Research Paper: Final Assignment Instructions Overview The Research Paper: Final

Research Paper: Final Assignment
Instructions
Overview
The Research Paper: Final Assignment will be the
culmination of your work and previous assignments in the course. You will focus
on your selected and approved election and major campaigns selected in this
Thesis Proposal assignment.
The Research Paper Final will be 13-17 pages of text (ie, not
including title page and references) and in current Turabian format. The paper
must analyze a presidential election and the major candidates’ campaigns by
applying concepts studied in the course. The Research Paper Final must include
at least 17 scholarly references in addition to the course textbooks and the
Bible.
Instructions
Subject: An Analysis of
the 2008 Campaign between Obama and McCain
Your Final Research
Paper must:
Abstract
Introduction
1.
Discuss the political climate under which the
campaigns were run.
2.
Include a detailed history of the campaigns.
This will include, but isn’t necessarily limited to the following:
o
A discussion of the presidential primaries and
candidate strategies during them (note that analysis will differ substantially
for candidates in elections prior to the McGovern/Frasier reforms compared to
candidates following those reforms);
o
A discussion of the general election strategies
used by the candidates’ campaigns;
o
Campaign finance strategies and the amount of
money raised by the campaigns;
o
Communications strategies and tactics planned
and executed by the campaigns;
3.
Discuss the election results with specific
reference to the political geography of the Electoral College and voter
decisions.
o
Your discussion of the Electoral College should
compare your selected year’s results with prior years’ results, and relate the
results to the campaigns’ strategies.
o
Using the American National Election Studies
“Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior” Vote Choice tables for the
year you are analyzing, identify major demographic groups that strongly
supported or opposed the candidates and relate those differences to the
campaigns’ strategies.
o
If you are analyzing an election from 1972
onward find the national exit polls for that year (find recent elections
online; for earlier elections find through JFL); identify nondemographic
factors (such as attitudes and opinions) related to candidate support or
opposition and relate those factors to the campaigns’ strategies.
o
Discuss what the scholarly consensus seems to
be about the most important factors in voters’ choices in the election you’re
analyzing. Relate those findings to your analysis of the campaigns.
4.
Conduct a detailed analysis and evaluation of
the campaigns. This will include, but isn’t necessarily limited to the
following:
o
Significant issues or problems that emerged
during the campaign, and how the issues or problems were resolved.
o
Identify issues with the campaign that would
lead you to conclude it could have been managed differently.
o
A detailed evaluation and explanation of whether
the campaigns were run successfully, and why (be certain to go beyond simply
saying a campaign was effective because it won, or ineffective because it
lost).
Conclusion
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality
via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.
Reference to be cited with another 4 scholar
sources, make sure its scholar sources
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