Elections category: 1210 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Capturing Campaign Effects is the definitive study to date of the influence of campaigns on political culture. Comprising a broad exploration of campaign factors (debates, news coverage, advertising, and polls) and their effects (priming, learning, and persuasion), as well as an impressive survey...
Voting with Dollars
A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this provocative book, two leading law professors challenge the existing campaign reform agenda and present a new initiative that avoids the mistakes of the past.Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres build on the example of the secret ballot and propose a system of secret donation booths” for campaign...
The 2012 Presidential Election
Forecasts, Outcomes, and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Though many analyses of the 2012 presidential election have emerged, none can match this collection's depth, diversity, or ability to critically and soundly argue where American politics will go from this point forward. This volume includes some of the most recognized scholars in the field and innovative...
Two Presidents Are Better Than One
The Case for a Bipartisan Executive Branch
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
“Many Americans are unsatisfied with politics. Simultaneously, we are hesitant to question the basic soundness of our constitutional system. In this refreshingly provocative book, David Orentlicher explains why it is due time for us to reconsider dominant ideas about the presidency, now arguably...
The Men and the Moment
The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
The presidential election of 1968 forever changed American politics. In this character-driven narrative history, Aram Goudsouzian portrays the key transformations that played out over that dramatic year. It was the last "Old Politics" campaign, where political machines and party bosses determined...
A Citizen's Guide to Presidential Nominations
The Competition for Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Presidential nominations in the United States can sometimes seem like a media circus, over-hyped and overly speculative. Even informed citizens might be tempted to tune them out. Yet understanding the process, one distinct to American politics, is crucial for civic participation. If presidential elections...
The Increasingly United States
How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
In a campaign for state or local office these days, you’re as likely today to hear accusations that an opponent advanced Obamacare or supported Donald Trump as you are to hear about issues affecting the state or local community. This is because American political behavior has become substantially...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
According to current scholarship, the Caucasian population of the United States is expected to be a minority by 2042. As the white majority disappears and politics shift with the changing tide, it is important to understand the voting behaviors of the significant minority voting blocs in the United...
You Shook Me All Campaign Long
Music in the 2016 Presidential Election and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Music has long played a role in American presidential campaigns as a mode of both expressing candidates’ messages and criticizing the opposition. The relevance of music in the 2016 campaign for the White House took various forms in a range of American media: a significant amount of popular music...
by Robert G Boatright
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
In the early 2000s, the United States and Canada implemented new campaign finance laws restricting the ability of interest groups to make political contributions and to engage in political advertising. Whereas both nations' legislative reforms sought to reduce the role of interest groups in campaigns,...
Bushmanders and Bullwinkles
How Politicians Manipulate Electronic Maps and Census Data to Win Elections
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
For years Mark Monmonier, "a prose stylist of no mean ability or charm" according to the Washington Post, has delighted readers with his insightful understanding of cartography as an art and technology that is both deceptive and revealing. Now he turns his focus to the story of political...
by Richard K. Scher
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
A Choice Highly Recommended Title—January 2017
This book is an interpretive analysis of political campaigns in America: instead of focusing on how campaigns are designed and run, it investigates the role campaigns play in our American politics, and the close symbiosis between campaigns and...
by Lyn Ragsdale, Jerrold G. Rusk
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
A diverse body of research exists to explain why eligible voters don't go to the polls on election day. Theories span from the psychological (nonvoters have limited emotional engagement with politics and therefore lack motivation), to the social (politics is inherently social and nonvoters have limited...
Coping with Complexity
How Voters Adapt to Unstable Parties
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
When parties undergo abrupt organisational changes between elections – such as when they fuse, split, join or abandon party lists – they alter profoundly the organisation and supply of electoral information to voters. The alternatives on the ballot are no longer fixed but need to be actively sought...