Elections category: 1210 books

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Choosing Our Choices

Debating the Presidential Nominating Process

by James W. Davis, Robert E. DiClerico
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2000

Probably no feature of the American political system has been subject to more sustained criticism over the last twenty-five years than the process by which we choose our presidents. In Choosing Our Choices, Robert E. DiClerico and James W. Davis debate the question: should we retain the present, primary...
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by Mark D. Brewer, Jeffrey M. Stonecash
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015

Contemporary American politics is highly polarized, and it is increasingly clear that this polarization exists at both the elite and mass levels. What is less clear is the source of this polarization. Social issues are routinely presented by some as the driver of polarization, while others point to...
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Techno Politics in Presidential Campaigning

New Voices, New Technologies, and New Voters

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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

The 2008 US presidential campaign saw politicians utilizing all types of new media -- Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, e-mail, and cell phone texting – to reach voters of all ages, ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds, and sexual orientations. This volume examines the use of these media and...
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DIY Resistance

36 Ways to Fight Back!

by Anthony Alvarado
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018

DIY Resistance celebrates the power of the people and shows how readers can take inspiration from the actions and words of leaders, activists, and historical heroes; how we can learn to take care of ourselves physically and emotionally in troubled times, and do our part to look after the larger community...
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by Michael A. Julius
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018

Congress has been shaped by an unlikely force—presidential involvement in midterm campaigning. This book argues that midterm campaigning is a presidential Trojan horse and that in undertaking it, presidents have brought their parties to heel; indebted individual representatives and senators to them;...
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Immigrants and Electoral Politics

Nonprofit Organizing in a Time of Demographic Change

by Heath Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016

In Immigrants and Electoral Politics, Heath Brown shows why nonprofit electoral participation has emerged in relationship to new threats to immigrants, on one hand, and immigrant integration into U.S. society during a time of demographic change, on the other. Immigrants across the United States tend...
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The Blueprint

Conservative Parties and their Impact on Canadian Politics

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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017

In this collection, J.P. Lewis and Joanna Everitt bring together a group of up-and coming-political scientists as well as senior scholars to explore the recent history of the Conservative Party of Canada, covering the pre-merger period (1993–2003) and both the minority and majority governments under...
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The Obama Effect

How the 2008 Campaign Changed White Racial Attitudes

by Seth K. Goldman, Diana C. Mutz
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014

Barack Obama’s historic 2008 campaign exposed many white Americans more than ever before to a black individual who defied negative stereotypes. While Obama’s politics divided voters, Americans uniformly perceived Obama as highly successful, intelligent, and charismatic. What effect, if any, did...
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by Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Melissa R. Michelson
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012

Which get-out-the-vote efforts actually succeed in ethnoracial communities—and why? Analyzing the results from hundreds of original experiments, the authors of this book offer a persuasive new theory to explain why some methods work while others don’t.Exploring and comparing a wide variety of efforts...
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Climbing the Hill

How to Build a Career in Politics and Make a Difference

by Amos Snead, Jaime Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018

Inspiring, nonpartisan insider's advice on how anyone can build a career in local, state, and national government, from two rising stars in Washington government and policy. This inspiring, nonpartisan guide, written by longtime staff members of Republican and Democratic house leadership teams...
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Get Yourself Elected

Quick Tips for Winning a Local Election

by Tammy Pickering Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015

Tammy Pickering Barnett, a leadership and communications training consultant and past political candidate, provides practical tips for running a campaign and getting elected in this easy-to-read booklet. Get practical guidance on developing and honing your message, building a strong campaign...
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by Edward Ashbee
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017

This bookconsiders the reasons for Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the 2016 presidential election. It charts the prolonged campaign and the realigning processes that took place, analysing the ideas that defined the Trump platform, the electoral shifts in states regarded as solid ‘firewalls’...
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Crashing the Party

From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement

by Heather Gautney
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

A leading activist-scholar on what’s next in the Sanders revolution Bernie Sanders shocked the political establishment by winning 13 million votes and a majority of young voters in the 2016 Democratic primary. Since that upset, repeated polls have judged this democratic socialist to be the...
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The Two Americas

Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It

by Stanley B. Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014

The 2000 presidential left the world standing still, but it was no fluke. America is divided right down the middle - the product of a half-century, unique in our country's history, of inconclusive, increasingly heated partisan battle. Tantalizingly close to victory, each party inflames and mobilizes...
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