Elections category: 1210 books
1 Euro Before You Vote
Political Pamphlet
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
More than a legal obligation, voting is our right as citizens and defines our democracies.The lies or intellectual laziness of our economists, administrations, and judicial systems creates a façade of legality, which could be considered fraudulent: replacing the power of a Monarchy by that of a Government...
The International Social Survey Programme 1984-2009
Charting the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
The social sciences rely more on the comparative method than on experimental data mainly because the latter is difficult to acquire amongst human populations. The International Social Survey Programme has played a pioneering role in creating and sustaining methodologically-sophisticated mass attitude...
The Persistence of the Color Line
Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Timely—as the 2012 presidential election nears—and controversial, here is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial politics and the Obama presidency.
Renowned for his cool reason vis-à-vis the pitfalls and clichés of racial discourse, Randall Kennedy—Harvard...
Why Vote Labour 2015
The Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Will the 2015 general election herald the return of a Labour-dominated government? Could another coalition be on the cards with a rival party, or will the Labour Party be doomed to remain in opposition for another term? In this concise and authoritative guide, Dan Jarvis MP brings together a cast...
The End of Authority
How a Loss of Legitimacy and Broken Trust Are Endangering Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Around the world, citizens have lost faith in their political and economic institutions—leading to unprecedented levels of political instability and economic volatility. From Moscow to Brussels, from Washington to Cairo, the failure of democracies and autocracies to manage the fiscal and political...
It's The Economy, Stupid
Economics for Voters
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Pollsters are constantly worrying about our perceptions of politicians. What do their other halves look like? Who looks best when eating a bacon sandwich? Should they even be eating bacon sandwiches in the first place? For the voter, though, it all comes down to one thing: the economy. While good...
Obama at the Crossroads
Politics, Markets, and the Battle for America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
The 2010 election serves as a bookend to one of the remarkable political periods in recent U.S. history. Amidst a profound economic crisis, Americans elected an African American to the presidency and massive Democratic majorities to Congress. Beginning in 2009, the President and Congress put forward...
The Great Gap
Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
The relationship between socioeconomic inequality and democratic politics has been one of the central questions in the social sciences from Aristotle on. Recent waves of democratization, combined with deepened global inequalities, have made understanding this relationship ever more crucial. In The...
by Edwin T. McPeak
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
*The New Founding Fathers of a "Network" Solution,*is a book in which the author discusses the current controversial affairs that pertain to today's government and its leaders, and introduces a viable solution to correct what many believe to be inadequacies possesed by these same leaders....
by ASI PRINCE DATEME
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Politics is not a bad profession…if you succeed, there are many rewards…if you disgrace yourself there are burdens to bear. Today’s headlines and news stories are full of reports about politicians in both low and high offices. The reason is simple.
Those in politics constitute the leadership...
Political Campaign Communication
Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The eighth edition of Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices provides a clear understanding of the strategic decisions made and tactical communication practices used in contemporary political campaigns.
The authors:
incorporate examples from all levels—local, statewide,...
by Jared H. Beck, Esq.
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
For the first time, the definitive answer to the relative disappearance of Bernie Sanders and his political revolution in our new Trumpocracy.
One year into Donald Trump’s presidency, the US 2016 presidential election is still being fought by both parties. As the case of Russian hacking and...
Engagement Organizing
The Old Art and New Science of Winning Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
At any given moment, there are hundreds of campaigns under way that seek to persuade citizens or decision makers to think, act, or vote in a certain way. But what separates campaigns that win from those that don’t?
This book shows how to combine old-school people power with new digital tools...
Political Campaign Communication
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical,...