• Cartoon: "Endangered Species" by Bill DeOre (83)
  
  
• The Politics of Elections (84)
  • Voters (84)
    • Democratization of the ballot (84)
    • Qualifications for voting (86)
    • Two trends in the suffrage (87)
    • Voters and nonvoters (87)
    • Voting early: in person and by mail (88)
  • Primaries (89)
    • Development of direct primaries (89)
    • Texas primaries (89)
    • Administering primaries (90)
    • Financing primaries (91)
  • General Elections (91)
    • Election schedules (91)
    • Voting systems (92)
  • Special Elections (92)
    • Figure 4.1 Sample Ballot, General Election, November 5, 1996 (93)
  • Administering Elections (94)
    • Voting precincts (94)
    • Election officials (94)
    • Vote counting and recounting (94)
    • Additional requirements (95)
  
  
• Party Structure (95)
  • Temporary Organization (95)
    • Figure 4.2 Texas Political Party Organization (96)
    • Precinct conventions (97)
    • County and district conventions (97)
    • State conventions (98)
  • Selection of National Convention Delegates (98)
    • Democratic selection (98)
    • Republican selection (99)
  • Permanent Organization (99)
    • Precinct chair (99)
    • County and district executive committees (99)
    • State Executive Committee (99)
  
  
• Political Democracy (100)
  • Ideology (100)
    • Conservativism (101)
    • Liberalism (101)
  • Major Political Parties (101)
    • Republican party (101)
    • Democratic party (102)
  • Third Parties (103)
    • Libertarian party (103)
    • Reform party (103)
  
  
• Recent Electoral Contests (104)
  • 1993: A Special Election to Fill a U.S. Senatorial Seat (104)
  • 1994: A Gubernatorial Election Year (104)
    • The 1994 primaries (105)
    • The 1994 general election (105)
  • 1996: A Presidential Election Year (105)
    • The 1996 primaries (106)
      • Photo: Victor Morales drives his white pickup (107)
    • The 1996 general election (107)
  • 1998: Another Republican Gubernatorial Election Year (108)
  
  
• Women in Politics (108)
  
  
• Racial/Ethnic Politics (109)
  • African Americans (110)
  • Hispanics (111)
  
  
• Political Campaigns (112)
  • Conducting Campaigns in the 1990s (112)
    • Nonissue campaigns (113)
    • Importance of the media (113)
    • Mudslide campaigns (113)
  • Financing Campaigns (114)
    • Contributions by PACs (115)
  • Regulation of Campaign Financing (115)
    • Federal regulation (115)
    • State regulation (115)
  
  
• Looking Ahead (116)
  
  
• Notes (117)
  
  
• Key Terms and Concepts (118)
  
  
• Selected Reading: "A Fly on the Wall at Polling Place #315" by Kelli Montgomery (119)
  • Early Bird on a 12-Hour Shift (120)
  • Getting to Know the Volunteer Precinct Workers (120)
  • The Election Process, A Calculated Science (121)
  • "Why Work?" I Asked the Volunteers (122)
  • Why Vote? (122)
  • Electioneering, a Softer Sell Today (123)
  • The Countdown and the Counting (123)