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Record Nr.

UNINA9910522994303321

Titolo

The Roads to Congress 2020 : Campaigning in the Era of Trump and COVID-19 / / edited by Sean D. Foreman, Marcia L. Godwin, Walter Clark Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030825218

3030825213

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 pages)

Disciplina

324.70973

324.9730933

Soggetti

Legislation

Elections

Political science

Legislative Politics

Electoral Politics

Political Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Congress in Transition -- Chapter 1: The 2020 Elections Overview -- Part II. Congressional Campaign and Election Trends -- Chapter 2: Voting by Mail -- Chapter 3: How COVID19 affects the election -- Chapter 4: Sex and Social Media -- Chapter 5: Forecasting the 2020 elections -- Part III. U.S. House of Representatives Case Studies -- Chapter 6: Southern California’s Flipped Congressional Districts: Roads to Reelection -- Chapter 7: Florida’s 27 Congressional Districts: Some names and faces change but party control stays the same -- Chapter 8: New York’s 22nd Congressional District -- Chapter 9: Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional District -- Chapter 10: Texas Congressional Districts 22, 23, 24 -- Chapter 11: Virginia’s 7th Congressional District -- Part IV. U.S. Senate Case Studies -- Chapter 12: Alabama Senate Campaign -- Chapter 13: Arizona Senate Campaign -- Chapter 14: Iowa Senate Campaign -- Chapter 15: Kansas



Senate and House Campaigns -- Chapter 16: Maine Senate Campaign -- Chapter 17: North Carolina Senate Campaign -- Part V. Roads Ahead -- Chapter 18: Lessons Learned from the 2020 Elections.

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyzes changes to campaigning and voting in the United States in 2020. The global pandemic caused by COVID-19 upended traditional campaign strategies, posed unprecedented challenges to candidates, and possessed the potential to fundamentally alter how campaigns think about running for office. At the same time, the Trump administration’s divisive handling of twin crises stemming from the pandemic and rising racial tensions loomed over congressional races as the most disruptive election cycle in living memory. The ramifications of the 2020 congressional elections for the direction of public policy in America—and perhaps for American democracy itself—cannot be overstated. The Roads to Congress 2020 examines key House and Senate campaigns, candidates, and controversies in the 2020 election to reveal what accounts for the outcomes and point the way to America’s political future. Sean D. Foreman is Professor of Political Science at Barry University, USA. Marcia L. Godwin is Professor of Public Administration at the University of La Verne, USA. Walter Clark Wilson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.