Elections category: 1210 books
Counting the Votes: A New Way to Analyze America's Presidential Elections
A New Way to Analyze America's Presidential Elections
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Counting the Votes: A New Way to Analyze America's Presidential Elections isn't your typical history book about presidential elections. Nor is it like most statistical analyses of election results. What this unusual book does offer is an array of innovative statistics—campaign score (CS), potential...
by Professor Elizabeth A. Theiss-Morse, Michael W. Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
"What do the 2018 midterm elections mean?" The 2018 Congressional Elections supplement provides the answers, drawing on the most recent National Election Study surveys to offer a close analysis of the key issues and races, including:
the outcome of the battle for control;
the role of independents...
Golden Rule
The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
"To discover who rules, follow the gold." This is the argument of Golden Rule, a provocative, pungent history of modern American politics. Although the role big money plays in defining political outcomes has long been obvious to ordinary Americans, most pundits and scholars have virtually...
by Amanda Sives
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Since the achievement of adult suffrage in 1944, Jamaican democracy has remained resilient. Fifteen general elections have been held; the results have been accepted by the contending parties and the democratic process has survived. Within the wider Latin American and Caribbean region, Jamaica has...
Presidential Elections
Strategies and Structures of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Brimming with data and examples from the 2008 and 2012 elections, and laced with previews of 2016, the fourteenth edition of this popular text offers a complete overview of the presidential election process from the earliest straw polls and fundraisers to final voter turnout and exit interviews. The...
Ambition, Competition, and Electoral Reform
The Politics of Congressional Elections Across Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
In Ambition, Competition, and Electoral Reform, Jamie L. Carson and Jason M. Roberts present an original study of U.S. congressional elections and electoral institutions for 1872-1944 from a contemporary political science perspective. Using data on late nineteenth and early twentieth century congressional...
by Frances Millard
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This book is a political history of democratic elections in Poland from the first fully competitive parliamentary elections in 1991 to the unexpected, most recent election in 2007. Until now, there has been no equivalent study covering similar developments in this, or any other, post-communist country;...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Bringing together a host of distinguished scholars, Michael Nelson's The Elections of 2016 reliably delivers a nuanced analysis of yet another momentous cycle of political contests. No other single volume can expose your students to the depth of analysis and expertise in this title. Whether discussing...
My Wonderful World of Elections
An Election Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
This book is an election autobiography which aims to narrate my experience of more than thirty years in the electoral field. My hands-on encounter with election colleagues in various aspects of electoral work will be of interest to democratic enthusiasts and stakeholders alike in many parts of the...
by F. Leslie Seidle
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
The two studies in Interest Groups and Elections in Canada explore the nature and influence of special interest groups. They consider different aspects of the question, "In the context of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, how can the laws intended to secure a fair electoral process...
The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma
Why Election Observation Became an International Norm
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Why did election monitoring become an international norm? Why do pseudo-democrats—undemocratic leaders who present themselves as democratic—invite international observers, even when they are likely to be caught manipulating elections? Is election observation an effective tool of democracy promotion,...
Subsidizing Democracy
How Public Funding Changes Elections and How It Can Work in the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the wake of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), the case that allowed corporate and union spending in elections, many Americans despaired over the corrosive influence that private and often anonymous money can have on political platforms, campaigns, and outcomes at the federal...
Pivotal Tuesdays
Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Serious and silly, unifying and polarizing, presidential elections have become events that Americans love and hate. Today's elections cost billions of dollars and consume the nation's attention for months, filling television airwaves and online media with endless advertising and political punditry,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Money and politics in an election that broke the mold
Beginning with the 1960 election, readers could turn to one book for an authoritative and comprehensive examination of campaign finance at the federal level. Now, the latest in this respected series, Financing the 2016 Election, explores...