Elections category: 1210 books
After Wallace
The 1986 Contest for Governor and Political Change in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
All Alabama elections are colorful, but the 1986 gubernatorial contest may trump them all for its sheer strangeness. With the retirement of an aging and ill George Wallace, both the issues and candidates contending for the office were able to set the course of Alabama politics for generations to follow....
by Carl W. Dundas
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The family of best electoral practices is growing in most democracies. It can be found in mature and new, as well as in emerging democracies, perhaps more common in the former than in the latter two categories. The goal of best electoral practices is to improve election administration and services...
Fighting for Votes
Parties, the Media, and Voters in an Ontario Election
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Elections are not just about who casts ballots – they reflect the citizens, parties, media, and history of an electorate. Fighting for Votes examines how these factors interacted during a recent Ontario election.
The authors begin by examining the province’s political culture and history....
Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement
Organisation, Communication and Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In 2009 Beppe Grillo, a well-known Italian comedian, established the Five Star Movement with the aim of sending a handful of citizens to municipal councils to act as the watchdog of a professional political class often perceived as corrupt and self-interested. However, in the Italian general elections...
The Blue Wave
The 2018 Midterms and What They Mean for the 2020 Elections
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2019
Early results on election night suggested that Democrats had failed to make significant gains in the 2018 midterms. After all the votes were counted, a blue wave crashed on American electoral politics as Democrats won the House the Representatives and made significant gains at the state and local...
Purging the Republican Party
Tea Party Campaigns and Elections
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
This is the first book that explains the Tea Party’s successful “primary” campaign against Republicans in Name Only (RINOs). Grassroots Tea Party activists adopted this strategy in 2009 shortly after the movement emerged. The first successful campaign occurred in upstate New York where the Tea...
Electoral Dysfunction
A Survival Manual for American Voters
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Imagine a country where the right to vote is not guaranteed by the Constitution, where the candidate with the most votes loses, and where paperwork requirements and bureaucratic bungling disenfranchise millions. You’re living in it. If the consequences weren’t so serious, it would be funny.
An...
The Political Process in Canada
Essays in Honour of R. MacGregor Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
The influence of the late R. MacGregor Dawson on political thought in Canada is still with us and will, indeed, be with us for a long time to come. It is fitting therefore that a book should be conceived in his honour and that this book should reflect the high qualities of analysis and writing that...
Campaigning to the New American Electorate
Advertising to Latino Voters
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
Presuming that a strong relationship exists between one's identity and political behavior, American politicians have long targeted immigrant and ethnic communities based on their shared ethnic or racial identity. But to what extent do political campaign messages impact voters' actual decisions and...
Electing a President
The Markle Commission Research on Campaign '88
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The image of a prison with a revolving door helped George Bush win the presidency in 1988, but did negative advertising damage the electoral process itself? Why did campaign ’88 represent an all-time low in the minds of many voters? These are some of the questions that impel this thought-provoking...
Campaign Finance Complexity
Before Campaigning Retain an Attorney
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
The campaign finance system regulates campaign contributions and behavior with the intent to eliminate corruption or the potential for corruption in elections. With that goal in mind, state legislators created statutes regulating campaign behavior. Each state has wide variation in the complexity of...
Do Political Campaigns Matter?
Campaign Effects in Elections and Referendums
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This book, in bringing together some of the leading international scholars on electoral behaviour and communication studies, provides the first ever stock-take of the state of this sub-discipline. The individual chapters present the most recent studies on campaign effects in North America, Europe...
by Byron E. Shafer
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Social scientists and campaign strategists approach voting behavior from opposite poles. Reconciling these camps through a merger of statistics and election experience, The American Political Landscape presents a full-scale analysis of U.S. electoral politics over the last quarter-century. It explains...
International Election Monitoring, Sovereignty, and the Western Hemisphere
The Emergence of an International Norm
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
This book traces the process by which national elections became international events or, more precisely, what the effects of this process are on state sovereignty.
Contrary to the conventional wisdom in International Relations - to judge by the neglect of this phenomenon in the literature -...