Elections category: 1210 books
Breakthrough
The Making of America's First Woman President
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
A “well-reasoned and researched” look at why Americans have never elected a woman president, what will make it possible, and why it matters (Booklist).
From Hollywood to the halls of Congress, a lively conversation about women’s leadership, equal pay, and family-work balance is underway....
by Prof. Ravi Meena
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
What began with the trashing and pulping of a book on gods and renewed litigation against an Indologist has now taken a more distinct shape in terms of the approach to education itself, most of which seems to project an obscurantist and insular India even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is busy forging...
by Donna Carol Voss
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Have you ever thought, How the heck am I going to decide on a presidential candidate?In Hail to the Chief!, Donna Carol Voss lays out the ten most important questions to ask any candidate who wants to lead our great country. She differentiates those areas a president can affect—like fiscal responsibility...
Campaign 2012
Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Campaign 2012: Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy is an indispensable guide to the questions facing White House hopefuls in 2012, as well as the challenges awaiting the winner. It presents authoritative analyses of a dozen key policy issues currently testing the nation:
-domestic...
by Roy M Neel, Tucker D Neel
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
THE ELECTORS opens with a bang, literally, and a Presidential election is turned upside down.
Every four years Americans go to the polls to elect a president- or at least they think they do. In fact, they elect Electors, who gather five weeks later to cast their votes for the candidate of the...
by D.S. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Why did I vote for President Barack Hussein Obama II? It wasnt because he knew how to read well and sounded eloquent on the stage, though this was a very proud change from the last eight years. It wasnt because he had written two books, though this too was something to be proud of, his words in Audacity...
Captured
The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
A leading member of the Senate Judiciary Committee “spells out, in considerable detail, the extent of corporate influence over a variety of issues” in national politics (The New Yorker)
As a U.S. senator and former federal prosecutor, Sheldon Whitehouse has had a front-row seat for the...
Our Worst Preference
Reforming the Electoral System
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
This work draws mainly from papers and an article written by Politician and Economist Brendan Halligan on Ireland's Single Transferable Vote system (STV), spanning some 30 years. Each chapter examines how the Irish system of Proportional Representation (PR), the Single Transferable Vote, is riddled...
Ibb – Smart but Foolish
The Fall of a Goliath
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
IBB - Smart But Foolish REASONS HE CAN'T BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT chronicles the tenure of one of Africas most dreaded dictators and terrorists, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, a.k.a, IBB. It details the political, social, and economic policies of the former ruler of Africas most populous nation, Nigeria....
Direct Democracy in Canada
The History and Future of Referendums
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1996
Direct Democracy in Canada: The History and Future of Referendums surveys Canada’s century-long record of plebiscites and referendums. J. Patrick Boyer analyzes the effects of the three national referendums and the development of a consensus. This companion volume to The People’s Mandate studies...
Forcing Choice
The Risky Reward of Referendums
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017
What happens when crucial public issues are decided the people themselves?
Canadians answered “Yes” or “No” to prohibiting alcohol, conscripting soldiers, and revamping our constitution. Forcing such crucial choices at the ballot box is high-stakes...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
The Canadian Federal Election of 2008 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election outcome. The chapters are written by leading professors of political science, journalism, and communications. They examine the strategies, successes, and failures of the major political parties...
Citizenship and Democracy
A Case for Proportional Representation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
This book is part of the Towards the New Millennium Series, featuring the works of thoughtful Canadians who are profoundly interested in the future of Canada and the world.
Most democracies do not use Canada’s "first past the post" voting system. To give a party more seats than...
Social Media Politics: Using the Internet to Get Elected
Increasing Website Traffic Series, #6
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
You want to get elected. You’re running for office and you’re going to change the world. Finally…some things in this country will get done. So…what do you do? Filing paperwork and declaring your candidacy is one thing, but getting people to actually vote for you is another. For starters,...