Electing America’s Governors: The Politics of Executive Elections

1. Introduction: Why Study How Governors Are Elected?
David L. Leal

2. Election Outcomes: Campaign Expenditures and Candidate Quality
David L. Leal

3. Election Outcomes: State and National Economic and Social Conditions
David L. Leal

4. Voter Turnout: Competition, Candidates, and Conditions
David L. Leal

5. Candidate Quality Revisited
David L. Leal

6. Gubernatorial versus Senate Election Dynamics: Progressive Ambition
David L. Leal

7. Gubernatorial versus Senate Election Dynamics: Electoral Competition and Campaign Intensity
David L. Leal

8. Gubernatorial versus Senate Election Dynamics: Third-Party and Independent Campaigns
David L. Leal

9. Conclusions
David L. Leal

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, European Politics, Political Science