Choosing the Chief: Presidential Elections in France and the United States

by Roy Pierce

By focusing on the central theme of how presidential candidates emerge and how the voters perceive and evaluate them, Choosing the Chief presents a clear and complete picture of how the constitutional frameworks, electoral laws, party systems, social structures, and pivotal historical developments have converged to produce distinctive patterns of presidential politics in both France and the United States.
"Pierce provides a very sound investigation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472084747
• ISBN13: 9780472084746
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"