Elections category: 1210 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Campaigns on the Cutting Edge evaluates the current trends of today’s campaigns and assesses the innovative changes these well-tuned organizations are making on the presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial levels. As technology now allows candidates to announce their candidacies online,...
The Vanishing Voter
Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
From the award-winning author of Out of Order—named the best political science book of the last decade by the American Political Science Association—comes this landmark book about why Americans don’t vote.
Based on more than 80,000 interviews, The Vanishing Voterinvestigates why—despite...
Trumped
The 2016 Election That Broke All the Rules
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In 2016, Donald Trump broke almost all the rules of politics to win the Republican nomination and, even more improbably, to edge out heavily favored Hillary Clinton in one of the great upsets in presidential campaign history. In Trumped: The 2016 Election That Broke All the Rules, Larry Sabato, Kyle...
Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems
Learning to Lose
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
This is a path-breaking study by leading scholars of comparative politics examining the internal transformations of dominant parties in both authoritarian and democratic settings. The principle question examined in this book is what happens to dominant political parties when they lose or face the...
Unfree Speech
The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
At a time when campaign finance reform is widely viewed as synonymous with cleaning up Washington and promoting political equality, Bradley Smith, a nationally recognized expert on campaign finance reform, argues that all restriction on campaign giving should be eliminated. In Unfree Speech, he presents...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
This book explores how intra-party politics affects government formation and termination in parliamentary systems, where the norm is the formation of coalition governments.
The authors look beyond party cohesion and discipline in parliamentary democracies to take a broader view, assuming a...
Why aren't they there?
The Political Representation of Women, Ethnic Groups and Issue Positions in Legislatures
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Why Aren't They There? is a comprehensive study of political representation in a cross-national format. It examines the representation of women, ethnic groups, and policy positions in a cross-country comparison. The book includes an analysis of the representation of women over time, and presents...
Hopelessly Divided
The New Crisis in American Politics and What it Means for 2012 and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Just in time for the 2012 election, Douglas E. Schoen, one of America’s preeminent political pundits, analyzes the growing chasm between the political class—politicians, lobbyists, fundraisers, consultants—and the American Mainstream, frustrated with government’s inability to address the major...
Packaging The Presidency
A History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 1996
Packaging the Presidency, Third Edition, is now completely updated to offer the only comprehensive study of the history and effects of political advertising in the United States. Noted political critic Kathleen Hall Jamieson traces the development of presidential campaigning from early political songs...
Reorganizing Popular Politics
Participation and the New Interest Regime in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
A historic shift has occurred in the organizational structures through which the lower classes in Latin America express voice and find political representation. With the political and economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, networks of community-based associations and nongovernmental organizations...
by Tatiana Clouthier
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 3, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 3, 2019
Un libro que consigna, en primera persona, lo que Tatiana Clouthier vio, vivió y creó en la campaña presidencial 2018 de Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
No me canso de agradecer a la vida el haberme puesto ante este reto histórico: ser una más para cambiar a México por la vía pacífica...
El naufragio
La deconstrucción del sueño independentista
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Todo empezó en 2012, cuando Artur Mas regresó de la Moncloa con la negativa de Mariano Rajoy a abordar un pacto fiscal para Cataluña. Aquel presidente de la Generalitat designado a dedo por Jordi Pujol emprendió entonces una carrera imparable abrazado al independentismo en el que nunca había...
Excelentísima activista
Crónica algo sentimental de la Barcelona de Ada Colau
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 21, 2016
He aquí la crónica del primer año en el poder de Ada Colau, la primera alcaldesa de Barcelona. Sus orígenes, su programa electoral y su victoria causaron sensación, sorpresa y controversia. Entre la ilusión de sus partidarios y los recelos y críticas de sus adversarios, la alcaldesa que salió...
En el huracán catalán
Una mirada privilegiada al laberinto del procés
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A lo largo del convulso otoño político de 2017, los corresponsales en España han gozado de una privilegiada mirada sobre los acontecimientos que se produjeron antes, durante y después del referéndum catalán del 1 de octubre. En primer lugar, porque el propio
Ejecutivo catalán les dio un protagonismo...