Elections category: 1210 books
Campaign Finance and Political Polarization
When Purists Prevail
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Efforts to reform the U.S. campaign finance system typically focus on the corrupting influence of large contributions. Yet, as Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner argue, reforms aimed at cutting the flow of money into politics have unintentionally favored candidates with extreme ideological...
Choices and Changes
Interest Groups in the Electoral Process
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Choices and Changes is the most comprehensive examination to date of the impact of interest groups on recent American electoral politics. Richly informed, theoretically and empirically, it is the first book to explain the emergence of aggressive interest group electioneering tactics in the mid-1990s—including...
by George Hawley
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
During the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream American political lexicon: “alt-right,” short for “alternative right.” Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech savvy, obsessed...
Primary Mistake
How the Washington Republican Establishment Lost Everythingin 2006 (and Sabotage d My Senatorial Campaign)
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
"When I ran for reelection as the mayor of Cranston, there was an independent candidate running whose only claim to fame was that he wanted to keep a thirty-five-foot inflatable gorilla in his backyard. He was endearingly referred to as Gorilla Man. I never thought to say, 'Why is Gorilla Man running?...
Permanently Blue
How Democrats Can End the Republican Party and Rule the Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
In 2008 Democrats accomplished the political trifecta that had eluded them for more than 40 years: get a progressive president elected and win landslide victories in the House and Senate at the same time. The question is, was that the high point for the party? Or was it just the beginning of a...
A New Engagement?
Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
In searching for answers as to why young people differ vastly from their parents and grandparents when it comes to turning out the vote, A New Engagement challenges the conventional wisdom that today's youth is plagued by a severe case of political apathy. In order to understand the current nature...
by Lucien Young, Leavis Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Lying on a riverbank on a lazy summer’s afternoon – 23rd June 2016, to be precise – Alice spots a flustered-looking white rabbit called Dave calling for a referendum. Following him down a rabbit-hole, she emerges into a strange new land, where up is down, black is white, experts are fools and...
by Martín Moreno
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 23, 2018
El libro que los electores, votantes indecisos y mexicanos en general deben leer de cara a la elección presidencial.
¡Basta de conformismo! La decisión estará en nuestras manos: cambio radical o dictadura perfecta.
Bajo las herramientas periodísticas necesarias para ofrecerle al...
Women and the White House
Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
The president of the United States traditionally serves as a symbol of power, virtue, ability, dominance, popularity, and patriarchy. In recent years, however, the high-profile candidacies of Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann have provoked new interest in gendered popular culture...
The 2016 Presidential Election
The Causes and Consequences of a Political Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
The 2016 Presidential Election: The Causes and Consequences of a Political Earthquake critically analyzes the 2016 presidential election. The chapters in this book identify key factors behind the election of Donald J. Trump, explore the unconventional campaign, analyze the unexpected election result,...
Blackballed
The Black Vote and US Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Blackballedis Darryl Pinckney’s meditation on a century and a half of participation by blacks in US electoral politics. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates the struggle for black voting rights from Reconstruction through...
by Guy Rundle
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
If the past is a foreign country, 2008 is another planet. Who imagined the United States electing its first black president? Who imagined the scale of the global economic crisis? Who imagined Sarah Palin? Guy Rundle was on the ground throughout the momentous election, trailing its unlikely cast of...
by Daniel Defoe
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
Atalantis Major is a thinly veiled allegory...
Election Articles
An Exhaustive Look at Political Articles, Political News, Articles On The Presidential Election, Political Events, And Government Articles
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
In this compelling block-buster guide you will take an irresistible look into the world of election articles, political articles, political news, articles on the presidential election, political events, and government articles.