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  • A Short History of Presidential Election Crises

    (And How to Prevent the Next One)

    by Alan Hirsch ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    An urgent primer on what can be done to combat emerging threats to the core of U.S. Democracy—presidential elections.In 2000, we learned that an exceptionally close presidential election can produce chaos, because we have no reliable Constitutional mechanism for resolving disputes. Joe Biden just won a presidential election that was extremely close in a number of states. Trump—and his many ... Read more

    11,12 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Network Propaganda

    Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics

    by Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts ...
    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" entrepreneurs on Facebook undermining our sense of a shared reality? A conventional wisdom has ... Read more

    30,31 €

  • Insane Clown President

    Dispatches from the American Circus

    by Matt Taibbi ...
    *One of the most important voices in contemporary American journalism - IndependentMatt Taibbi is one of the few journalists in America who speaks truth to power - Bernie SandersMatt Taibbi is the best polemic journalist in America - Felix Salmon*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The thing is, when you actually think about it, it's not funny. Given what's at stake, it's more like the opposite, l... ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • Countdown 1960

    The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the 312 Days that Changed America's Politics Forever

    by Chris Wallace ...
    **Instant New York Times BestsellerThe riveting new book on the momentous year, campaign, and election that shaped American history**It’s January 2, 1960: the day that Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy declared his candidacy; and with this opening scene, Chris Wallace offers readers a front-row seat to history. From the challenge of primary battles in a nation that had never elected a Catholic ... Read more

    4,34 €

  • Original Sin

    The must-read Sunday Times bestseller

    by Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson ...
    THE HUGE SUNDAY TIMES AND No. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Explosive' Guardian'Explosive' The Times'Explosive' Daily Mail'Explosive' Politico'Explosive' New York TimesThe book that revealed one of the greatest cover-ups in modern American history.Joe Biden, his family and his senior aides were convinced that only he could beat ... ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • The Dream Shall Never Die

    100 Days that Changed Scotland Forever

    by Alex Salmond ...
    The inside story of the campaign that rocked the United Kingdom to its foundations, and the implications of the Scottish independence movement for the future of British politics.Alex Salmond has been a passionate supporter of Scottish independence his whole life. In September 2014, he came close to realising that dream.In a riveting daily diary, written with his trademark wit and charm, Salmond ... Read more

    9,85 €

  • Civil Society and Political Representation in Latin America (2010-2015)

    Towards a Divorce Between Social Movements and Political Parties?

    Edited by Adrián Albala ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents in-depth analyses of the wave of political protest and unrest that spread throughout Latin America between 2010 and 2015 in order to answer a question that has been challenging social scientists all over the region: why some countries have faced a divorce between their social movements and political parties while others have not?The contributions gathered in this volume intend ... Read more

    104,93 €

  • The Canadian General Election of 2004

    Edited by Jon H. Pammett, Christopher Dornan ...
    The Canadian General Election of 2004 is the definitive study of the campaign and the election. The 2004 edition includes analyses of:The campaigns of the 4 major parties and smaller partiesThe role of newspapers, television and the internet in the campaignsThe pre-election pollsVoting patterns across the countryThe rise in non-votingArticles are contributed from leading Canadian political writers ... Read more

    6,46 €

  • Reclaiming Parkland

    Tom Hanks, Vincent Bugliosi, and the JFK Assassination in the New Hollywood

    by James DiEugenio ...
    New foreword by J.F.K. director Oliver StoneReclaiming Parkland details the failed attempt of Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman to make Vincent Bugliosi’s mammoth book about the Kennedy assassination, Reclaiming History, into a miniseries. It exposes the questionable origins of Reclaiming History in a dubious mock trial for cable television, in which Bugliosi played ... Read more

    16,03 €

  • The Political Economy of International Agreements

    A Collection of Essays

    Edited by Florian Kiesow Cortez ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume analyzes international agreements from a political economy perspective. In four essays, it raises the question of whether domestic institutions help explain if countries join international agreements, and in case they do, what type of international organization they join.The book examines how specific democratic design elements channel and mediate domestic demands directed at ... Read more

    152,63 €

  • AI in Politics: The Rise of Algorithmic Governance

    GoodMan, #1

    by Patrick Mukosha ...
    Series Book 1 - GoodMan
    AI in Politics: The Rise of Algorithmic GovernanceWhere Algorithms Shape Leadership — and Leadership Shapes the Future.In this compelling and timely book, contemporary author, AI expert and political strategist Patrick Mukosha explores how artificial intelligence is transforming politics, power, and governance. From data-driven elections and predictive policymaking to AI-assisted diplomacy and ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Right or Wrong

    The Memoirs of Lord Bell

    by Lord Tim Bell, Charles Vallance, David Hopper ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR IN THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS 2015Tim Bell was the original 'spin doctor'; the Chairman of Bell Pottinger public relations, and one of the best known figures in UK media communications. Right or Wrong is his highly personal account of political, commercial and social life from the '70s to the present day.With a refreshingly uncompromising manner, ... Read more

    18,54 €

  • Tuesday Night Massacre

    Four Senate Elections and the Radicalization of the Republican Party

    by Marc C. Johnson ...
    While political history has plenty to say about the impact of Ronald Reagan’s election to the presidency in 1980, four Senate races that same year have garnered far less attention—despite their similarly profound political effect. Tuesday Night Massacre looks at those races. In examining the defeat in 1980 of Idaho’s Frank Church, South Dakota’s George McGovern, John Culver of Iowa, and Birch Bayh ... Read more

