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The Battle for Congress: Iraq, Scandal, and Campaign Finance in the 2006 Election
Paradigm Publishers, July 2008, Pages: 264
This book looks at the changing of the guard in 2006 and speculates on where the system was heading in 2008. It provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which candidates, interest groups, and parties perceived their opportunities and allocated their campaign resources during the midterm elections. The role of money, which was influenced by campaign finance reform, is a special focus in this book. Political scandal figured into electoral outcomes as Republicans became identified with a “culture of corruption.”
- Examines many of the key competitive races in the 2006 congressional elections including the Ohio Senate race, the Colorado 7th Congressional District race, the Pennsylvania Senate and 6th Congressional District race as well as the Montana Senate race
- Contains up-to-date and easy to read boxed features, tables, and figures
- Concise, clear presentation of key themes including the war in Iraq, political scandal, and campaign finance reform
- Features case studies from preeminent authors William H. Flanigan, Marjorie Randon Hershey, John C. Green, and Stephen Medvic.
Chapter 1: Issues and Campaign Finance in the Battle for Control of Congress
David B. Magleby and Kelly D. Patterson
Chapter 2: Rules of Engagement: BCRA and Unanswered Questions
David B. Magleby and Kelly D. Patterson
Chapter 3: Volatility and Volition: The Pendulum Swings High and Hard in Colorado’s Seventh District
Kyle L. Saunders and Robert J. Duffy
Chapter 4: Independent Actors and Coordinated Campaigns: The Indiana Ninth Congressional District
Marjorie Randon Hershey and Nicholas J. Clark
Chapter 5: The Minnesota U.S. Senate Race and the Sixth Congressional District Race
William H. Flanigan, Kathryn Pearson, and Nancy H. Zingale
Chapter 6: The 2006 Montana Senate Race
Craig Wilson
Chapter 7: Close, but Not Close Enough: Democrats Lose Again by the Slimmest of Margins in New Mexico’s First Congressional District
Lonna Rae Atkeson and Lorraine Tafoya
Chapter 8: The Battle for Ohio 2006: The Democrats Strike Back
Stephen Brooks, Michael John Burton, David B. Cohen, Daniel Coffey, Anne C. Hanson, Stephen T. Mockabee, and John C. Green
Chapter 9: The 2006 Pennsylvania Senate Race
Robin Kolodny, Kyle Kreider, Stephen Medvic, and Daniel Shea
Chapter 10: Pennsylvania’s Sixth Congressional District
Robin Kolodny and Stephen Medvic
Chapter 11: Conclusion
David B. Magleby and Kelly D. Patterson
- David B. Magleby is nationally recognized for his expertise on direct democracy, voting behavior, and campaign finance. He received his B.A. from the University of Utah in 1973 and his Ph.D. from the University of California–Berkeley. Currently a Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy, and Dean of the College of Family Home and Social Science at Brigham Young University, Professor Magleby has also taught at the University of California–Santa Cruz, and the University of Virginia.
- Kelly Patterson is Director of the Center for the Study of Elections Democracy and former chair of the Department of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. After teaching at Franklin and Marshall College from 1989 to 1993, Patterson came to Brigham Young University, where his research and teaching activities focus on American politics, political parties, Congress and elections, public opinion, quantitative methods, and political theory.
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