From Votes to Victory: Winning and Governing the White House in the 21st Century

This volume examines the challenges of winning the White House and becoming president in the twenty-first century. Beginning with the resources candidates must secure to gain their party's nomination, continuing through the general election campaign, and concluding with some of the challenges that the victor will face upon taking office, From Votes to Victory presents cogent analysis of the path from campaign to governance.

In focusing on the 2008 presidential race as a case study of twenty-first century presidential campaigns, the volume offers an early assessment of the structural changes that have reshaped presidential elections and governance in recent years. To address these questions about presidential campaigns and governance in the twenty-first century, the contributors met during a one-day symposium at Hofstra University's Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency on April 3, 2008.

The interdisciplinary approach and diverse intellectual backgrounds of the contributorsuincluding history, political science, American studies, and political communicationupermit a multifaceted analysis of the ways in which presidential elections have changed fundamentally in recent years. The analyses situate recent elections and the 2008 campaign in a broader study of the enduring obstacles and challenges that presidential candidates in the twenty-first century face in running for and winning office. Consequently, From Votes to Victory: Winning and Governing the White House in the Twenty-first Century will be of interest to students of the American presidency and presidential elections and will be a valuable resource for classroom use as well as scholarly research.

Meena Bose, the volume editor, holds the Peter S. Kalikow Chair in Presidential Studies and directs the Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University. Her PhD is from Princeton University.