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October Table of Contents October Table of Contents

Symposium: Forecasting the 2008 National Elections
Editor's Introduction
James E. Campbell

On the Razor’s Edge: The Forecast of the Primary Model
Helmut Norpoth
 
The Job of the President and the Jobs Model Forecast: Obama for ’08?
Michael S. Lewis-Beck and Charles Tien

Forecasting the 2008 Presidential Election with the Time-for-Change Model
Alan I. Abramowitz

The Trial-Heat Forecast of the 2008 Presidential Vote: Performance and Value Evaluations in an Open-Seat Election
James E. Campbell

Leading Economic Indicators, the Polls, and the Presidential Vote
Robert S. Erikson and Christopher Wlezien

Incumbency, National Conditions, and the 2008 Presidential Election
Thomas M. Holbrook

Election Forecasting: The Future of the Presidency and the House
Brad Lockerbie

Forecasting the 2008 Presidential Election: A Challenge for the Fiscal Model
Alfred G. Cuzán and Charles M. Bundrick

Forecasting the 2008 U.S. House, Senate, and Presidential Elections at the District and State Level
Carl Klarner

The Playing Field Shifts: Predicting the Seats-Votes Curve in the 2008 U.S. House Elections
Jonathan P. Kastellec, Andrew Gelman, and Jamie P. Chandler

Symposium: Gender, Race, and the 2008 Presidential Election
“Seeing What Has Always Been”: Opening Study of the Presidency
Georgia Duerst-Lahti, editor

Black Politics, the 2008 Election, and the (Im)Possibility of Race Transcendence
Valeria Sinclair-Chapman and Melanye Price

Likeable? Effective Commander in Chief? Polling on Candidate Traits in the “Year of the Presidential Woman”
Barbara Burrell

“Should They Dance with the One Who Brung ‘Em?” Latinos and the 2008 Presidential Election
Matt A. Barreto, Luis R. Fraga, Sylvia Manzano, Valerie Martinez-Ebers, and Gary M. Segura

Gender in the 2008 Presidential Election: Two Types of Time Collide
Patricia Lee Sykes

Features
The 2006 New Orleans Mayoral Election: The Political Ramifications of a Large-Scale Natural Disaster.
James Vanderleeuw and Baodong Liu

Income, Preferences, and the Dynamics of Policy Responsiveness
Joseph Daniel Ura and Christopher R. Ellis

Indoctrination U.? Faculty Ideology and Changes in Student Political Orientation
Mack D. Mariani and Gordon J. Hewitt

The Veepstakes: Forecasting Vice Presidential Selection in 2008
Jody C. Baumgartner

The Profession
A Primer on Applying to the Liberal Arts College
James E. Hanley

Trial by Fire: Surviving the Job Talk Q&A
Ron Hassner

Struggling to be Noticed: The Civil Rights Movement as an Academic Agenda Setter
Harwood K. McClerking and Tasha Philpot

“Written, Published . . . Cross-indexed, and Footnoted”: Plotting the Production of Scholarship on Black Women’s and Gender Studies in Political Science
Nikol Alexander-Floyd

Courting Success: The Supreme Court Fellows Program at 35
Jon B. Gould, Lauren C. Bell, Terence J. Lau, and John M. Domurad

Open Research Questions on Information and Technology in Global and Domestic Politics—Beyond "E-"
Micah Altman and Ken Rogerson

The Teacher
All-Knowing or All-Nurturing? Student Expectations, Gender Roles, and Practical Suggestions for Women in the Classroom
Michelle Dion

Empathy, Prejudice, and Fostering Tolerance
Kristen Renwick Monroe

Learning to Learn; Learning to Win: How to Succeed in the Simulated World of Model NATO
Andrey Meleshevich and Howard Tamashiro

Bottom Up Comparative Politics: Game Theory Abroad
Ruth Lane