The Elections of 2016

Michael Nelson is Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College and a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. A former editor of the Washington Monthly, his most recent books include Trump's First Year (2018); The Elections of 2016 (2018); The Evolving Presidency: Landmark Documents (2019); The American Presidency: Origins and Development (with Sidney M. Milkis, 2011); and Governing at Home: The White House and Domestic Policymaking (with Russell B. Riley, 2011). Nelson has contributed to numerous journals, including the Journal of Policy History, Journal of Politics, and Political Science Quarterly. He also has written multiple articles on subjects as varied as baseball, Frank Sinatra, and C. S. Lewis. More than fifty of his articles have been anthologized in works of political science, history, and English composition. His 2014 book, Resilient America: Electing Nixon, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government, won the American Political Science Association's Richard E. Neustadt Award for best book on the presidency published that year; and his 2006 book with John Lyman Mason, How the South Joined the Gambling Nation, won the Southern Political Science Association's V.O. Key Award.

Preface The Setting: Broadening the Presidential Talent Pool---for Better and Worse - Michael Nelson The Nominations: The Road to a Much-Disliked General Election - William G. Mayer The Election: The Allure of the Outsider - Marc J. Hetherington Voting Behavior: Continuity and Confusion in the Electorate - Nicole E. Mellow The Media: Covering Donald Trump - Marjorie Randon Hershey Campaign Finance: Where Big Money Mattered and Where It Didn't - Marian Currinder Congress: Nationalized, Polarized, and Partisan - Gary C. Jacobson The Presidency: Donald Trump and the Question of Fitness - Paul J. Quirk The Meaning of the 2016 Election: The President as Minority Leader - Andrew Rudalevige

"The strength is the authors' ability to integrate political science research into readable essays that are accessible to undergraduates. Moreover, the articles-and the book-are brief, which is a virtue in an undergraduate class, and all the essays are quite good. I have assigned this book every year in my course on the presidency, and with good reason-it is consistently the best one available on this topic." -- Matthew Dickinson "Past editions of Mike Nelson's elections series have been excellent in the immediate aftermath of the presidential election. They effectively capture the events of the campaigns and the circumstances leading up to the campaigns." -- William Field