Vice Presidents, Presidential Elections, and the Media : : Second Fiddles in the Spotlight.

Do vice presidential candidates play any significant role in presidential elections? Challenging the conventional wisdom, Stacy Ulbig shows the important ways in which they do in fact affect election outcomes. She also assesses the impact of a range of vice presidential candidates and considers how...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]
©2013
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (140 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables and Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Do Voters Care About Vice Presidents?
  • 2. The Varying Impact of Vice Presidential Candidates
  • 3. How the Amount of Media Coverage Matters
  • 4. How the Negativity of Media Coverage Matters
  • 5. How Media Coverage of Sociodemogaphics Matters
  • 6. How Media Coverage of Candidate Traits Matters
  • 7. The Performance of Second Fiddles
  • Appendix A: Survey Measures and Coding
  • Appendix B: Selection and Coding of Media Content
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Book