Elections category: 1210 books
Small Change
Money, Political Parties, and Campaign Finance Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Reformers lament that, with every effort to regulate the sources of campaign funding, candidates creatively circumvent the new legislation. But in fact, political fundraisers don't need to look for loopholes because, as Raymond J. La Raja proves, legislators intentionally design regulations to gain...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Our portraits of voters, their relationship to parties, and the behavior of elected party members have changed significantly within the last 10 to 15 years. Characterizations of dealignment and decreased importance of parties have been fairly rapidly replaced by a focus on party polarization. Voters...
Party Competition
An Agent-Based Model
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Party competition for votes in free and fair elections involves complex interactions by multiple actors in political landscapes that are continuously evolving, yet classical theoretical approaches to the subject leave many important questions unanswered. Here Michael Laver and Ernest Sergenti offer...
Electing Judges
The Surprising Effects of Campaigning on Judicial Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
In Electing Judges, leading judicial politics scholar James L. Gibson responds tothe growing chorus of critics who fear that the politics of running for office undermine judicial independence and even the rule of law. While many people have opinions on the topic, few have supported them with actual...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
As the 2015 general election looms on the horizon, the only thing anyone can seem to agree on is that it will be unpredictable, not least because, for the first time in our history, we are experiencing the brave new world of four-party politics. Here, in one volume, is everything you need to know...
Latino America
How America's Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Sometime in April 2014, somewhere in a hospital in California, a Latino child tipped the demographic scales as Latinos displaced non-Hispanic whites as the largest racial/ethnic group in the state. So, one-hundred-sixty-six years after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought the Mexican province of...
No Debate
How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Broadcast to tens of millions of Americans, the presidential debates are the Super Bowl of politics. A good performance before the cameras can vault a contender to the front of the pack, while a gaffe spells national embarrassment and can savage a candidacy. The slim margin for error has led the two...
DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans
No More Gangs in Government
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans uncovers the truth about how corporations have bought the American electoral and legislative process through the power of lobbyists, campaign contributions and political action committees. Covering historical details such as the development of the two-party system and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This comprehensive reference covers all aspects of politics and voting—from elections and campaigns, to major political figures and parties, to the role of media and major activist groups.
• Includes 220 alphabetically arranged entries on American voting and related topics
• Features...
GOP GPS
How to Find the Millennials and Urban Voters the Republican Party Needs to Survive
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
**“**A Democrat’s worst nightmare . . . Siegfried makes a compelling case for how the GOP can transform itself into a modern day party with broad appeal” (Jessica Tarlov, political strategist and Fox News commentator).
With the decline of Republican stalwart supporters—Baby Boomers and...
How We Elected Lincoln
Personal Recollections
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Abram J. Dittenhoefer was a young South Carolinian who embraced abolition and moved to New York in order to work for the newly formed Republican party and its antislavery platform. Even though he was in his early twenties, he quickly established himself as a savvy and creative campaigner, and when...
Who Votes Now?
Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
Who Votes Now? compares the demographic characteristics and political views of voters and nonvoters in American presidential elections since 1972 and examines how electoral reforms and the choices offered by candidates influence voter turnout. Drawing on a wealth of data from the U.S. Census Bureau's...
The Real Making of the President
Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victory—whether as an underdog's heroic triumph or a liberal crusader's overcoming special interests. Now W. J. Rorabaugh cuts through the mythology of this famous election to explain the nuts-and-bolts...
The Deadlocked Election of 1800
Jefferson, Burr, and the Union in the Balance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
It was one of the most critical elections of American history, overshadowed only by the one that plunged the country into civil war. The deadlocked election of 1800 has earned considerable attention and debate from historians; now James Roger Sharp reveals that modern observers didn't necessarily...