Players and Processes. Stephen Medvics Campaigns and Elections is a comprehensive yet compact core text that addresses two distinct but related aspects of American electoral democracythe processes that constitute campaigns and elections and the players who are involved. In addition to balanced coverage of process and actors, it also gives equal billing to both campaigns and elections, and covers contests for legislative and executive positions at the national and state and local levels, including issue-oriented campaigns of note. The new edition is fully updated through the 2016 election.