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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • El votante mexicano

    Democracia, actitudes políticas y conducta electoral

    by Alejandro Moreno ...
    De todos los actores en el escenario de la incipiente democracia mexicana, el votante es el más importante, el más protagónico y el más complejo. Alejandro Moreno da a conocer al votante mexicano como individuo y como colectividad, por describir sus características, por entender sus razonamientos y por explicar su comportamiento en el contexto de la democracia electoral en nuestro país a la luz de ... Read more

    1,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Obligation Mosaic

    Race and Social Norms in US Political Participation

    by Allison P. Anoll ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Many argue that “civic duty” explains why Americans engage in politics, but what does civic duty mean, and does it mean the same thing across communities? Why are people from marginalized social groups often more likely than their more privileged counterparts to participate in high-cost political activities?In The Obligation Mosaic, Allison P. Anoll shows that the obligations that bring people ... Read more

    26,70 €

  • The 2024 Presidential Campaign

    A Communication Perspective

    by Robert E. Denton Jr. ...
    A comprehensive communication analysis of the 2024 presidential campaignPresidential campaigns are more than elections, they are cultural touchstones that shape national identity and political discourse. The 2024 presidential campaign was a defining moment in American history, marked by political polarization and cultural turns. In The 2024 Presidential Campaign: A Communication Perspective Robert ... Read more

    44,99 €

  • The Partisan Sort

    How Liberals Became Democrats and Conservatives Became Republicans

    by Matthew Levendusky ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    As Washington elites drifted toward ideological poles over the past few decades, did ordinary Americans follow their lead? In The Partisan Sort, Matthew Levendusky reveals that we have responded to this trend—but not, for the most part, by becoming more extreme ourselves. While polarization has filtered down to a small minority of voters, it also has had the more significant effect of ... Read more

    21,40 €

  • Vous n'oublierez rien, colonel

    Aide de camp du président de la république

    by Peer de Jong ...
    De 1994 à 1997, le colonel Peer de Jong a été l’aide de camp de François Mitterrand, puis de Jacques Chirac. Pendant quatre ans, il les a accompagnés quoti dien nement et a partagé leur intimité : maladie de Mitterrand, révélation de l’existence de sa fille cachée Mazarine, attentats à Paris en 1995, élection de Chirac et dissolution de l’Assemblée nationale, cohabitation diffi cile avec Lionel ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • Un chemin pour Toulouse

    by Romain Cujives, Le collectif Toulouse Idées Neuves ...
    À un an et demi des prochaines élections municipales, Romain Cujives, accompagné d'un collectif de citoyens issus de tous horizons, propose un nouveau chemin aux Toulousaines et aux Toulousains.Les dix-sept chapitres de cet ouvrage abordent sans tabou ni idée préconçue l'ensemble des thématiques touchant au quotidien de notre ville et de sa métropole. Ce travail est une contribution à l ... Read more

    0,99 €

  • Choosing party leaders

    Britain's Conservatives and Labour compared

    by Andrew Denham, Peter Dorey, Andrew S. Roe-Crines ...
    How political parties choose their leaders, and why they choose the leaders they do, are questions of fundamental importance in contemporary parliamentary democracies. This book examines political leadership selection in the two dominant parties in recent British political history, exploring the criteria and skills needed by political leaders to be chosen by their parties.While the Conservative ... Read more

    83,52 €

  • Why Vote

    How to make your voice heard in a world of broken politics

    by Jo Phillips, David Seymour ...
    Swamped beneath the tide of fake news, wars on woke and social media storms lies democracy. Jo Phillips and David Seymour guide the reader through the workings of government and Parliament and make a passionate case for the power of democracy. Their argument is that young people should take back control of the future, hold politicians to account and get involved.In the last decade we've had a ... Read more

    8,47 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Political Development In Hong Kong

    by Joseph Yu-shek Cheng ...
    This volume analyzes the political development in Hong Kong in chronological order from the Sino-British negotiations till today. It focuses on the rule of the British administration before 1997; the Chinese leadership's policy towards Hong Kong; the changing attitudes and values of the Hong Kong people; the evolution of the pro-democracy movement in the territory; and the international ... Read more

