Clicker Politics: Essays on the California Recall

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction

Shaun Bowler and Bruce E. Cain

 2. Barriers to Recalling Elected Officials: A Cross-State Analysis of the Incidence and Success of Recall Petitions

 Bruce E. Cain, Melissa Cully Anderson, Annette K. Eaton

 3. Statistical Regularities in the Recall Results,

Drew Linzer

 4. Recalling the Realignment Literature: Did October 2003 Bring a Critical Election?

Thad Kousser  

 5. Viewing the Recall from Above and Below

 Jack Citrin and Jonathan Cohen

 6. Rational Voters and the Recall Election

R. Michael Alvarez, D. Roderick Kiewiet, and Betsy Sinclair

 7. The Race Card and California Politics: Minority Voters and Racial Cues in the 2003 Recall Election

Matt A. Barreto and Ricardo Ramíriz

 8. Opportunities Lost? Latinos, Cruz Bustamante, and California’s Recall

Louis De Sipio and Natalie Masuoka

 9. Political Potential: Asian Americans, California Politics, and the Recall Election

Natalie Masuoka and Daniel HoSang

10. Race, Gender, and the Recall Vote

Becki Scola and Lisa Garcia Bedolla

11. Cirque du Sacramento and Weary Californian: State and National Coverage of the Recall Campaign

Martin Johnson, Chris Stout, Shaun Bowler, and Max Neiman

12. The California Recall Punch Card Litigation: Why Bush v. Gore Does Not “Suck”

Richard L. Hasen