Practical Politics category: 1369 books
by George Tomezsko
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2005
Flawed Foundings should interest students of government who are curious to learn how healthy republics can be set up and maintained. It should also appeal to conservatives concerned about the decline of manners and morals, and the growth of government, here in the United States. The book offers a...
The Resilient Voter
Stressful Polling Places and Voting Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
The Resilient Voter: Stressful Polling Places and Voting Behavior provides a new perspective on the role voting barriers play, demonstrating that they not only discourage participation but also affect the quality of votes cast. Offering an interesting and unique approach to the study of voting barriers,...
Polling and the Public
What Every Citizen Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Polling and the Public helps readers become savvy consumers of public opinion polls, offering solid grounding on how the media cover them, their use in campaigns and elections, and their interpretation. This trusted, brief guide by Herb Asher also provides a non-technical explanation of the methodology...
Super PAC!
Money, Elections, and Voters after Citizens United
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Recent federal court activity has dramatically changed the regulatory environment of campaign finance in the United States. Since 2010, the judiciary has decided that corporations and labor unions may freely spend in American elections, and that so-called "Super PACs" can accept unlimited...
Four Crises of American Democracy
Representation, Mastery, Discipline, Anticipation
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
In the last decade, observers of Western governments have become increasingly concerned about an apparent crisis of democracy. They argue that endemic corruption, inadequate services, and increasing voter disaffection have produced a dire result: a global resurgence of authoritarianism. The political...
Making sense of Brexit
Democracy, Europe and uncertain futures
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
After the shock decision to leave the EU in 2016, what can we learn about our divided and increasingly unequal society and the need to listen to each other? This engaging and accessible book addresses the causes and implications of Brexit, exploring this moral anger against political elites and people...
Credible and True
The Political and Personal Memoir of K. Harvey Proctor
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Early in the morning of 4 March 2015, a fierce knock at the door heralded the start of a new chapter in Harvey Proctor’s almost continuous relationship with the police and media, when officers from the Metropolitan Police raided his home in connection with Operation Midland, Scotland Yard’s investigation...
Revolution to Devolution
Reflections on Welsh Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This is an integrated range of studies focusing on Wales by a long-established and internationally-recognised academic authority and member of the House of Lords on the advance of democracy and the evolving idea of national identity in modern Britain. It casts back to the impact of change in Europe...
by Michael Ashcroft
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The 2017 general election was supposed to be a walkover for the Conservative Party – but the voters had other ideas.
In The Lost Majority, Lord Ashcroft draws on his unique research to explain why the thumping victory the Tories expected never happened. His findings reveal what real voters...
Turkey Interrupted
Derailing Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
This book strives to explain what has happened in Turkey in 2013 and 2014 following the onset of major corruption investigations incriminating people close to the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, including his son Bilal Erdogan, various ministers, and several business people. It shows how...
by Jay Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
This book is for candidates who are running for office; those who would like to know how to run for office, and how to win an election. Included are lessons from the 2016 election about communicating a message to voters; the art of a compelling slogan; mistakes to avoid; prosecuting a campaign strategy....
Campus Battlefield
How Conservatives Can WIN the Battle on Campus and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Campus Battlefield takes that fight to our nation’s college campuses, where the left’s decades-long campaign to transform our universities into radical re-education camps is working, and now we are seeing the disastrous results. Free speech, intellectually rigorous debate, and the simple concepts...
Brexit
How Britain Left Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?
On 23 June 2016, UK voters elected to leave the European Union. The result was perhaps the biggest bombshell in modern British political history. In this new and updated edition of Denis MacShane's bestselling history of the UK's relationship with Europe, the former Europe...
Gorbachev
The Man and the System
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Gorbachev: The Man and the System portrays Gorbachev's rise to power and his tenure in office against the background of a period of critical change and development in the Soviet system. The research is primarily based on Soviet materials, supplemented and critically compared with a wide range of Western...