Jacobson's classic work offers readers a systematic and engaging account of what goes on in congressional elections and demonstrates how electoral politics reflect and shape other basic components of our political system. The Fifth Edition brings everything up to date through the 1998 elections, analyzing new electoral trends that have appeared in the 1990sincluding the Republicans' rise to majority status and their current precarious hold on Congresswhile also offering a thorough consideration of impeachment politics in 1998 and 1999.