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The Ohio Politics Almanac Third Edition, Revised and Updated Michael F. Curtin and Joe HallettRoughly a century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt said, I think there is only one thing in the world I can't understand, and that is Ohio politics. If The Ohio Politics Almanac had existed then, Roosevelt still might not have understood Ohio politics, but it wouldn't have been for lack of information. A comprehensive and authoritative resource, The Ohio Politics Almanac sheds light on the complexity of Ohio s electoral statistics.This third edition presents everything a journalist, political junkie, scholar, or candidate needs to know about Ohio demographics, elections, and government. It updates and expands on the Almanac's original chapters, including retrospectives on the state's 69 governors through 2014; a history of the General Assembly and its leaders, as well as the state s delegation to Congress; an examination of the structure of Ohio's judiciary and its key figures; important revisions to the state Constitution; the evolution of Ohio's political parties; and histories and statistical analyses of the state's 88 counties and biggest cities.
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Michael Curtin is the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also co-founder and Director of the Media Industries Project at the Carsey-Wolf Center (http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/mip). Curtin's research and teaching focus on media globalization, cultural geography, industry studies, and creative labor. He is currently at work on "Media Capital: The Cultural Geography of Globalization" and "Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor." Curtin is co-editor of Media Industries, global-e, the Chinese Journal of Communication, and the International Screen Industries book series of the British Film Institute. He and his partner, Melissa, live in Santa Barbara with their two cats: Bindi Baby and Long Tail.
