Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction, Jan E. Leighley
Part II: Research Design
2. The State of Survey Research as a Research Tool in American Politics, Lonna Rae Atkeson
3. Optimizing Survey Questionnaire Design in Political Science: Insights from Psychology, Josh Pasek and Jon A. Krosnick
4. Field Experiments and the Study of Political Behavior, Tiffany C. Davenport, Alan S. Gerber, and Donald P. Green
5. Formal Modeling, Strategic Behavior, and the Study of American Elections, John H. Aldrich and Arthur Lupia
Part III: Participation
6. Why Is American Turnout So Low, and Why Should We Care?, Michael D. Martinez
7. American Voter Turnout in Historical Perspective, Michael P. McDonald
8. Expanding the Possibilities: Reconceptualizing Political Participation as a Tool Box, Fredrick Harris and Daniel Gillion
9. Voter Registration: Turnout, Representation, and Reform, Robert D. Brown
10. Early, Absentee, and Mail-In Voting, Robert M. Stein and Greg Vonnahme
11. Digital Democracy: How Politics Online is Changing Electoral Participation, Karen Mossberger and Caroline J. Tolbert
12. Voting Technology, R. Michael Alvarez and Thad E. Hall
Part IV: Vote Choice
13. The Study of Electoral Behavior, Larry M. Bartels
14. The American Voter, William G. Jacoby
15. Politics, Expertise, and Interdependence within Electorates, T.K. Ahn, Robert Huckfeldt, Alexander K. Mayer, and John B. Ryan
16. Constructing the Vote: Media Effects in a Constructionist Model, Maria Armoudian, Ann N Crigler
17. Campaign Effects on Vote Choice, Sunshine Hillygus
18. Forecasting U.S. Presidential Elections, Thomas Holbrook
Part V: Interests, Self- and Otherwise
19. Economics, Elections and Voting Behavior, Suzanna Linn, Jonathan Nagler, and Marco A. Morales
20. Latinos and Political Behavior: Defining Community to Examine Critical Complexities, John A. Garcia
21. Organizing American Politics, Organizing Gender, Kira Sanbonmatsu
22. Gauging the God Gap: Religion and Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections, John C. Green
Part VI: Elections Other than Presidential
23. Local and National Forces in Congressional Elections, Barry C. Burden and Amber Wichowsky
24. The Study of Local Elections in American Politics, Melissa J. Marschall
25. Studying State Judicial Races in a Transformed Electoral Environment, Laura Langer, Meghan Leonard and Andrea Polk
26. Primary Elections, Barbara Norrander
27. Direct Democracy in the United States, Shaun Bowler, Todd Donovan
Part VII: Elites and Institutions
28. Voters in Context: The Politics of Citizen Behavior, Walter J. Stone and Matthew K. Buttice
29. Getting Up Off the Canvass: Rethinking the Study of Mobilization, Kenneth M. Goldstein and Matthew Holleque
30. Parties, Elections, and Democratic Politics, John H. Aldrich and John D. Griffin
31. Organized Interests: Evolution and Influence, Peter L. Francia
32. Money and American Elections, Lynda Powell and Clyde Wilcox
33. Redistricting, Bernard Grofman and Thomas L. Brunell
34. American Electoral Practices in Comparative Perspective, Mark N. Franklin and Till Weber
Part VIII: Reflections
35. On Participation: Individuals, Dynamic Categories, and the Context of Power, Jane Junn
36. Studying American Elections, Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich and David W. Rohde
37. In Search of Representation Theory, Patricia A. Hurley and Kim Quaile Hill