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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

    10,91 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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 €

  • 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

    29,78 €

  • 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 Times**The 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 Donald Trump in the 2024 Presi... ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • 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 €

  • The Roads to Congress 2010

    by Sean D. Foreman, Robert Dewhirst, Sunil Ahuja, E Scott Adler, Margaret Banyan, Peter Bergerson, William Binning, Kevin Buterbaugh, Marcia L. Godwin, William K. Hall, Jeffrey Kraus, Tom Lansford, Jerry McBeath, Bob N. Roberts, Josh M. Ryan, Carl Shepro, Daniel E. Smith, Anand Edward Sohkey, Joshua Whitney, Jeffrey S. Ashley ...
    The 2010 Midterm Elections were momentous in the history of U.S. campaigns. Readers of this book will follow the path of seven House and six Senate races from inception to election postmortem. The chapters are both narrative and provide analysis of an array of interesting and diverse contests from throughout the country. Each entry was written by one or more experts living in the state or region ... Read more

    95,50 €

  • The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates

    by Stanley A. Renshon ...
    Looking back over the past 25 years, Stanley Renshon explores how the issue of character has come to dominate presidential campaigns. Drawing on his clinical and political science training, Renshon has devised a theory which allows the public to evaluate the qualities of presidential candidates. ... Read more

    41,39 €

  • Political Symbols and National Identity in Timor-Leste

    by Catherine E. Arthur ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores how national identity has been negotiated and (re)imagined through the political symbols that embody it in post-conflict Timor-Leste. It develops a Modernist approach to nations and nationalism by incorporating Bourdieusian theories of symbolic capital and conflict, to examine how national identity has been constructed and represented in political symbols. Taking case studies of ... Read more

    66,77 €

  • Political Parties, Party Manifestos and Elections in India, 1909–2014

    by R. K. Tiwari ...
    In the parliamentary system of government, manifestos constitute and represent an important aspect of the democratic electoral politics as statements of a party’s ideology, response and policy. This book offers an examination of election manifestos of different political parties in India at the national level. It explores the manifesto as an input to the policy process and presents a comparative ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • Voting in a Hybrid Regime

    Explaining the 2018 Bangladeshi Election

    by Ali Riaz ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This Pivot explores the mechanism of election manipulation in ostensibly democratic but essentially authoritarian systems called the hybrid regime, using the 2018 parliamentary elections in Bangladesh as an example. The 2018 election has delivered an unprecedented victory to the incumbent Bangladesh Awami League. Elections pose serious dilemmas for the leaders of hybrid regimes. While contested ... Read more

    38,15 €

  • The European Parliament in Times of EU Crisis

    Dynamics and Transformations

    Edited by Olivier Costa ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book assesses the many changes that have occurred within the European Parliament and in its external relations since the Lisbon treaty (2009) and the last European elections (2014). It is undoubtedly the institution that has evolved the most since the 1950s. Despite the many crises experienced by European integration in the last years, the Parliament is still undergoing important changes in ... Read more

    76,31 €

  • Veblens America

    The Conspicuous Case of Donald J. Trump

    by Sidney Plotkin ...
    The astonishing political rise of Donald Trump sent seasoned observers scurrying for clues and explanations. How did Trump happen? Of course no one guide will suffice, but a surprisingly helpful one, suggests Sidney Plotkin, is the early twentieth-century American radical, Thorstein Veblen. In remarkably vivid ways, Veblen understood the enduring American allure of figures such as Trump. [NP] As ... Read more

    16,84 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Affluence, Austerity and Electoral Change in Britain

    by Paul Whiteley, Harold D. Clarke, David Sanders, Marianne C. Stewart ...
    Affluence, Austerity and Electoral Change in Britain investigates the political economy of party support for British political parties since Tony Blair led New Labour to power in 1997. Using valence politics models of electoral choice and marshalling an unprecedented wealth of survey data collected in the British Election Study's monthly Continuous Monitoring Surveys, the authors trace forces ... Read more

    27,44 €

  • Media And Voters In Canadian Election Campaigns

    Edited by Frederick J. Fletcher ...
    This volume presents five studies on the relationship between the media and voters. Each examines some aspects of the flow of information to voters during election campaigns and all reflect the assumption that the right to vote must include the right of access and sufficient information to make an informed decision.In separate studies, Jean Crête and Robert MacDermid examine existing studies and ... Read more

    6,46 €

  • Competitive Elections and Democracy in America

    The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    by Heather K. Evans ...
    Series series Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance
    Competition seems to be an inevitable part of present-day elections in the United States. However, recent publications have debated whether we should encourage or discourage competitive elections. In Competitive Elections and Democracy in America, Heather Evans closely examines the debate over competition in elections and questions whether or not they are beneficial for democracy in the US.Evans ... Read more

    15,82 €

  • Google and Democracy

    Politics and the Power of the Internet

    by Sean Richey, J. Benjamin Taylor ...
    For the first time in human history, access to information on almost any topic is accessible through the Internet. A powerful extraction system is needed to disseminate this knowledge, which for most users is Google. Google Search is an extremely powerful and important component to American political life in the twenty-first century, yet its influence is poorly researched or understood.Sean Richey ... Read more

    60,87 €

  • The Qualifications Gap

    Why Women Must Be Better than Men to Win Political Office

    by Nichole M. Bauer ...
    What does it take for women to win political office? This book uncovers a gendered qualifications gap, showing that women need to be significantly more qualified than men to win elections. Applying insights from psychology and political science and drawing on experiments, public opinion data, and content analysis, Nichole M. Bauer presents new evidence of how voter biases and informational ... Read more

    33,49 €

  • The Selection of Political Party Leaders in Contemporary Parliamentary Democracies

    A Comparative Study

    Edited by Jean-Benoit Pilet, William Cross ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites
    This book explores the ways in which political parties, in contemporary parliamentary democracies, choose their leaders and then subsequently hold them accountable. The authors provide a comprehensive examination of party leadership selection and accountability both through examination of parties and countries in different institutional settings and through a holistic analysis of the role of party ... Read more

    71,83 €

  • 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 €

  • Victory

    How a Progressive Democratic Party Can Win the Presidency

    by Arthur Sanders, Stephen J. Wayne ...
    The author of this book is an unabashed liberal democrat. He argues that there are a number of myths and half-truths about American politics that need to be properly understood if progressives and the Democratic party are to win the presidency and govern effectively. The book has three parts: myths and realities of public opinion; current party coalitions - their strengths and weaknesses; a ... Read more

    35,30 €

  • Estimating the Policy Position of Political Actors

    Edited by Michael Laver ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This book gives an up to date reference on the state of the art in this highly important methodological area, which is central both to theoretical models of party competition and to empirical accounts, whether these are case studies or comparative analyses. It looks at subjects including tracking estimates of public opinion and party policy intentions in Britain and the USA; the policy space of ... Read more

    68,18 €

  • 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 €

  • Democratic Transformation and Obstruction

    EU, US, and Russia in the South Caucasus

    by Nelli Babayan ...
    Series series Democratization and Autocratization Studies
    Although "democracy promotion" has become a popular term for policy makers and scholars, democratization is rarely a smooth or linear transition. While some countries quickly democratize, others lag behind despite a long period of democracy promotion activities. Furthermore, while democracy promotion itself has been widely studied, there is a paucity of literature available assessing the outcome ... Read more

    41,39 €