Elections category: 1210 books
Fit for the Presidency?
Winners, Losers, What-Ifs, and Also-Rans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Every four years Americans embark on the ultimate carnival, the Super Bowl of democracy: a presidential election campaign filled with endless speeches, debates, handshakes, and passion.
But what about the candidates themselves?
In Fit for the Presidency? Seymour Morris Jr. applies an executive...
The 2015 Canadian Federal Election Debate on Foreign Policy
The Munk Debates
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau squared off on September 28, 2015, in Toronto, for the first-ever federal election debate on Canada’s foreign policy.
Too often, foreign policy issues have been afterthoughts in federal election campaigns....
Making a Difference
A Comparative View of the Role of the Internet in Election Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
This book is a cross-national analysis of the role of the internet in national electoral campaigns. It covers an array of electoral and party systems throughout the globe from parliamentary to presidential, party-based to candidate-oriented, multi-party to two-party, and stable party system to dynamic...
The Little Book of Campaign Etiquette
For Everyone with a Stake in Politicians and Journalists
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Revised and updated just in time for the 2000 campaign, this shrewd and amusing series of observations provides a political etiquette for campaign behavior on the part of both politicians and journalists. Features illustrations by America's foremost political cartoonists, including Herblock, Paul...
Political Attitudes
Computational and Simulation Modelling
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Political Science has traditionally employed empirical research and analytical resources to understand, explain and predict political phenomena. One of the long-standing criticisms against empirical modeling targets the static perspective provided by the model-invariant paradigm. In political science...
Women in Presidential Cabinets
Power Players or Abundant Tokens?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Though parity is still rare, presidential cabinets contain more women than ever before. Who are these women and what types of political capital resources do they bring to the administration? Are they new types of political players or very much like the men who have traditionally run the government?...
by EJ Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
The citizens of the United States have forgotten their country’s roots and the US news media has done little to educate listeners. Americans have a right to be angry. People are worried about the US economic future, terrorism, and the planet. As others talk about our founding fathers being the basis...
We Will Be Heard
Women's Struggles for Political Power in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
In We Will Be Heard, noted political scientist Jo Freeman chronicles the struggles of women in the United States for political power. Most of their stories are little-known, but Freeman's compelling portrait of women working for change reminds us that women have never been silent in the political...
Beyond Federation
Options to renew Australia’s 1901 Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Australia has been a federation for more than a hundred years, and an independent country for more than seventy. But its system of government is still based on political compromises thrashed out in the late nineteenth century. In particular, the division of power between national and state governments...
What Donald Trump Supporters Need to Know
But Are Too Infatuated to Figure Out
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book takes a look at who Donald Trump really is. Do such words as arrogant, dishonest, greedy, hypocritical, ignorant, racist, and dangerous come to mind? The book explores our politics and the state of our government and our society, including the anger and hate that have been building and seem...
Robert F. Kennedy
And the 1968 Indiana Primary
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2008
This account of a dramatic moment, and a classic speech, is “a must-read for anyone interested in presidential politics” (Indiana Magazine of History).
On April 4, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy Jr., arrived in Indiana to campaign for the state’s Democratic presidential primary....
A Nation Changed
The SNP and Scotland Ten Years On
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
A Nation Changed? Provides the first detailed and wide-ranging analysis of the SNP in office. It looks at how Scotland has changed and not changed during that time, and the challenges that lie ahead. The book examines the SNP's record, its role as a government and as a party, detailed policy issues...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The study of voting behaviour remains a vibrant sub-discipline of political science. The Handbook of Electoral Behaviour is an authoritative and wide ranging survey of this dynamic field, drawing together a team of the world's leading scholars to provide a state-of-the-art review that sets the agenda...
Political Animals
How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Can a football game affect the outcome of an election? What about shark attacks? Or a drought? In a rational world the answer, of course, would be no. But as bestselling historian Rick Shenkman shows in Political Animals, our world is anything but rational. This isn't because we aren't smart. Instead,...