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| Author | Richard E. Cohen, James A. Barnes,Charlie Cook,Michael Barone |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Politics of the United States[1] |
| Genre | Reference book |
| Published | Biennially from 1972 through 2024; most recently in 2024 |
| Publisher | Columbia Books & Information Services,Ballotpedia |
| Publication place | United States |
| ISBN | 978-1938518294 |
| Website | www |
The Almanac of American Politics is areference work published biennially byColumbia Books & Information Services.[2] It aims to provide a detailed look at thepolitics of the United States through an approach of profiling individual leaders and areas of the country. The first edition of theAlmanac was published in 1972. TheNational Journal published biennial editions of theAlmanac from 1984 through 2014.[3] In 2015, Columbia Books & Information Services became the publisher.[4]
TheAlmanac is broken down alphabetically bystate, with eachcongressional district in each state profiled separately. The information provided by theAlmanac includes:
In addition, an overview look at each state is given, including prospects for the upcomingpresidential election and demographic trends.
The 2014 and 2012 editions of theAlmanac are both 1,838 pages long. TheAlmanac was first published in 1971; subsequent editions have appeared biennially since 1973. The main editors were originallyMichael Barone, now a writer at theWashington Examiner; Grant Ujifusa; and Douglas Matthews. Matthews stopped contributing after the 1980 edition. Barone and Chuck McCutcheon authored the 2012 edition, and were joined by Sean Trende and Josh Kraushaar for the 2014 edition. The co-authors of the 2016 edition are Barone,Richard E. Cohen,Charlie Cook, and James A. Barnes.[5]
Richard E. Cohen co-authoredThe Almanac of American Politics from 2001 through 2010, and again in 2016. He has written about Congress forNational Journal,Politico andCongressional Quarterly. He is the author ofWashington at Work: Back Rooms and Clean Air, a case study of the1990 Clean Air Act, andRostenkowski: The Pursuit of Power and the End of the Old Politics. He co-authoredThe Partisan Divide with former Reps.Tom Davis of Virginia andMartin Frost of Texas. In 1990, he won theEverett McKinley Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting on Congress.[6]
James A. Barnes is a senior writer forBallotpedia and consultant toCNN, projecting the outcomes of presidential, congressional and gubernatorial races for its election night and primary night coverage. He was formerly the chief political correspondent forNational Journal magazine and founder of the National Journal Insiders Poll. He is co-author ofPublic Opinion among Political Elites: The Insiders Poll as a Research Toll inThe Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics (2013), and a contributor toThe State of American Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).
Charlie Cook is editor and publisher of theCook Political Report and a political analyst forNational Journal, where he writes a twice weekly column. In 2010, Cook was a co-recipient of theAmerican Political Science Association's Carey McWilliams award to honor “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” For the spring semester of 2013, Cook served as a Resident Fellow at theInstitute of Politics atHarvard Kennedy School atHarvard University.
Barone is Senior Political Analyst for theWashington Examiner and a Resident Fellow at theAmerican Enterprise Institute. He is a contributor to Fox News Channel and co-author ofThe Almanac of American Politics 1972-2016. He is also the author ofOur Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan,The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again, and a number of other publications. Barone received the Bradley Prize from theLynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in 2010, the Barbara Olsen Award fromThe American Spectator in 2006 and the Carey McWilliams Award from theAmerican Political Science Association in 1992.
The 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010 editions were authored by Barone and Richard E. Cohen, the congressional correspondent for theNational Journal, and edited by Charles Mahtesian.[7][8][9][10][11][12]
