Elections category: 1210 books
Competitive Elections and Democracy in America
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Competition seems to be an inevitable part of present-day elections in the United States. However, recent publications have debated whether we should encourage or discourage competitive elections. In Competitive Elections and Democracy in America, Heather Evans closely examines the debate over competition...
by Bob Benenson, David R. Tarr
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Combining the rich content of the print edition with the advanced online functionality demanded by today's researchers, Elections A to Z: Online Edition is the ultimate 21st century research tool for finding current, accurate information on U.S. elections.
Advanced Web-enabled features allow...
Running for Judge
The Rising Political, Financial, and Legal Stakes of Judicial Elections
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Across the country, races for judgeships are becoming more and more politically contested. As a result, several states and cities are now considering judicial election reform. Running for Judge examines the increasingly contentious judicial elections over the last twenty-five years by providing a...
Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
While primary elections are most often associated with presidential candidates in the United States, similar methods for selecting party leaders and candidates are becoming increasingly common in parliamentary democracies around the world. The Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections introduces...
by Michal Shamir
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The Elections in Israel--2003 brings together leading Israeli and North American social scientists and their state-of-the-art, in-depth analysis of the 2003 Israeli national elections. These elections returned Ariel Sharon and the Likud to power amid one of the bloodiest rounds of conflict between...
by Pippa Norris
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The flaws in the American electoral process have become increasingly apparent in recent years. The contemporary tipping point in public awareness occurred during the 2000 election count, and concern deepened due to several major problems observed in the 2016 campaign, worsening party polarization,...
by Robert G. Boatright
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Congressional primaries are increasingly being blamed for polarization and gridlock in Congress. Most American states adopted congressional primaries during the first decades of the 20th century as a means of breaking the hold of political "bosses" on the nomination of candidates. Yet now,...
Indian General Elections 2014
An Astrological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
In its longest and costliest ever elections, India shall vote for 543 parliamentary constituencies with an electoral force of over 814 million voters, again largest in the world. The 2014 General Elections are slated to take place in 9 phases – beginning 7th April 2014 till 12th May 2014. The result...
Evaluating Elections
A Handbook of Methods and Standards
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In competitive and contested democratic elections, insuring integrity is critical. Evaluating Elections shows why systematic analysis and reporting of election performance is important and how data-driven performance management can be used by election officials to improve elections. The authors outline...
From Ballot to Bench
Judicial Elections and the Quest for Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Over several decades, many U.S. states abandoned the practice of selecting their judges by direct popular election and adopted the Missouri Plan of judicial selection. In From Ballot to Bench, Philip L. Dubois subjects the various criticisms raised against judicial elections to a more searching scrutiny...
After Hope and Change
The 2012 Elections and American Politics, Post 2014 Election Update
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Now updated to include the 2014 midterms and previewing the coming 2016 election cycle, After Hope and Change provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, including the presidential nomination process and election and congressional elections. As they have for...
Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan
Elections in an Unstable Political Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, researchers, policymakers, and the media have failed to consider the long-term implications of the country's post-conflict elections. Based on fieldwork in provinces across the country and interviews with more than seven hundred candidates, officials, community...
Descriptive Elections
Empowering the American Electorate
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Elections are in trouble with general low levels of interest and turnout; Jeanette Morehouse Mendez and Rebekah Herrick suggest that if candidates looked more like America does, these problems would decrease. They call these elections where candidates differ in key social demographic traits descriptive...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The elections for Israel's nineteenth Knesset were held on January 22, 2013. This volume offers an in-depth analysis of Israel's 2013 elections from various perspectives. It presents an up-to-date picture of the complexity of Israeli democracy, and its challenges, achievements, and failures.
The...