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The Defeat of Eric Cantor
- Lauren Cohen Bell
- Randolph-Macon College
- David Elliot Meyer
- Randolph-Macon College, Class of 2015
- Ronald Keith Gaddie
- University of Oklahoma
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About the Authors
Lauren C. Bellis Professor of Political Science and Dean of Academic Affairs at Randolph-Macon College, in Ashland, Virginia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Wooster and Masters of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at The University of Oklahoma. Bell previously served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow on the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary and a United States Supreme Court fellow at the United States Sentencing Commission in Washington, DC.Dr. Bell is the author of
Filibustering in the U.S. Senate (Cambria Press, 2011),
Warring Factions: Interest Groups, Money, and the New Politics of Senate Confirmation (The Ohio State University Press, 2002) and
The U.S. Congress, A Simulation for Students (Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005) as well as co-author of
Perspectives on Political Communication: A Case Approach (Allyn & Bacon, 2008). In addition to these books, she has published single- and co-authored articles in several peer-reviewed journals, including
The Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, The Journal of Legislative Studies, The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and Judicature.Ronald Keith Gaddieis Presidents Associates Presidential Professor & Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma, associate director of the OU Center for Intelligence and National Secturity, and editor of Social Science Quarterly. He previously taught at Tulane University and Centre College. Keith received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia (1993) and his undergraduate degree from Florida State University (1987). He has published over 20 books on campaign politics, election law, sports, and fiction, including
The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act (2016);
The Three Governors Controversy: Skullduggery, Machinations, and the Decline of Georgias Progressive Politics (2015);
Politics in America, 10th & 11th eds (2014, 2016);
Georgia Politics in a State of Change, 1st & 2d eds. (2009, 2013);
Ghosts on Vintners Landing: A Novel (2010);
The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South (2009, winner of the V. O. Key Award); and
University of Georgia Football (2008).David Elliot Meyerserves as a Special Assistant in the Office of Governor Terence R. McAuliffe. He graduated from Randolph-Macon College with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Political Science. Elliot participated in the 2014 Schapiro Undergraduate Research Fellowship and presented his research paper, Crashing the Tea Party: The Effects of the Tea Party on U.S. House of Representative Elections at the 2015 Southern Political Science Association Conference.
Preface
This book should not exist because the events it describes should never have happened. Eric Cantor was not supposed to lose his primary election in 2014. But despite the majority leader spending nearly $6 million and completely dominating every conventional form of campaign media, he was defeated. An inevitable march toward the Speakership of the U.S. House of Representatives was derailed by an economics professor from a small liberal arts college who leaned in and challenged one of the most powerful people in Washington.
Our project began with a bit of good fortune in the unlikely form of Elliot Meyers undergraduate research project, conducted under the direction of Lauren C. Bell. The emerging trend in undergraduate political science education in the twenty-first century is to arm undergraduates with research skills, some basis in the literature, and then aim them at empirical questions in politics. Students are supposed to take to the streets and engage in research that allows them to see how the scholarship they read reflects the larger political world we study. Lauren Bell and Keith Gaddie come from a strong tradition of field observation, interviewing, and mixed-methods examination of empirical political puzzles. In particular, both of the faculty contributors to this book were deeply invested in field observation techniques such as those employed by Richard Fenno Jr. in his book Home Style: House Members in Their Districts
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