Elections category: 1210 books
by Sol Erdman; Lawrence Susskind
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Record numbers of Americans fear that our political process is brokenfor good reason. Our nation faces unprecedented challenges, yet our politicians spend most of their energy attacking one another. All the while, no one in public life has offered a practical way to neutralize the bitter partisanship...
Races, Reforms, & Policy
Implications of the 2014 Midterm Elections
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The midterm elections of 2014 saw the culmination of long-term trends in American politics and laid the groundwork for Republicans' successes in 2016. To what extent were the results the product of shifting partisan and demographic trends, and to what extent did policy questions drive the results?...
Exclusion by Elections
Inequality, Ethnic Identity, and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Exclusion by Elections develops a theory about the circumstances under which 'class identities' as opposed to 'ethnic identities' become salient in democratic politics, and links this theory to issues of inequality and the propensity of governments to address it. The book argues that in societies...
by William A. Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This title was first published in 2000: Corruption has become a major issue in East and Southeast Asia since the financial crisis of 1997, leading to widespread political change across the region. But political corruption is not a new issue in Southeast Asia. As Pollwatching, Elections and Civil...
by Peter Natchez
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
When survey research, statistics, and electronic data processing were first introduced, they held out promise that a new level of political knowledge would be created. Applied to the study of voting behavior, survey research promised an understanding of the factors determining the outcome of an election,...
Fraud
How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Can an election be stolen?
You bet it can.
The intrepid reporter Eric Eggers has uncovered just how easy it is to cast a fraudulent ballot—canceling out your vote and in some cases deciding elections. We know—despite official denials—that voter fraud is happening. In fact, Eggers...
Congressional Elections
Campaigning at Home and in Washington
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
In Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington author Paul Herrnson combines top-notch research with real-world politics as he argues that successful candidates run two campaigns: one for votes, the other for resources. Using campaign finance data, original survey research, and...
Drawing the Lines
Constraints on Partisan Gerrymandering in U.S. Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Radical redistricting plans, such as that pushed through by Texas governor Rick Perry in 2003, are frequently used for partisan purposes. Perry's plan sent twenty-one Republicans (and only eleven Democrats) to Congress in the 2004 elections. Such heavy-handed tactics strike many as contrary to basic...
The Risk of Social Policy?
The electoral consequences of welfare state retrenchment and social policy performance in OECD countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
The Risk of Social Policy? uses a comparative perspective to systematically analyse the effects of social policy reforms and welfare state retrenchment on voting choice for the government. It re-examines twenty elections in OECD countries to show if and how social policy issues drive elections.
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by Torrey Maloof
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Improve understanding of the election process for students in grades K-2 by introducing and exploring the connections between national, state, and local elections. Students will learn to think critically about the election process while using the provided primary sources to increase comprehension....
by Muhammad Yeahia Akhter
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This title was first published in 2001. Rigging elections in favour of those in power has become a common practice in Bangladesh. Muhammad Yeahia Akhter focuses on the significance of elections in this ostensibly democratic state and portrays how electoral corruption has damaged the process of democratic...
Electing the Senate
Indirect Democracy before the Seventeenth Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
From 1789 to 1913, U.S. senators were not directly elected by the people—instead the Constitution mandated that they be chosen by state legislators. This radically changed in 1913, when the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving the public a direct vote. Electing the Senate...
British Elections & Parties Review
Volume 13
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Containing contributions from leading names in British politics, this review continues to publish front-rank research on parties, elections and voting behaviour in Britain.
RUSSIA 2018
PREDICTABLE ELECTIONS, UNCERTAIN FUTURE
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Be it for the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the intervention in Syria or the alleged interference in the US presidential election, Russia has been increasingly under the spotlight over the last years. In 2018, the world’s eyes will be upon two events: the presidential elections taking place on March...