Elections category: 1210 books
by Matt Qvortrup
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Referendums are ubiquitous; from Brexit in the United Kingdom in 2016 to same-sex marriage in Australia in 2017 Why are referendums held at all? And when they are held, why are they won or lost? Moreover, what are the consequences of having referendums? Do they strengthen or weaken democracy? Are...
The Beltway Beast
Stealing from Future Generations and Destroying the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The Beltway Beast: Stealing from Future Generations and Destroying the Middle Class, transcends the anger and frustration of American people with their leaders failing to solve the country’s problems. It documents our current reality and offers transformational ideas, such as shrinking the Presidential...
Facing the Challenge of Democracy
Explorations in the Analysis of Public Opinion and Political Participation
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Citizens are political simpletons--that is only a modest exaggeration of a common characterization of voters. Certainly, there is no shortage of evidence of citizens' limited political knowledge, even about matters of the highest importance, along with inconsistencies in their thinking, some glaring...
Deciding What’s True
The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Over the past decade, American outlets such as PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and the Washington Post's Fact Checker have shaken up the political world by holding public figures accountable for what they say. Cited across social and national news media, these verdicts can rattle a political campaign and...
When Money Talks
The High Price of "Free" Speech and the Selling of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Special-interest money is destroying our democratic process. But now that the *Citizens United decision has thrown out campaign spending limits as abridgments of free speech, Americans want to know what they can do about it. Derek Cressman gives us the tools, both intellectual and tactical, to fight...
Fremdes Land Amerika
Warum wir unser Verhältnis zu den USA neu bewerten müssen
Language: German
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Ingo Zamperoni war stets fasziniert von den USA. Er ist es heute noch – nun aber mit einem nüchternen Blick auf die Realitäten des Landes. Sein dortiges Studium und seine journalistische Tätigkeit haben ihm gezeigt: Vieles an Amerika kann man bewundern, etwa den ausgeprägten Altruismus oder...
Rules for Revolutionaries
How Big Organizing Can Change Everything
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Lessons from the groundbreaking grassroots campaign that helped launch a new political revolution
Rules for Revolutionaries is a bold challenge to the political establishment and the “rules” that govern campaign strategy.
It tells the story of a breakthrough experiment conducted...
How To Win A Local Election, Revised
A Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 1999
Revised and updated, this is the most practical, most detailed handbook ever published on the techniques and approaches you need to run a successful campaign for any local office.
Politics the Wellstone Way
How to Elect Progressive Candidates and Win on Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
During the past four years, political activism has grown to a level that has not been seen in the United States since the Vietnam War. Tensions over the war in Iraq and the presidential election motivated hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the political fence to take to the streets. Politics...
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
As the plugged-in presidential campaign has arguably reached maturity, Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age challenges popular claims about the democratizing effect of Digital Communication Technologies (DCTs). Analyzing campaign strategies, structures, and tactics from the past five presidential...
Crossing the River
The Coming of Age of the Internet in Politics and Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2005
The political process is seeing the impact of disruptive technologies that are leading to dramatic changes in the marketplace of ideas and action. Crossing the River: The Coming of Age of the Internet in Politics and Advocacy, Karen A.B. Jagoda, Editor, documents how attitudes changed about the convergence...
by Rodney Statham
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
In the book, the author explains the most difficult tasks of a campaign in a simple way so anyone can understand. You will learn how to calculate your vote goal, where to find the voters, how to raise money, how to deal with the media and most importantly how figure out how much time and volunteers...
Political Tool Kit
Secrets of Winning Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
From city councils to governorships, from county commissioners to coroners, there are thousands of contested or vacant elected offices each year throughout the United States. In Political Tool Kit, author Ron Parsons provides a practical guide for citizens who are seeking an opportunity to participate...
Political Communication
The Manship School Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
A new era of political power has arrived, one in which the social media forces of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter indisputably play a larger role in the political process. In this revised and expanded edition of Political Communication: The Manship School Guide, edited by Robert Mann and David D. Perlmutter,...