Elections category: 1210 books
by Ralph Harris, Arthur Seldon, Christopher Snowdon
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This new version of ‘Advertising in a Free Society’ is valuable reminder of the fundamental role advertising plays in society. Although the criticisms aimed towards it, which Ralph Harris and Arthur Seldon aimed to dispel over half a century ago, continue to gain support, policy makers and campaigners...
Political Polling in the Digital Age
The Challenge of Measuring and Understanding Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
The 2008 presidential election provided a "perfect storm" for pollsters. A significant portion of the population had exchanged their landlines for cellphones, which made them harder to survey. Additionally, a potential Bradley effect -- in which white voters misrepresent their intentions...
Winning Power
Canadian Campaigning in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Campaigns are central to the practice of modern democracy and integral to political participation in the twenty-first century. In Winning Power, Tom Flanagan draws on decades of experience teaching political science and managing political campaigns to inform readers about what goes on behind the scenes....
It Still Takes A Candidate
Why Women Don’t Run for Office
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
It Still Takes A Candidate serves as the only systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition. Based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Panel Study, a national survey conducted of almost 3,800 'potential candidates' in 2001 and a second survey...
Follow the Leader?
How Voters Respond to Politicians' Policies and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
In a democracy, we generally assume that voters know the policies they prefer and elect like-minded officials who are responsible for carrying them out. We also assume that voters consider candidates' competence, honesty, and other performance-related traits. But does this actually happen? Do voters...
by Rebekah L. Herrick
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
An enduring question for most nations has been how to best represent their citizens and their needs. This is a complex issue as there is no universally accepted definition of good representation. Representation and Institutional Design addresses the issues of institutions and representation by examining...
Mosh the Polls
Youth Voters, Popular Culture, and Democratic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
This timely, highly readable edited collection undertakes an interdisciplinary analysis of the innovative ways in which both the political process and the entertainment industry appeal to voters under the age of 30 and how the intended audience receives these endeavors. Along the way, contributors...
by John Ince
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Written by a former Fortune reporter and one of Mitt Romney's classmates at Harvard Business School, this book gives an insider's view of the Republican candidate for President that few people know or understand. Written with a light touch, but serious bite, the author details the journey...
by Arthur Lieber
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
In 2010 Arthur Lieber ran for Congress in Missouri's 2nd Congressional District when no other Democrat would. Operating on a budget considered minuscule by today's standards and refusing donations he ran as an unashamed progressive Democrat in a predominantly Republican district. In Unlikely...
Value Vote Ballot
the Barnes Theory of Voting
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Human society is constantly evolving, but is democracy keeping pace?
Most citizens of today’s democracies spend 12 years in public schools. Humanity is more educated now than at any time in history. Yet we still vote as though most of our citizens are illiterate.
The present ballot...
The 2012 Presidential Campaign
A Communication Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Presidential campaigns are our national conversations – the widespread and complex communication of issues, images, social reality, and personas. Political communication specialists break down the 2012 presidential campaign and go beyond the quantitative facts, electoral counts, and poll results...
The Political Fix
Changing the Game of American Democracy, from the Grassroots to the White House
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Top political insider Douglas E. Schoen dissects the failures of modern politics and unveils the practical-minded, citizen-powered solutions that will revive American democracy
One of America's foremost political pollsters, Douglas E. Schoen, shows how the electoral system can be mended so...
Against the Run of Play
How an Incumbent President Was Defeated in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Against the Run of Play takes an intense look at Nigerian politics at a time when an entrenched political party was defeated in a presidential election after 16 unbroken years in power. This book offers the reader a narrative explanation and an unusual insight into the major human and institutional factors...
El infierno electoral
El fraude del Estado de México y las próximas elecciones de 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 26, 2018
En los comicios de 2017 en el Estado de México se perpetraron las mayores transas imaginables.
Fue un fraude sistémico más allá de nuestra idea de elección de Estado. Y esta compleja operación es un adelanto de lo que todo el país padecerá en 2018.
No es una simple hipótesis:...