Midterm Elections, Partisan Context, and Political Leadership: The 2006 Elections and Party Alignment.

Authors :: Ceaser, James W.
DiSalvo, Daniel
Source :: Forum (2194-6183); 2006, Vol. 4 Issue 3, p1-16, 18p
Publication Year :: 2006
Abstract: This essay is an effort to delineate an important factor shaping the context of congressional and presidential leadership--the results of midterm elections--and to investigate the responses of leaders in the dramatic situation of the loss of majorities by the president's party in both houses of Congress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjects :: LEADERSHIP
ELECTIONS
POLITICAL science
PRESIDENTS
HEADS of state

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