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Timing and turnout : how off-cycle elections favor organized groups / Sarah F. Anzia.

By: Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014Description: xiii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226086781
  • 9780226086811
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 324.973 23
LOC classification:
  • JK1965 .A69 2014
Contents:
Timing and turnout: the basics -- A theory of election timing -- Partisan power play: election timing politics in the nineteenth century -- Interest groups and election timing choice in the twenty-first century -- Estimating the effect of off-cycle election timing: school board elections -- "What election?: timing, turnout, and policy in California cities -- Implications for democracy, representation, and institutional stability.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Timing and turnout: the basics -- A theory of election timing -- Partisan power play: election timing politics in the nineteenth century -- Interest groups and election timing choice in the twenty-first century -- Estimating the effect of off-cycle election timing: school board elections -- "What election?: timing, turnout, and policy in California cities -- Implications for democracy, representation, and institutional stability.

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