Elections category: 1210 books
Network Propaganda
Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Is social media destroying democracy? Are Russian propaganda or "Fake news"...
The Resistance
The Dawn of the Anti-Trump Opposition Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Even before the 2016 presidential election took place, groups and individuals angry at Donald Trump, and frightened about what a Trump presidency could mean, were taking to the streets. After the election, and particularly after he inaugural, the protests continued. Over time, the Resistance was joined...
Ideology and Identity
The Changing Party Systems of India
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Indian party politics, commonly viewed as chaotic, clientelistic, and corrupt, is nevertheless a model for deepening democracy and accommodating diversity. Historically, though, observers have argued that Indian politics is non-ideological in nature. In contrast, Pradeep Chhibber and Rahul Verma contend...
Regime Change
National Security in the Age of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
Regime Change provides in-depth insights into President Bush's handling of national security and terrorism issues pre- and post-9/11 and guidelines for the Democratic presidential candidate's strategic "war on terrorism" that includes: restructuring the Intelligence Community and national...
I Want to Know What the Candidates Will Try to Do If They Are Elected!
A Manifesto for a Better America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
As I watch the current election campaign unfold, I had sick.
In this short manifesto, I offer a simple idea for changing America and having a better informed electorate.
You can download this for free. You can share it for free.
This is our time to change our country but...
by Alex Wright
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
This book addresses the premise that the question of who governs Scotland has become increasingly ambiguous, thanks in part to European integration, globalisation and devolution within the UK. It argues that although the concept of multi-level governance helped illuminate regionalism with the EU,...
The Machine
Who's Counting Your Vote?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The good news; We did rebuild after 9/11/2001. People did pickup the shattered pieces and carried on with their lives, but the "Winds of Discontent" are blowing once again. Our leadership seems distracted by political correctness and a desire to appease our enemies. Will an election of another President...
Creatures of Politics
Media, Message, and the American Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
It’s a common complaint that a presidential candidate's style matters more than substance and that the issues have been eclipsed by mass-media-fueled obsession with a candidate’s every slip, gaffe, and peccadillo. This book explores political communication in American presidential politics, focusing...
Reforming the Presidential Nominating Process
Front-Loading's Consequences and the National Primary Solution
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
The 2020 presidential selection process is already underway. As the political parties finalize their nominating rules and the states jostle for an advantageous contest date, potential challengers are being identified and sized up by party insiders. Once again, media and popular attention will be disproportionately...
Election Campaigning in East and Southeast Asia
Globalization of Political Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
At the end of the last century, political marketing appeared to have become a global phenomenon with an increasing number of electoral campaigns resembling those of the United States. Comparative research has shown the existence of a so-called 'Americanization' of election campaign practices. This...
The Republican Dream Team of 2016
A Strategy for Republicans to Win
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
THE REPUBLICAN DREAM TEAM OF 2016 introduces an audacious concept to transform an overcrowded field of candidates into a powerhouse team to win the general election, while also offering an insightful and easy-to-use Voter’s Guide.
The Republican Dream Team of 2016 provides critical information...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Technology and the Internet especially have brought on major changes to politics and are playing an increasingly important role in political campaigns, communications, and messaging. Political Campaigning in the Information Age increases our understanding of aspects and methods for political campaigning,...
Woman President
Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
What elements of American political and rhetorical culture block the imagining—and thus, the electing—of a woman as president? Examining both major-party and third-party campaigns by women, including the 2008 campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, the authors of Woman President: Confronting...
by Carl W. Dundas
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
This work aims to promote the concept of reducing the incidence of election irregularities and requiring less intervention by the court or similar disputes resolution mechanisms. The essence of this new approach is to place much greater emphasis on drastically reducing errors through noncompliance...