    120,51 €

  • Americanizing Latino Politics, Latinoizing American Politics

    by Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Alan Yang ...
    Using the most extensive and currently available survey opinion data, this book empirically supports the argument that Latinos have emerged as a convergent panethnic political group, beyond the individual national origin identities dating to the time of the 1990 Latino National Political Survey when Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans were treated conceptually as politically ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • Panorámica de la prensa en el Ecuador garciano

    Construcción y cuestionamiento de una legitimidad política, 1860-1875

    by Ana Buriano ...
    El impulso constructor de una nación católica y moderna que promovió García Moreno en Ecuador, en la segunda mitad del siglo xix, desestructuró consensos, potenció el juego político y polarizó las opiniones. La prensa adquirió entonces un protagonismo propio y se convirtió en un "actor" impulsor de cambios que marcaron la cultura política del estado andino. En coyunturas específicas –económicas y ... Read more

    11,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • El dulce poder

    Así funciona la politica en Colombia

    by La Silla Vacía ...
    Un completo análisis de La Silla Vacía de cómo funcionan las elecciones en Colombia.Un libro que revela los detalles sobre cómo salen victoriosos los candidatos en Colombia, cómo se aceitan las maquinarias, cómo se ganan elecciones ( y reelecciones). Un relato para entender el poder político por dentro. Una tomografía computarizada de la manera de hacer política en Colombia, resultado de una ... Read more

    8,99 €

  • Presidential Debates

    Risky Business on the Campaign Trail

    by Alan Schroeder ...
    Alan Schroeder's big-picture history recounts the phenomenon of American televised presidential debates and its evolution over the past half century. From pundits to political operatives, from debate moderators to the viewing public, Presidential Debates reveals how the various stakeholders make and experience this powerful event. For this third edition, Schroeder analyzes the presidential debates ... Read more

    32,11 €

  • Don't Stop Thinking About the Music

    The Politics of Songs and Musicians in Presidential Campaigns

    by Benjamin S. Schoening, Eric T. Kasper ...
    In this insightful, erudite history of presidential campaign music, musicologist Benjamin Schoening and political scientist Eric Kasper explain how politicians use music in American presidential campaigns to convey a range of political messages. From “Follow Washington” to “I Like Ike” to “I Got a Crush on Obama,” they describe the ways that song use by and for presidential candidates has evolved, ... Read more

    42,28 €

  • Voting with Dollars

    A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance

    by Professor Bruce Ackerman, Professor Ian Ayres ...
    In this provocative book, two leading law professors challenge the existing campaign reform agenda and present a new initiative that avoids the mistakes of the past.Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres build on the example of the secret ballot and propose a system of secret donation booths” for campaign contributions. They unveil a plan in which the government provides each voter with a special credit ... Read more

    17,69 €

  • Cambiamos

    Mauricio Macri Presidente. Día a día, la campaña por dentro

    by Hernán Iglesias Illa ...
    Diario de la campaña política que llevó a Mauricio Macri a la presidencia de la Nación en las elecciones del 22 de noviembre de 2015, desde la perspectiva de uno de sus protagonistas directos: Hernán Iglesias, que trabajó en ella como responsable de comunicación y escritor en las sombras.Un hecho sorprendente marcó el final de 2015 y de toda una etapa en la historia argentina contemporánea: el ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • Economic Voting

    A Campaign-Centered Theory

    by Austin Hart ...
    The conventional wisdom of economic voting theory argues that a nation's economic performance drives electoral outcomes. Therefore, voters will hold an administration accountable for its economic stewardship. Austin Hart challenges the simplicity of this notion, drawing on cognitive-psychological research on priming to demonstrate that the intensity of voters' exposure to economic campaign ... Read more

    100,48 €

  • Conservative Reformers: The Freshman Republicans in the 104th Congress

    The Freshman Republicans in the 104th Congress

    by Nicol C. Rae ...
    Nicol Rae's engaging account of the Republican revolutionaries' freshman year in Congress persuasively demonstrates that the precepts set forth by Madison in Federalist 10 and 51 are still in force in our remarkably stable political system. The 73 Republican freshmen who entered the House of Representatives after the 1994 election were a well-organized group with majority status and a commitment ... Read more

    51,13 €