Elections category: 1210 books
The Right Problems
What the President, Congress, and Every Candidate Should Be Working On
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
The problems that need attention in the United States aren't new, nor are their solutions. Yet the political establishment neither understands these problems nor desires to address them. Only informed and courageous leadership can change that. In The Right Problems, former Republican...
The Bush Survival Bible
250 Ways to Make It Through the Next Four Years Without Misunderestimating the D angers Ahead, and Other Subliminable Strategeries
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Here is the reality: Bush won; Kerry lost.
Here is your reaction: AA#RGH*HG@GHW&WGRWW!!?!
Here is your salvation: The Bush Survival Bible
Although many of you may try, you can’t really do anything about the election results. But you can do something about your postelection stress disorder. Here...
Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?
Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
On the afternoon of election day 2004, the world was abuzz with the news: exit polls indicated that John Kerry would decisively win the election and become the next president of the United States. That proved not to be the case.
According to the official count—the number of votes tallied, not necessarily...
How Congress Evolves
Social Bases of Institutional Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2003
From the end of the New Deal until quite recently, the U.S. House of Representatives was dominated by a conservative coalition that thwarted the Democratic majority and prevented the enactment of measures proposed by a succession of liberal Presidents. Today Presidents aren't necessarily liberal and...
Mr. Democrat
Jim Farley, the New Deal and the Making of Modern American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Mr. Democrat tells the story of Jim Farley, Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign manager. As party boss, Farley experienced unprecedented success in the New Deal years. And like his modern counterpart Karl Rove, Farley enjoyed unparalleled access and power. Unlike Rove, however, Farley was instrumental...
Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds
LBJ, Barry Goldwater, and the Ad That Changed American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
The grainy black-and-white television ad shows a young girl in a flower-filled meadow, holding a daisy and plucking its petals, which she counts one by one. As the camera slowly zooms in on her eye, a man's solemn countdown replaces hers. At zero the little girl's eye is engulfed by an atomic mushroom...
Democracy for Hire
A History of American Political Consulting
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Though they work largely out of the public eye, political consultants-"image merchants" and "kingmakers" to candidates-play a crucial role in shaping campaigns. They persuaded Barry Goldwater to run for president, groomed former actor Ronald Reagan for the California governorship,...
Rise, Decline and Renewal
The Democratic Party in Maine
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Rise, Decline and Renewal tells the remarkable story of the Maine Democratic Party – how it suddenly rose from irrelevance in 1954 with the election of Governor Ed Muskie, successfully challenged the ruling Republican Party over the next two decades, and initiated a creative period of wide-ranging...
Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Does EU Membership Matter?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
What impact has EU membership had on party politics in Central and Eastern Europe? Although there is an emerging body of literature on the Europeanization of political parties, most of these accounts focus exclusively on Western Europe. Drawing on a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches...
Lines in the Sand
Congressional Redistricting in Texas and the Downfall of Tom DeLay
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The events of 2003 in Texas were important to the political history of this country. Congressman Tom DeLay led a Republican effort to gerrymander the state's thirty-two congressional districts to defeat all ten of the Anglo Democratic incumbents and to elect more Republicans; Democratic state lawmakers...
by Tobias Weidel
Language: German
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Der Autor Heiko Schrang hat durch seine kontroversen Aussagen große Aufmerksamkeit erregt.
Er hat die Menschen bei der Bundestagswahl 2017 dazu aufgerufen, nicht wählen zu gehen, weil man sowieso nichts zu entscheiden hat.
Was ist von derartigen Theorien zu halten?
Haben die Wähler wirklich keinen Einfluss auf den politischen Kurs?
Oder liegt Heiko Schrang falsch?
by David Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
After leaving office in 2007, Bush remained active on a number of political issues. He has been an outspoken supporter of the Common Core Standards, a national educational initiative, and of immigration reform. In December 2014, Bush showed his interest in possibly returning to elected office. He posted...
The Unheavenly Chorus
Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Politically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens seem woefully underrepresented in our political...
The Big Blue Machine
How Tory Campaign Backrooms Changed Canadian Politics Forever
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015
An inside account of the Progressive Conservative’s campaign organization.
The Progressive Conservative Party’s “big blue machine” pioneered electoral techniques of centralized control, communications, campaign advertising, polling, policy-presentation, and fund-raising. Inspired by...