Why Americans Split Their Tickets : Campaigns, Competition, and Divided Government.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (216 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I Contemporary American Politics and Divided Government -- II Explaining Divided Voter Behavior -- III Measuring Ticket Splitting -- IV President-House Ticket Splitting from 1952 to 2000 -- V Midterm Elections and Divided Government -- VI Splitting the Senate -- VII Conclusion and Implications -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Argues that ticket splitting is an unintentional result of congressional campaigns.
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United States. -- Congress -- Elections. Divided government -- United States. Party affiliation -- United States. Voting -- United States. Presidents -- United States -- Election.