Races, Reforms, & Policy: Implications of the 2014 Midterm Elections

In March 2015, scholars gathered at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College to consider not just what had happened on Election Night 2014, but what those results suggest about the direction of American politics. The chapters in this volume are refined and revised versions of select papers presented at our
conference, the second such post election conference held at Saint Anselm College. The authors include some who are well-known scholars and others who are at the very beginning of their careers.
Some take broad overviews of the election and others focus on very specific tactics or techniques used in the
election. Most are political scientists, but some are scholars who study communications or sociology. Some
perform historical analyses, while others examine the content of campaign communications, and others deploy
sophisticated statistical models. The variety of our authors and of the methods they use to study the 2014
election and its consequences is, we believe, one of the strengths of this book, and makes the volume a deeper
and richer analysis than it otherwise would be.