Elections category: 1210 books
Incremental Polarization
A Unified Spatial Theory of Legislative Elections, Parties and Roll Call Voting
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
As the last decade has shown, ideological polarization in Congress has reached historic levels. Yet, spatial theory has become increasingly important for how scholars understand Congress and legislative elections. In spatial models, candidates select positions along an ideological spectrum, and voters...
Justices on the Ballot
Continuity and Change in State Supreme Court Elections
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Justices on the Ballot addresses two central questions in the study of judicial elections: how have state supreme court elections changed since World War II? And, what effects have those changes had on election outcomes, state supreme court decisions, and the public's view of the courts? To answer...
Networked Information Technologies, Elections, and Politics
Korea and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Jongwoo Han’s Networked Information Technologies, Elections, and Politics: Korea and the United States is a study on the changes that have been occurring in elections, politics, and democratic movements in both the United States and Korea. There has undoubtedly been a paradigm shift in political...
Timing and Turnout
How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Public policy in the United States is the product of decisions made by more than 500,000 elected officials, and the vast majority of those officials are elected on days other than Election Day. And because far fewer voters turn out for off-cycle elections, that means the majority of officials in...
Buckeye Battleground
Ohio, Campaigns, and Elections in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Buckeye Battleground is the result of a decade's worth of research at the Bliss Institute on elections in Ohio, with special emphasis on the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns, and the 2006 gubernatorial campaign. This book seeks to explain why Ohio is, and has been, at the center of American elections.Using...
Image Bite Politics
News and the Visual Framing of Elections
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Image Bite Politics is the first book to systematically assess the visual presentation of presidential candidates in network news coverage of elections and to connect these visual images with shifts in public opinion. Presenting the results of a comprehensive visual analysis of general election news...
The Thumpin'
How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In the 2006 midterm elections, the Democratic party ended twelve years of electoral humiliation by seizing back Congress and putting an end to Republican rule. The Thumpin’ is the story of that historic victory and the man at the center on whom Democratic hopes hinged: Congressman Rahm Emanuel,...
The Way to Win
Taking the White House in 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
In The Way to Win, two of the country’s most accomplished political reporters explain what separates the victors from the victims in the unforgiving environment of modern presidential campaigns.
Mark Halperin, political director of ABC News, and John F. Harris, the national politics editor...
by John Fund
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
One of the easiest ways to increase public cynicism about elections is to change the rule book to make the laws governing how we vote more vague and less rigorous. “Reforms” have been passed amid claims they would increase voter turnout. They haven’t - but they have made it easier to commit absentee...
Fixing Elections
The Failure of America's Winner Take All Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Fixing Elections shows our whole 18th-century Winner Take All political system, including the way we elect our legislatures. Steven Hill argues our geographic-based, Winner Take All political system is at the root of many of our worst political problems, including poor minority and majority representation,...
Down for the Count
Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The updated edition of Steal This Vote—a rollicking history of US voter suppression and fraud from Jacksonian democracy to Citizens United and beyond.
In Down for the Count, award-winning journalist Andrew Gumbel explores the tawdry history of elections in the United States. From Jim Crow...
From Edward Brooke to Barack Obama
African American Political Success, 1966-2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
In 2008, American history was forever changed with the election of Barack Obama, the United States’ first African American president. However, Obama was far from the first African American to run for a public office or to face the complexities of race in a political campaign. For over a century,...
Improving Public Opinion Surveys
Interdisciplinary Innovation and the American National Election Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
The American National Election Studies (ANES) is the premier social science survey program devoted to voting and elections. Conducted during the presidential election years and midterm Congressional elections, the survey is based on interviews with voters and delves into why they make certain choices....
Divided America
The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Divided America tells the biggest story in American politics today. It's the story behind the emergence of a ferocious power struggle between conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats that is tearing the country's politics apart.
Drawing on extensive polling data and close analyses of...