Describes and analyzes the crucial politics, procedures, and strategies behind campaign finance, media relations, nominating politics, and various aspects of the general election from the institutional structure in which it occurs, the quest for the nomination of the major parties, to the politics, [...]

Is this any way to run a democratic election? This edition answers that important question by looking at both recent events and scholarship focused on the democratic electoral process, including data and timely illustrations from the 2012 elections.[...]