Book Reviews

摘要

The fields of American national politics and urban politics have each developed their own paradigms for discussing elections. It is rare that experts in one field have more than a passing knowledge of the other. Two important recent books, Zoltan Hajnal's America's Uneven Democracy: Race, Turnout, and Representation in City Politics and Brian Adams's Campaign Finance in Local Elections: Buying the Grassroots, show how data from local elections can provide fresh insight into research problems that have for decades subsisted largely on information from elections at the national or state level.