Economic conditions shape election outcomes in the world's democracies. Good times keep
parties in office, bad times cast them out. This proposition is robust, as the voluminous body …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 WHITE BACKLASH Page 3 Page 4 WHITE BACKLASH Immigration,
Race, and American Politics Marisa Abrajano & Zoltan L. Hajnal Princeton University Press …

Globalization and automation have contributed to deindustrialization and the loss of millions
of manufacturing jobs, yielding important electoral implications across advanced …

Today we are politically polarized as never before. The presidential elections of 2000 and
2004 will be remembered as two of the most contentious political events in American history …

Do “niche” parties—such as Communist, Green, and extreme nationalist parties—adjust
their policies in response to shifts in public opinion? Would such policy responsiveness …

Salience is an important concept throughout political science. Traditionally, the word has
been used to designate the importance of issues, particularly for voters. To measure …

The world's richer democracies all provide such public benefits as pensions and health care,
but why are some far more generous than others? And why, in the face of globalization and …

Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth
of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and …

Which get-out-the-vote efforts actually succeed in ethnoracial communities—and why?
Analyzing the results from hundreds of original experiments, the authors of this book offer a …

This book explains how voters evaluate women candidates, who votes for them, and why.
Women comprise an ever-increasing percentage of the candidate pool for elective office in …