Elections category: 1210 books
Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State
Why Americans Vote the Way They Do - Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide has become symbolic of a culture war that thrives on stereotypes--pickup-driving red-state Republicans who vote based on...
by Stephen Singular
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
***"This is an important book with new, deep reporting. It is chock-full of information, insights, and analysis that will intrigue both current readers and future historians." ***—Dan Rather, 24-year anchor of CBS Evening News and former White House correspondent
In Stolen Future,...
Where Women Run
Gender and Party in the American States
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Why don’t more women run for office? Why are certain states more likely to have female candidates and representatives? Would strengthening political parties narrow the national gender gap? Where Women Run addresses these important questions through a rare and incisive look at how candidates are...
Winning While Losing
Civil Rights, The Conservative Movement and the Presidency from Nixon to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
"Explor[es] the paradoxical nature of racial politics in the post–civil rights period. . . . Does us the service of detailing how different presidential administrations handled civil rights, complicating our understanding of the major themes that defined the era."--American Historical...
by Richard Labunski
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
Today we hold the Constitution in such high regard that we can hardly imagine how hotly contested was its adoption. In fact, many of the thirteen states saw fierce debate over the document, and ratification was by no means certain. Virginia, the largest and most influential state, approved the Constitution...
Unequal and Unrepresented
Political Inequality and the People's Voice in the New Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
How American political participation is increasingly being shaped by citizens who wield more resources
The Declaration of Independence proclaims equality as a foundational American value. However, Unequal and Unrepresented finds that political voice in America is not only unequal but also unrepresentative....
He Runs, She Runs
Why Gender Stereotypes Do Not Harm Women Candidates
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
While there are far more women in public office today than in previous eras, women are still vastly underrepresented in this area relative to men. Conventional wisdom suggests that a key reason is because female candidates start out at a disadvantage with the public, compared to male candidates, and...
Talk Show Campaigns
Presidential Candidates on Daytime and Late Night Television
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Over the past twenty years, presidential candidates have developed an entertainment talk show strategy in which they routinely chat with the likes of Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman, and Jon Stewart. In fact, between 1992 and 2012, there have been more than 200 candidate interviews on daytime and...
The Most Fundamental Right
Contrasting Perspectives on the Voting Rights Act
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Passed in 1965 during the height of the Civil Rights movement, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) changed the face of the American electorate, dramatically increasing minority voting, especially in the South. While portions of the Act are permanent, certain provisions were set to expire in 2007. Reauthorization...
by Kevin D. Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Donald Trump, who rocketed to the top of the polls in the early GOP primary race, is an unlikely Republican front-runner: a longtime supporter of Democratic politicians with a history of taking views opposed to those of mainstream conservatives. A household name for his reality-television show and his...
How to Choose a Leader
Machiavelli's Advice to Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
One of the greatest political advisers of all time, Niccolò Machiavelli thought long and hard about how citizens could identify great leaders—ones capable of defending and enhancing the liberty, honor, and prosperity of their countries. Drawing on the full range of the Florentine's writings, acclaimed...
Latinos and the Voting Rights Act
The Search for Racial Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
This volume explores the role race and racism played in the Texas redistricting process and the creation and passage of the state’s Voter Identification Law in 2011. The author puts forth research techniques designed to uncover racism and racist intentions even in the face of denials by the public...
The Populist Radical Right
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The populist radical right is one of the most studied political phenomena in the social sciences, counting hundreds of books and thousands of articles. This is the first reader to bring together the most seminal articles and book chapters on the contemporary populist radical right in western democracies....
by Jon H. Pammett, Christopher Dornan
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016
Written by the foremost authorities, The Canadian Federal Election of 2015 provides a complete investigation of the election.
A comprehensive analysis of the campaigns and the election outcome, this collection of essays examines the strategies, successes,...