Elections category: 1210 books

Cover of A Behavioral Theory of Elections
by Jonathan Bendor, Daniel Diermeier, David A. Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011

Most theories of elections assume that voters and political actors are fully rational. While these formulations produce many insights, they also generate anomalies--most famously, about turnout. The rise of behavioral economics has posed new challenges to the premise of rationality. This groundbreaking...
Cover of Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy
by Zachary Callen, J. Eric Oliver, Shang E. Ha
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012

Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives. Yet political scientists have few explanations...
Cover of Code Red: Computerized Election Theft And The New American Century
by Jonathan D. Simon
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014

CODE RED is about what has happened to American elections, American politics, and America since computers took over the vote counting just a few short years ago. It identifies red flags and offers accessible examinations of why those flags are red. It is a disturbing and provocative call to action. It...
Cover of Key States, High Stakes

Key States, High Stakes

Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and the 2010 Elections

by Charles S. Bullock III, Dante J. Scala, Daniel C. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011

The 2010 elections were one of the most highly anticipated midterm elections in our nation's recent history. After the historic 2008 election, in which America elected its first black president, Sarah Palin's involvement and the emergence of the Tea Party in the 2010 congressional elections had the...
Cover of Reporting on elections

Reporting on elections

Council of Europe handbook for civil society organisations

by Council of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Elections are a pre-condition for democratic governance since it is through them that the citizens of a country choose freely, and on the basis of the law, the persons that can legitimately govern in their name and in their interest. The right to free elections, as enshrined in the Article 3 of the...
Cover of The Politics of Congressional Elections
by Gary C. Jacobson, Jamie L. Carson
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015

Gary Jacobson’s classic text provides students with a comprehensive introduction to congressional elections and the electoral process. Based on the latest data from the National Election Study, the Cooperative Congressional Elections Study, and the Federal Election Commission, the Ninth Edition...
Cover of New Directions in Campaigns and Elections
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011

The ground upon which campaigns and elections are contested has been shifting rapidly in the last decade. Radical and ongoing changes to the way elections are administered and campaigns are financed; new approaches to polling, campaign management and advertising, and voter mobilization; and recent...
Cover of U.S. Media and Elections in Flux

U.S. Media and Elections in Flux

Dynamics and Strategies

by David A. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016

Paid, earned, and social media are all crucial elements of modern electioneering, yet there is a scarcity of supplementary texts for campaigns and election courses that cover all types of media. Equally, media and politics courses cover election-related topics, yet there are few books that cover these...
Cover of Political Communication & Strategy

Political Communication & Strategy

Consequences of the 2014 Midterm Elections

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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017

Some aspects of the 2014 midterm elections would have been unimaginable a decade earlier. SuperPACs spent unlimited amounts of money, candidates used Twitter and other social media to communicate with voters, and Democrats found themselves all but entirely cast out of federal office in the South....
Cover of The 2012 Campaign and the Timeline of Presidential Elections
by Robert S. Erikson, Christopher Wlezien
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014

Do voters cast ballots for the candidates whose positions best match their own? Or does the race for president come down to who runs the most effective campaign? In their book, The Timeline of Presidential Elections, published in 2012, Erikson and Wlezien documented how both factors come into play....
Cover of Presidential Elections in Iran

Presidential Elections in Iran

Changing Faces; Status Quo Policies

by NCRI- U.S. Representative Office
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017

Presidential Elections in Iran: Changing Faces; Status Quo Policies reviews the past 11 presidential elections, demonstrating that the only criterion for qualifying as a candidate is practical and heartfelt allegiance to the Supreme Leader. An unelected vetting watchdog, the Guardian Council makes...
Cover of Conventional Wisdom and American Elections

Conventional Wisdom and American Elections

Exploding Myths, Exploring Misconceptions

by Peter L. Francia, Jody C Baumgartner
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007

Many students develop misinformed opinions about the American electoral process. Conventional Wisdom and American Elections: Exploding Myths, Exploring Misconceptions debunks some of the more common misunderstandings that have arisen about the electoral process in the past few decades. The book's...
Cover of Change and Continuity in the 2016 Elections
by Mr. John Aldrich, Jamie L. Carson, Brad T. Gomez
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018

Is America in the midst of an electoral transformation? What were the sources of Trump’s victory in 2016, and how do they differ from Republican coalitions of the past? Does his victory signal a long-term positive trajectory for Republicans’ chances in presidential elections? Change and...
Cover of The Ethnopolitics of Elections
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

This volume conceptualizes the dynamics underlying electoral politics in ethnically divided societies, providing empirical evidence and analysis of recent elections in such societies on a comparative and single-case basis, including case studies of Macedonia, Slovakia, Belgium, Malaysia, Singapore,...
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