[EL] seeking chapter proposals for book on presidential swing-state politics

Sun Jun 9 06:16:40 PDT 2013

Hi all:

I a co-editing a book with Stacey Hunter-Hecht tentatively entitled SWING
STATE POLITICS AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS and we are seeking chapter
proposals from authors.  Chapter proposals are due by August 15, 2013.

Please feel free to circulate this notice to colleagues or other listservs
where you think others may be interested in this request for proposals.

Presidential swing-states have become important political phenomena that
dominate media coverage of presidential elections.  Yet little is known
about why specific states are swings, how and why some have become or are
no longer swings, or why they may become so in the future.

Stacey Hunter Hecht of Bethel University and I would like to produce an
edited volume that examines the phenomena of presidential swing states.  We
are proposing a book that will include a series of chapters on different
states that will discuss why a specific state is presidential swing state,
or why it could become a swing state in the future.

We have employed four criteria to identify a first tier of seven swing
states that include: Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada,
Ohio, and Virginia, and a second tier of potential or future swing states
that include Iowa, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Texas.

We are inviting authors or teams of authors with expertise on a particular
state listed above to submit proposals for chapters that discuss why a
specific state has been or continues to be a swing state or why it may
become a swing state in the future.

Chapter proposals should be no more than one page.  These proposals should
provide an abstract for a chapter of 25-30 manuscript pages,
doubled-spaced, inclusive of charts, tables, notes, and bibliography.  Final
chapters will be written in APA style and should consider why the state
under discussion is a swing state as well as discuss the state’s future –  such
as will it remain a swing state, become a swing state, “swing” more
dramatically, etc..  All chapter proposals should also include a one
paragraph biography per person indicating why the author or authors are
qualified to write on the state they have chosen.

Our plan is to use the chapter proposals and biographies to create a book
proposal to present to publishers in the fall, 2013.

The time frame would be to have chapter proposals submitted to us by August
15, 2013, and then a book proposal submitted to a publisher in October,
2013.  Assuming we get a book contract, the goal would be to have first
drafts from authors by October 1, 2014, final drafts by January, 2015, and
then final publication of the book in late 2015 or early 2015, in time for
the 2016 presidential elections.  We would also like to propose a spring
2015 convention panel on the book at a regional conference and perhaps a
fall 2015 APSA panel.

In publishing this edited volume our aim is to make the book available for
classroom use and also for scholars, journalists, and the interested public.
We think this will be an exciting project that will put together 11
detailed case studies to explain the concept of presidential swing states.

If you are interested in submitting a chapter proposal for one of the
states listed above, or have any questions or queries about developing
proposal, please contact:

David Schultz, Professor

Department of Political Science

Hamline University

651.523.2858

dschultz at hamline.edu

Stacey Hunter Hecht

Department of Political Science

Bethel University

651.638.6468

hecsta at bethel.edu

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