Elections category: 1210 books
by Tim Carr, Iain Dale, Robert Waller
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Following Theresa May's shock general election announcement, the UK political landscape looks set to change dramatically. Will predictions of a Tory landslide come to pass, or will the pollsters be surprised again? Whatever the result, the latest edition of the bestselling Politicos Guide to the New...
Can Labour Win?
The Hard Road to Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
After its disastrous defeat in 2015, Labour is at grave risk of throwing away the 2020 general election. The party has to understand why it suffered such a devastating defeat and learn crucial lessons if it is to recover. The reasons appear obvious enough: the British public did not believe that Ed...
Well, You Did Ask…
Why the UK voted to leave the EU
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The UK's vote to leave the European Union shocked the world - not to mention many people in Britain. What it revealed about our country is at least as significant for the future of politics as Brexit itself.
Drawing on more than two years of intensive research by Lord Ashcroft Polls, Well,...
Voters' Veto
The 2002 Election in New Zealand and the Consolidation of Minority Government
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Tracking New Zealand's transition from the first-past-the-postelectoral system, as used in Britain, to the mixed-member-proportional system, as used in Germany, this analysis examines New Zealand's pivotal 2002 election through a campaign study, a postelection study, and a midelection panel. Based...
We’re Going to Run This City
Winnipeg's Political Left after the General Strike
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Stefan Epp-Koop’s "We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left After the General Strike" explores the dynamic political movement that came out of the largest labour protest in Canadian history and the ramifications for Winnipeg throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Few have studied...
by Jay Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
This book is for candidates who are running for office; those who would like to know how to run for office, and how to win an election. Included are lessons from the 2016 election about communicating a message to voters; the art of a compelling slogan; mistakes to avoid; prosecuting a campaign strategy....
The Politics of Cultural Differences
Social Change and Voter Mobilization Strategies in the Post-New Deal Period
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
How did Republicans manage to hold the White House through much of the past half century even as the Democratic Party held the hearts of most American voters? The authors of this groundbreaking study argue that they did so by doing what Democrats have also excelled at: triggering psychological mechanisms...
by Charley Wells
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Hanging chads. Butterfly ballots. Unruly demonstrations across the country. A state capital occupied by the national press corps. For thirty-six excruciating days in late 2000, a nation held its breath while seven men held in their hands the fate of the presidential election in Florida. The events...
by Professor Stephen Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
This book sets out to unearth the hidden genealogies of democracy, and particularly its most widely recognized, commonly discussed and deeply symbolic act, voting. By exploring the gaps between voting and recognition, being counted and feeling counted, having a vote and having a voice and the languor...
Party Politics in Taiwan
Party Change and the Democratic Evolution of Taiwan, 1991-2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
In 1991 Taiwan held its first fully democratic election. This first single volume of party politics in Taiwan analyzes the evolution of party competition in the country, looking at how Taiwan’s parties have adjusted to their new multi-party election environment. It features key chapters on:
the...
Hong Kong in the Shadow of China
Living with the Leviathan
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A close-up look at the struggle for democracy in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong in the Shadow of China is a reflection on the recent political turmoil in Hong Kong during which the Chinese government insisted on gradual movement toward electoral democracy and hundreds of thousands of protesters occupied...
Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context
Taiwan, Japan, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Reformers have promoted mixed-member electoral systems as the “best of both worlds.” In this volume, internationally recognized political scientists evaluate the ways in which the introduction of a mixed-member electoral system affects the configuration of political parties. The contributors examine...
Voters' Vengeance
1990 Election in New Zealand and the Fate of the Fourth Labour Government
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The 1990 election in New Zealand produced the biggest landslide in 50 years, and Voters' Vengeance uses comprehensive survey research to explore why New Zealand voters reacted in this way. The answers to over 2000 questionnaires allow the sophisticated analysis of voter behavior. The authors discuss...
Towards Consensus?
The 1993 Election and Referendum in NZ
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Based on a nationwide survey of voters, this is a study of the historic 1993 New Zealand general election and referendum. It seeks to explain why New Zealanders made the choices they did - an extremely narrow majority for the National Party and a decision to shift to MMP representation.