Gary C. Jacobson

This book on Congressional politics and elections was assigned reading in a political science course I took in college. It covered campaign strategy, voting behavior, national forces, gerrymandering, election law, presidential coattail, the power of the incumbency, divided government, campaign finance and more. It's a very scholarly book with charts and loads of statistics. I never found it dry--I found it fascinating in fact. But then, I was a political science major by choice, with a background in campaigns--so of course this would appeal to my inner political geek. If I have any reservations in recommending it, it's that its very currency back in 1997 would mean a lot of the information--I would especially assume that to be the case in campaign finance--would be outdated.… (altro)