Elections category: 1210 books
Democracy Betrayed
How Superdelegates, Redistricting, Party Insiders, and the Electoral College Rigged the 2016 Election
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
An impassioned takedown of the undemocratic features of American electoral politics and their role in the 2016 election. Americans are taught to cherish our democracy, especially our right to vote. But after the 2016 presidential election, we are confronted, yet again, with the reality that our system...
Cases in Congressional Campaigns
Riding the Wave
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
After Barack Obama’s historic 2008 victory, Democrats were riding high. But a number of tough fights on policy initiatives, coupled with an economy struggling to recover, put Democrats in a difficult position leading up to the 2010 congressional elections. With nearly all the electoral gains Democrats...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Voting in Old and New Democracies examines voting behavior and its determinants based on 26 surveys from 18 countries on five continents between 1992 and 2008. It systematically analyzes the impact on voting choice of factors rooted in the currently dominant approaches to the study of electoral...
Making Political Choices
Canada and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Recent national elections in Canada and the United States have been exciting, consequential contests. In the 2004 federal election in Canada, the Liberal Party narrowly clung to power after a volatile and bitter battle with the new Conservative Party. In 2006, the Conservative Party won a fragile...
Election Fraud
Detecting and Deterring Electoral Manipulation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Allegations of fraud have marred recent elections around the world, from Russia and Italy to Mexico and the United States. Such charges raise fundamental questions about the quality of democracy in each country. Yet election fraud and, more broadly, electoral manipulation remain remarkably understudied...
by Michael M. Franz, Paul B. Freedman, Kenneth M. Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
It has been estimated that more than three million political ads were televised leading up to the elections of 2004. More than $800,000,000 was spent on TV ads in the race for the White House alone and presidential candidates, along with their party and interest group allies, broadcast over a million...
Election 2014
Why the Republicans Swept the Midterms
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
The Republican party overwhelmingly carried the midterm elections of 2014, winning nearly every contested congressional and gubernatorial seat and taking the Senate after eight years of Democratic control. Many have characterized this sweep as a sign of a fundamental political shift toward the GOP....
Winning Elections
Strategies and Principles for Victory in the War for Votes
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Since planning this book I’ve had the singular goal of writing a book that any political candidate, anywhere in the democratic world, could pick up and find it useful, practical. I want to help them realize their political ambitions. It makes no difference if they are running for office for the first...
by Stephen J. Wayne
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
The 2012 election is over, but the debate over the fairness and accuracy of our electoral system continues. The courts are dealing with the alleged discriminatory impact of voter ID requirements on minority voters; privacy and vote manipulation are concerns as political campaigns utilize new technology...
Populism and Patronage
Why Populists Win Elections in India, Asia, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Populist rule is bad for democracy, yet in country after country, populists are being voted into office. Populism and Patronage shows that the populists such as Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi win elections when the institutionalized ties between non-populist parties and voters decay. Yet, the explanations...
The Cash Ceiling
Why Only the Rich Run for Office--and What We Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Why working-class Americans almost never become politicians, what that means for democracy, and what reformers can do about it
Why are Americans governed by the rich? Millionaires make up only three percent of the public but control all three branches of the federal government. How did this...
Image and Emotion in Voter Decisions
The Affect Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Drawing on a decade of their own research from the 2000 to 2012 U.S. presidential elections, Renita Coleman and Denis Wu explore the image presentation of political candidates and its influence at both aggregate and individual levels. When facing complex political decisions, voters often rely on gut...
by Orlando J. Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Every ten years political representation in the U.S.House of Representatives is redistributed (reapportioned) among the fifty states.The process began anew with the 2010 census, which is counting the nation's population as the basis for reapportionment.The decennial census has a history wrought with...
People versus Politics
A study of opinions, attitudes, and perceptions in Vancouver-Burrard
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
This lively and sophisticated study describes the opinions and attitudes of the electors in one electoral district (Vancouver-Burrard) during the federal and provincial elections held from 1963 to 1965. Based on interviews with a random sample of 800 people in the riding, it examines voting patterns...