Elections category: 1210 books
Hired to Fight, Hired to Win
Hired to Fight, Hired to Win
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
When it comes to elections, campaigns matter. And despite the ever-increasing role of volunteers and amateurs, modern American political campaigns are a professional affair. Understanding how they are run and how campaign strategies are set requires an in-depth analysis of what political consultants...
Guilty By Reason of Insanity
Why The Democrats Must Not Win
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
The Democratic Party is now a party of leftist extremism -- radical to the point of insanity: socialist, anti-Christian, in favor of de facto infanticide, and opposed to the rule of law (when it does not suit their purposes, including on the border). Best-sellling author David Limbaugh warns that...
Running for the People?
How Canadian Elections Favour the Career Politician
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Running for the People? is an insider’s account of Canada’s electoral process that reveals how deeply broken it is. Rem Westland ran in the 2011 federal election, representing the Conservative Party of Canada in the riding of Ottawa-Vanier. He describes the weakness of electoral district associations,...
Voting to Kill
How 9/11 Launched the Era of Republican Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In Voting to Kill, author Jim Geraghty offers a comprehensive look at why recent elections have given the Republican Party its greatest political success since the 1920s. Despite a lot of talk about values, problems within the GOP, "red state culture," and the slow but vital progress in Iraq, the...
The Policy Partnership
Presidential Elections and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2004
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
This volume presents five studies on the relationship between the media and voters. Each examines some aspects of the flow of information to voters during election campaigns and all reflect the assumption that the right to vote must include the right of access and sufficient information to make an...
An Uncivil War
Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
In An Uncivil War, the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent sounds an urgent alarm about the deeper roots of our democratic backsliding—and how we can begin to turn things around between now and 2020.
American democracy is facing a crisis as fraught as we’ve seen in decades. Donald Trump’s...
Politicking and Emergent Media
US Presidential Elections of the 1890s
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Presidential campaigns of the twenty-first century were not the first to mobilize an array of new media forms in efforts to gain electoral victory. In Politicking and Emergent Media, distinguished historian Charles Musser looks at four US presidential campaigns during the long 1890s (1888–1900)...
by Robert Dudley; Eric Shiraev
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
The 2000 U.S. presidential election was not the first in American history that was exceptionally close or that produced highly disputed results. In 1801 Thomas Jefferson became president after an electoral gridlock, but only after Congress voted three dozen times to select the president. Charles Hughes...
Democracy Undone
Unequal Representation, the the Threat to our Election System, and the Impending Demise of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
A short history of the brutal beating our democratic process has taken in the 21st century, with special focus on the theft of two out of three past elections, the rise of the corporate state and the emergence of money as the ultimate power player. Could this election cycle make it three out of four...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The 2006 elections constitute a major redrawing of the political map in Israel due to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s exit from the Likud party and his creation of a new centre party, Kadima. Following Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, Sharon formed Kadima taking many former Likud MKs, and...
by Seymour Lipset
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
"The election of 1980 did more than break the Democrats' control of the White House and Congress. It also shattered some important assumptions about the character of our voting coalitions and the condition of our political parties. It opened some possibilities for the remainder of the century...
Media Role in African Changing Electoral Process
A Political Communication Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Media Role in African Changing Electoral Process analyzes the effect of mass media on African elections. Featuring contributions by leading African scholars and professionals, this book covers a wide array of social science disciplines, political discourses, and political communication issues. In...
Doubletalk
The Language, Code, and Jargon of a Presidential Election
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The only time most Americans care anything about politics is during the presidential election cycle. This quadrennial flood of posturing and blame, once confined to the July conventions and the November election, has spread like a greasy lake across the landscape and calendar of our politics. From...