    14,41 €

  • Apaciguamiento

    El Referéndum Revocatorio y la consolidación de la Revolución Bolivariana

    by Miguel Ángel Martínez Meucci ...
    Series Book 58 - Hogueras
    ¿Cómo se defiende una democracia de los líderes que alcanzan el poder mediante mecanismos democráticos? ¿Cuál ha de ser la vía para enfrentar a los autócratas que, al calor del apoyo popular, pretenden hacerse con el poder absoluto? Estos son los dilemas que se le presentaron tanto a los demócratas venezolanos como a los mediadores de la Organización de Estados Americanos y el Centro Carter ante ... Read more

    7,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Evolution of Conservative Party Social Policy

    by B. Williams ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book addresses how the Conservative Party has re-focused its interest in social policy. Analysing to what extent the Conservatives have changed within this particular policy sphere, the book explores various theoretical, social, political, and electoral dimensions of the subject matter. ... Read more

    47,69 €

  • The One-Party Presidential Contest

    Adams, Jackson, and 1824's Five-Horse Race

    by Donald Ratcliffe ...
    Series series American Presidential Elections
    Winner: American Politics Group Richard E Neustadt PrizeWinner: Sally and Morris Lasky PrizeThe election of 1824 is commonly viewed as a mildly interesting contest involving several colorful personalities—John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and William H. Crawford—that established Old Hickory as the people’s choice and yet, through “bargain and corruption,” deprived him ... Read more

    19,92 €

  • The Biden Deception

    Moderate, Opportunist, or the Democrats' Crypto-Socialist?

    by George Neumayr ...
    A Socialist in Sheep's ClothingThat's what Joe Biden is."Ordinary Joe" bills himself as a unifying "moderate," but he's far more dangerous than many realize. In fact, he's on board with the extreme Left on every vital issue—from the "Green New Deal," to trampling on the constitutional rights of gun owners and Christians, to socialist schemes that threaten to turn the United States into Venezuela ... Read more

    17,18 €

  • Être américain aujourd'hui. Les enjeux d'une élection présidentielle

    by Didier Combeau ...
    À la fois fer de lance du progressisme et haut lieu du conservatisme, patrie de #MeToo mais aussi de Donald Trump, les États-Unis n’en finissent pas d’étonner et de surprendre. Tous les quatre ans, l’élection du président focalise l’attention, d’abord sur les personnalités candidates aux primaires, puis sur celles des deux challengers. Leurs noms nous sont familiers, mais nous connaissons souvent ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • Cambridge Women and the Struggle for the Vote

    by Sue Slack ...
    Cambridge was at the forefront of the struggle for women to get the right to vote in Britain a century ago. Millicent Fawcett, who later became the national leader of the non-militant Suffragists and arguably one of the most influential women in Britain of the last 100 years, lived in Cambridge and founded the Cambridge Women’s Suffrage Association, and leading militant suffragette Emmeline ... Read more

    12,29 €

  • Nova Maneira de Votar

    Para retirar um País da má governação e da miséria que lhe está associada!

    by Cid Adão ...
    MODO SIMPLES E PRÁTICO PARA SALVAR, FAZER EVOLUIR E DESENVOLVER UM PAÍS OU QUALQUER ORGANIZAÇÃO ”DEMOCRÁTICOS” MESMO SE ATOLADOS NA MEDIOCRIDADE POLÍTICA!“O mundo é um lugar perigoso para se viver, não por causa daqueles que fazem o mal, mas sim por causa daqueles que observam, e deixam o mal acontecer, sem fazer nada”.Albert EinsteinEXISTE ALGUMA “CRISE” QUE NÃO SEJA SIMPLESMENTE A IDIOTICE DE UM ... Read more

    3,00 €

  • A Transformation in American National Politics

    The Presidential Election of 2012

    Edited by Douglas M. Brattebo, Tom Lansford, Jack Covarrubias ...
    The presidential election of 2012 was among the most important in American history, both for the policies that will persist due to its result, as well as the national political transformation it portends. The contest’s outcome was the product of complex and fast-moving societal changes—demographic, technological, and economic—surfacing in American society. This volume, consisting of essays by ... Read more

    10,59 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reputation Analytics

    Public Opinion for Companies

    by Daniel Diermeier ...
    A scientific approach to corporate reputation from the field’s leading scholar.Public opinion is a core factor of any organization’s success—and sometimes its failings. Whether through crisis, mismanagement, or sudden shifts in public sensibility, an organization can run afoul in the span of a Tweet.In Reputation Analytics, Daniel Diermeier offers the first rigorous analytical framework for ... Read more

    31,37 €

  • Institutional Change in American Politics

    The Case of Term Limits

    Edited by Karl T. Kurtz, Bruce E. Cain, Richard G. Niemi ...
    Legislative term limits adopted in the 1990s are in effect in fifteen states today. This reform is arguably the most significant institutional change in American government of recent decades. Most of the legislatures in these fifteen states have experienced a complete turnover of their membership; hundreds of experienced lawmakers have become ineligible for reelection, and their replacements must ... Read more

    20,34 €

  • Patchwork Nation

    Sectionalism and Political Change in American Politics

    by Jason E. Schuknecht, James G. Gimpel ...
    Though local and regional politics are often ignored in political-behavior literature, analyses of these areas are fundamental to understanding the scope of political change in the regimes experiencing realignment and for which there are no survey data. With the unprecedented population movement and socioeconomic mobility of the twentieth century, political support has been reshuffled in many ... Read more

    24,26 €