[EL] seeking chapter proposals for book/ SWING STATE POLITICS AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

[Schultz, David A.]

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 October 1, 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 our swing states.  We have
already secured proposals for several but we are still looking for
proposals for: Colorado,, New Mexico, Ohio, Iowa, 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
October 1, 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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David Schultz, Professor
Editor, Journal of Public Affairs Education (JPAE)
Hamline University
Department of Political Science
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