Elections category: 1210 books
by Peter Bergerson, Margaret Banyan, William K. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The 2012 congressional elections played an equally vital role in determining the future course of America as the presidential race that topped the electoral ticket. Readers of this book will gain insights about the formative aspects of the 2012 campaign season as well as in depth coverage of key races...
Unconventional Wisdom
Facts and Myths About American Voters
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
Late deciders go for the challenger; turnout helps the Democrats; the gender gap results from a surge in Democratic preference among women--these and many other myths are standard fare among average citizens, political pundits, and even some academics. But are these conventional wisdoms--familiar...
by Wayne P. Steger, Andrew Dowdle, Randall E. Adkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
The newest installment in a quadrennial series that now spans five presidential elections, this book presents a broad overview of the presidential nomination process and showcases some of the most interesting work now being done on the politics of presidential selection. Written by leading experts,...
by Lorraine C. Minnite
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Allegations that widespread voter fraud is threatening to the integrity of American elections and American democracy itself have intensified since the disputed 2000 presidential election. The claim that elections are being stolen by illegal immigrants and unscrupulous voter registration activists...
Winning Elections
Political Campaign Management, Strategy, and Tactics
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
This is an advanced guide to running political campaigns. It provides invaluable, practical advice from the leading pros in the industry.
Get Out the Vote
How to Increase Voter Turnout
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The most important element in every election is getting voters to the polls-these get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts make the difference between winning and losing office.
With the first two editions of Get Out the Vote, Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber broke ground by introducing a new scientific...
Campaigning in the Twenty-First Century
Activism, Big Data, and Dark Money
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
In view of the 2016 US election season, the second edition of this book analyzes the way political campaigns have been traditionally run and the extraordinary changes that have occurred since 2012. Dennis W. Johnson looks at the most sophisticated techniques of modern campaigning—micro-targeting,...
Defying the Odds
The 2016 Elections and American Politics, Post 2018 Election Update
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
Now updated to include the 2018 midterms and previewing the coming 2020 election cycle, Defying the Odds provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, including the presidential nomination process and election and congressional elections. With its keen insights...
by Professor Elizabeth A. Theiss-Morse, Michael W. Wagner, William H. Flanigan
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The 2016 elections took place under intense political polarization and uncertain economic conditions, to widely unexpected results. How did Trump pull off his victory?
Political Behavior of the American Electorate, Fourteenth Edition, attempts to answer this question by interpreting data from...
The Political Brain
The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, has explored a theory of the mind that differs substantially from the more "dispassionate"...
The Electoral Challenge
Theory Meets Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
What decides elections? Is it the national economic condition, voters’ partisan attachments, or the campaigns that candidates run? How much do campaigns matter? Scholars and political consultants will give you different answers. Stephen C. Craig and David B. Hill bring together the voices of both...
The Selfie Vote
Where Millennials Are Leading America (And How Republicans Can Keep Up)
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
The GOP’s leading millennial pollster offers an eye-opening look at America’s shifting demographics and reveals how these changes will affect future elections.
The American electorate is undergoing a radical transformation. Cultural factors are reshaping how a new generation of voters considers...
Campaigning for President 2012
Strategy and Tactics, New Voices and New Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
In this important and timely volume, Dennis W. Johnson has assembled an outstanding team of political scientists and political professionals to examine one of the fiercest and most closely fought presidential elections of our time. Like its predecessor, Campaigning for President 2008, Campaigning...
European Political Parties as Campaign Organisations
as Campaign Organisations: Towards a Greater Politicization of the European Parliament Elections
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
This paper looks at the origins and development of the European political parties, describes the campaign strategies in the recent European elections, analyses the results and implications of Europarties’ campaign involvement and outlines challenges and prospects for the future.