elections in these cities are nonpartisan, individual donors ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • American Corruption Talk

    A Political Etymology

    by Robert G. Boatright, Molly Brigid McGrath ...
    Americans often worry about political corruption—not only about specific officials misusing their powers, but also more broadly about political, cultural, moral decay or deterioration. Underneath our talk about corruption lie deeper claims and concerns about how we organize our common life. American Corruption Talk presents a study of corruption and corruption talk that seeks to understand those ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Reform and Retrenchment

    A Century of Efforts to Fix Primary Elections

    by Robert G. Boatright ...
    The direct primary, in which voters rather than party leaders or convention delegates select party nominees for state and federal offices, was one of the most widely adopted political reforms of the early twentieth century. Yet after decades of practice and study, scholars have found little clear evidence that direct primaries changed the outcomes of party nominations. The conventional wisdom has ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Congressional Primary Elections

    by Robert G. Boatright ...
    Congressional primaries are increasingly being blamed for polarization and gridlock in Congress. Most American states adopted congressional primaries during the first decades of the 20th century as a means of breaking the hold of political "bosses" on the nomination of candidates. Yet now, many contend that primaries have become a means by which the most dedicated party activists choose candidates ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Deregulatory Moment?

    A Comparative Perspective on Changing Campaign Finance Laws

    by Robert G Boatright ...
    For those who assume that increased regulation of political spending is inevitable in democratic nations, recent developments in U.S. campaign finance law appear puzzling. Is deregulation, exemplified by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC, a harbinger of things to come elsewhere or further evidence that the United States remains an anomaly?In this volume, experts on the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Trumping Politics as Usual

    Masculinity, Misogyny, and the 2016 Elections

    by Robert G. Boatright, Valerie Sperling ...
    In many elections, candidates frame their appeals in gendered ways--they compete, for instance, over who is more "masculine." This is the case for male and female candidates alike. In the 2016 presidential election, however, the stark choice between the first major-party female candidate and a man who exhibited a persistent pattern of misogyny made the use of gender more prominent than in any ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD

  • Interest Groups and Campaign Finance Reform in the United States and Canada

    by Robert G Boatright ...
    In the early 2000s, the United States and Canada implemented new campaign finance laws restricting the ability of interest groups to make political contributions and to engage in political advertising. Whereas both nations' legislative reforms sought to reduce the role of interest groups in campaigns, these laws have had opposite results in the two nations. In the United States, interest groups ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Corruption in the Contemporary World

    Theory, Practice, and Hotspots

    by Jonathan Mendilow, Robert G. Boatright, Michael J. Brogan, Fabrizio Di Mascio, Rebecca R. Fiske, Barbara Franz, Fernando Jiménez-Sánchez, Alessandro Natalini, Jürgen Pfeffer, Daniela R. Piccio0, Ana Revuelta Alonso1, Barry Seldes2, Jacob Sprague White3, Manuel Villoria4, Roberta Fiske-Rusciano5, Ilan Peleg6, Frank Louis Rusciano8 ...
    This book deals with large-scale, systemic corruption, a phenomenon that it identifies as part of the political landscape in most, if not all, societies of the contemporary world. While the analysis is grounded in the political thought of earlier thinkers, especially Edmund Burke, and integrates the insights of several modern analysts of corruption, the volume offers a new, updated theoretical ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Getting Primaried

    The Changing Politics of Congressional Primary Challenges

    by Robert G Boatright ...
    Series series Legislative Politics And Policy Making
    Each of the past few election cycles has featured at least one instance of "primarying," a challenge to an incumbent on the grounds that he or she is not sufficiently partisan. For many observers, such races signify an increasingly polarized electorate and an increasing threat to moderates of both parties.In Getting Primaried, Robert G. Boatright shows that primary challenges are not becoming more ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • A Crisis of Civility?

    Political Discourse and Its Discontents

    Edited by Robert G. Boatright, Timothy J. Shaffer, Sarah Sobieraj, Dannagal Goldthwaite Young ...
    The state of political discourse in the United States today has been a subject of concern for many Americans. Political incivility is not merely a problem for political elites; political conversations between American citizens have also become more difficult and tense. The 2016 presidential elections featured campaign rhetoric designed to inflame the general public. Yet the 2016 election was ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Primary Elections

    Edited by Robert G. Boatright ...
    Primary elections have been used for the past century for most U.S. elective offices and their popularity is growing in other nations as well. In some circumstances, primaries ensure that citizens have a say in elections and test the skills of candidates before they get to the general election. Yet primaries are often criticized for increasing the cost of elections, for producing ideologically ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD