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The Election of the Century: The 2000 Election and What it Tells Us About American Politics in the New Millennium The 2000 Election and What it Tells Us About American Politics in the New Millennium

By Stephen J. Wayne, Clyde Wilcox Copyright 2002
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book places the 2000 presidential and congressional elections into the larger and future context of American politics. The essays in Part I focus on the role of "wedge" issues in 2000, including the economy, foreign policy, and race. Part II examines the electorate in terms of gender, religion, and age. Part III analyzes Republican and Democratic strategies in 2000. Part IV focuses in on specific factors affecting the 2000 races including the Clinton factor.

    This study looks at the effects of "global" phenomena -- trans-Saharan trade, European expansion, the rise of an Atlantic plantation complex, industrialization, imperialism, colonialism, world wars, growth of a world market, political independence and economic dependence -- on the way of life in Niumi, a small area at the mouth of the Gambia river in West Africa (now called The Gambia), over the last six-seven hundred years. Written in clear, accessible prose, and drawing on archival and oral traditions, the work considers global developments from a local/regional perspective.

    Biography

    Stephen J. Wayne, Clyde Wilcox