Annotated Web Articles on the Electoral Process

Political Parties in the United States
One of five brief articles on the American electoral process produced by USInfo.State.Gov.  The author is John F. Bibby, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin; former chairman of the American Political Science Association's political parties subfield. An authority on U.S. politics and government, he has authored Politics, Parties, and Elections in America.

Presidential Nominations and
American Democracy
One of five brief articles on the American electoral process produced by USInfo.State.Gov.  The author is Stephen J. Wayne, professor of government at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and the author of the book, The Road to The White House 2004 (Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004). USInfo.State.Gov

U.S. Election Procedures
One of five brief articles on the American electoral process produced by USInfo.State.Gov.  The author is Michael W. Traugott, professor of communication studies and political science at the University of Michigan. He is the co-author of The Voter's Guide to Election Polls and Election Polls, the News Media and Democracy. His current research focuses on the effect of election administration reform.

Congressional Elections
One of five brief articles on the American electoral process produced by USInfo.State.Gov.  The author is John H. Aldrich, professor of political science at Duke University. Books he has authored or co-authored include Why Parties?, Before the Convention: strategies and choices in Presidential nomination camaigns, Linear Probability, Logit and Probit Models, and a series of books on elections, the most recent of which is Change and Continuity in the 2000 and 2002 Elections.

The State of Campaign Finance
One of five brief articles on the American electoral process produced by USInfo.State.Gov.  The author is Joseph E. Cantor, specialist in American national government at the Congressional Research Service, a department of the Library of Congress.  He has specialized in campaign finance since 1979, in which capacity he has helped to inform Congress about this subject and to analyze the issues involved and the proposals for changes in relevant law.

What Liberals Stand For
A brief summary of the basic positions of liberalism, as explained on the Turn Left website. This list includes freedom of conscience, religion, and speech; civil rights; universal public education, tolerance of differences; a social safety net, employees' rights; environmental protection; strong families; responsibility; free enterprise; rule of law; and progress.

Religion in the 2004 Elections
A special supplement to Religion and the News.  In September of 2003, the Leonard E. Greenberg Center and the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron sponsored a Conference on Religion in the 2004 Election. Leading scholars made presentations on the politics of key religious constituencies: how they vote, how they are being mobilized, and how best to cover them.  The section opens with an overview of religion and voting patterns by John Green of the Bliss Institute and Mark Silk of the Greenberg Center that proposes a useful new measure of religion’s impact on American politics.  Following are briefings that analyze the political traditions and tensions that characterize eight major religious groups. Each is written by a scholar who has produced distinguished work on the group and who continues to follow it closely.

Frontline: The Jesus Factor
Frontline on PBS provided an hour television special examining George Bush's personal religious journey, it impact on his political career and presidency, and the growing influence of America's evangelical Christians. You can view the entire program online.

A Politics for Generation X
An Atlantic online article by Ted Halstead, published in August 1999, arguing that today's young adults, born in the years from 1965 to 1978, are not politically apathetic, but share a set of political beliefs that look beyond the traditional two party system.

The Revolution Will Not Be Blogged
Writing for the May/June 2004 issue of Mother Jones magazine, George Packer discusses the phenomenon of political blogging as "the latest, somewhat debased, manifestation of the old art of political pamphleteering."

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Women Voters in the 2004 Elections
U.S. Department of State publication, April 14, 2004, by Darlisa Crawford, Washington File Staff writer. The pamphlet discusses the women voters in the 2004 election, features an interview with Kay J. Maxwell, president of the League of Women Voters, and provides a history of the women's vote.

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