Description: Editors Harold Stanley and Richard Niemi have consulted hundreds of sources to calculate and locate the data, facts and figures that offer a vivid and multifaceted portrait of the broad spectrum of United States politics and policies.
Brief description:
Harold W. Stanley is the Geurin-Pettus Distinguished Chair in American Politics and Political Economy at Southern Methodist University (SMU). In 1979, he joined the University of Rochester Department of Political Science and served as its chair from 1996 to 1999. Known as an expert in American national politics and electoral change in the South, Stanley currently serves as associate provost at SMU.