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handle is hein.amenin/aeiabcl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Democracy at the Polls- A Comparative Study of Competitive National Elections, edited by David Butler, Howard R. Penniman, and Austin Ranney, examines national elections in twenty-eight countries, includ- ing Israel, India, Venezuela, and Japan, as well as the Anglo-American and European democracies. In addition to analyzing underlying pat- terns, this volume catalogs such matters as electoral systems, candi- date selection, party organization and ideology, campaign practices, media access, campaign financing, and voter turnout. It also traces the following themes: the long-term effects of electoral rules on the shape of political life the unique features of electoral politics in the United States the frequency with which elections decide major constitutional issues, alter party systems, or redirect policy the prevalence of the new politics of opinion research and media professionals. In addition to the editors, the contributors consist of twelve lead- ing students of electoral politics from the United States, Britain, Canada, and the Netherlands: Ivor Crewe, Leon D. Epstein, Dennis Kavanagh, Anthony King, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Arend Lijphart, Khay- yam Zev Paltiel, Anthony Smith, and Donald E. Stokes. David Butler is a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and director of the Nuffield series of studies of British general elections. Howard R. Penniman is general editor of the American Enterprise Institute's At the Polls series and an election consultant to the American Broadcast- ing Company. Austin Ranney, a former president of the American Political Science Association, is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. ISBN 0-8447-3405-5 clothbound edition ISBN 0-8447-3403-9 paperback edition m 0 0 m American Ente,,Pn's, InstUte Studies in Pokical anld Socia Prc (,sses At thePcs M\ A % L. '4 10 aiai il a ,uI n, vr\\ .......... .......... ........... .... ...... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .......... .......... . ......... . . ........ American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1150 Seventeenth Street, NW., Washington, D.C. 20036 . 7818/A 734057