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Volume 32 - December 1999

Contents

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Research Article

  • Explaining Success and Failure in the 1998 Midterm Elections: Comparing the Influence of Swing Voters and Core Party Supporters

  • Alan I. Abramowitz
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    02 September 2013, pp. 60-61

  • In the aftermath of a disappointing showing in the 1998 midterm elections, Republican party leaders and strategists have been debating what went wrong on November 3, and what the party needs to do differently in the future. Two competing explanations for the election results appear to be emerging from this debate (Berke 1998).

    According to one explanation, favored by party moderates, Republicans lost ground in 1998 because moderate and independent swing voters were alienated by the party's conservative image and by the partisan tone of the presidential impeachment inquiry. The lesson to be learned from the 1998 elections, according to the proponents of this theory, is that the GOP needs to move toward the center and seek compromises with moderate Democrats.

    In sharp contrast, some conservatives attribute Republican losses in the midterm elections to their party's failure to energize its partisan and ideological base. In order to be successful, these conservatives argue, the GOP needs to mobilize a larger proportion of its base by taking clear positions on issues and aggressively pursuing a conservative agenda.

    One way to test the validity of these competing theories is to examine data from the 1998 voter exit polls. These polls were conducted in every state holding a Senate or gubernatorial election except Alaska and Hawaii (CNN 1998).

The Profession

Controversy: The Past, Present, and Possible Future of Civic Education

  • Rebuttal to Response by Stephen Leonard

  • Stephen Earl Bennett
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    02 September 2013, p. 760
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  • Enlivening Political Science Courses with Kolb's Learning Preference Model

  • Kathy L. Brock, Beverly J. Cameron
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    02 September 2013, pp. 251-256
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  • The Thucydides Tapes

  • Peter Singer
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    02 September 2013, pp. 596-601
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The Profession

Controversy: The Past, Present, and Possible Future of Civic Education

  • Participation by Women in the 1999 APSA Annual Meeting

  • Martin Gruberg
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    02 September 2013, p. 761
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  • The Secondary Consequences of Conducting Polls in Political Science Classes: A Quasi-Experimental Test

  • Lloyd P. Jones, Stephen S. Meinhold
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    02 September 2013, pp. 603-606
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  • Ranking the Presses: Political Scientists' Evaluations of Publisher Quality

  • Larry P. Goodson, Bradford Dillman, Anil Hira
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    02 September 2013, pp. 257-262
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  • One Experience is Worth a Thousand Words: Engaging Undergraduates in Field Research on Gender

  • Cindy Simon Rosenthal
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    02 September 2013, pp. 63-68
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  • Teaching Ph.D. Students to Teach Political Science: The Emory TATTO Program

  • H. Gibbs Knotts, Eleanor C. Main
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    02 September 2013, pp. 607-610
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  • Running for Elected Office: A Ten-Week Political Campaign Simulation for Upper-Division Courses

  • Lyn Kathlene, Judd Choate
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    02 September 2013, pp. 69-76
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The Profession

Controversy: The Past, Present, and Possible Future of Civic Education

  • They Blinded Me with Political Science: On the Use of Nonpeer Reviewed Research in Education Policy

  • Edward Muir
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    02 September 2013, pp. 762-764
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  • What the Survey of American College Freshmen Tells Us about Their Interest in Politics and Political Science

  • Sheilah Mann
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    02 September 2013, pp. 263-268
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  • People in Political Science

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    02 September 2013, pp. 611-616
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  • “Bringing It All Back Home”: The Issues Involved in Teaching a U.S. Regional Politics Course

  • James P. Melcher
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    02 September 2013, pp. 77-82
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  • People in Political Science

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    02 September 2013, pp. 269-272
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  • People in Political Science

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    02 September 2013, pp. 765-772
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