The Vp Advantage: How Running Mates Influence Home State Voting in Presidential Elections - Hardcover

Devine, Christopher; Kopko, Kyle C.

 
9781784993375: The Vp Advantage: How Running Mates Influence Home State Voting in Presidential Elections
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1784993379 ISBN 13: 9781784993375
Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2016

Synopsis

A widespread perception exists among political commentators, campaign operatives and presidential candidates that vice presidential (VP) running mates can deliver their home state's electoral votes in a presidential election. In recent elections, presidential campaigns have even changed their strategy in response to the perceived VP home state advantage. But is the advantage real? And could it decide a presidential election? In the most comprehensive analysis to date, Devine and Kopko demonstrate that the VP home state advantage is actually highly conditional and rarely decisive in the Electoral College. However, it could change the outcome of a presidential election under narrow but plausible conditions. Sophisticated in its methodology and rich in historical as well as contemporary insight, The VP Advantage is essential and accessible reading for anyone interested in understanding how running mates influence presidential elections.

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About the Authors

Christopher J. Devine is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Ohio, USA

Kyle C. Kopko is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, USA

From the Back Cover

A widespread perception exists among political commentators, campaign operatives and presidential candidates that vice presidential (VP) running mates can deliver their home state's electoral votes in a presidential election. In recent elections, presidential campaigns have even changed their strategy in response to the perceived VP home state advantage. But is the advantage real? And could it decide a presidential election? In the most comprehensive analysis to date, Devine and Kopko demonstrate that the VP home state advantage is actually highly conditional and rarely decisive in the Electoral College. However, it could change the outcome of a presidential election under narrow but plausible conditions. Sophisticated in its methodology and rich in historical as well as contemporary insight, The VP Advantage is essential and accessible reading for anyone interested in understanding how running mates influence presidential elections.

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1784993379
ISBN 13 
9781784993375
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
216

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