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With its keen observations, diligent research, and insider revelations, Alan Schroeder's popular, big-picture history explores the phenomenon of American presidential debates like no other volume. From pundits to political operatives, debate moderators to the viewing public, Schroeder examines how the various stakeholders make and experience this powerful event. For this third edition, Schroeder analyzes the 2008 and 2012 presidential debates and...
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John H. Aldrich is the Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke University. Kathleen M. McGraw is professor of political science at Ohio State University.
The American National Election Studies (ANES) is the premier social science survey program devoted to voting and elections. Conducted during the presidential election years and midterm Congressional elections, the survey is based on interviews with voters and delves into...
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The problems that need attention in the United States aren't new, nor are their solutions. Yet the political establishment neither understands these problems nor desires to address them. Only informed and courageous leadership can change that. In The Right Problems, former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain shows how we can overcome the ignorance that has spread throughout our country, and describes what an informed and courageous leader...
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Conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and liberal author Gore Vidal exploded onto the political scene during the presidential conventions of 1968 when they debated 11 times on ABC News as a part of the network's convention coverage. Their debates were fiery and combative and they infamously blew up at each other during their penultimate debate in Chicago. The debates, the subject of the new documentary film "Best of Enemies," have not been shown...
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Wales Says Yes provides the definitive account and analysis of the March 2011 Welsh referendum. Drawing on extensive historical research, the book explains the background to the referendum, why it was held, and what was at stake. The book also explains how the rival Yes and No campaigns emerged, and the varying degree of success with which they functioned. Through a detailed account of the results, and analysis of survey evidence on Welsh voters,...
67) No Debate
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Broadcast to tens of millions of Americans, the presidential debates are the Super Bowl of politics. A good performance before the cameras can vault a contender to the front of the pack, while a gaffe spells national embarrassment and can savage a candidacy. The slim margin for error has led the two major parties to seek-and achieve, under the aegis of the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates-tight control through scripting, severe time limits,...
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"R. Michael Alvarez, Winner of American Political Science Association Emerging Scholar Award" R. Michael Alvarez is Professor of Political Science at the California Institute of Technology and the author of Information and Elections. John Brehm is Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Phantom Respondents and the coauthor of Working, Shirking, and Sabotage.
Those who seek to accurately gauge...
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En Cataluña la gente está cambiando, se lee en Radiografía de bolsillo del independentismo catalán. Formas de ser o de comportarse que fueron habituales están sufriendo una sorprendente mutación: se extiende un andar ingrávido, la mirada oblicua y esa insólita práctica de oír con una solo oreja.
El objeto de este libro es analizar con brevedad y con argumentos sencillos las razones que mueven a los independentistas extremos. ¿Cuáles son...
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Now in its fourth edition, After the People Vote remains an indispensable concise guide to help students and all citizens understand this critical and controversial American political institution. The mechanisms that lead to the final selection of a president are complex. Some procedures are sketched out in the original Constitution and its amendments, and others in federal law, congressional rules and procedures, state laws, and political party rules....
71) Personality Wins
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Ever since 1789, Americans have engaged in the time-honored tradition of judging presidential candidates by their personalities. While it may sound unwise to pick the leader of the free world based on personality traits rather than platforms, policies, and ideology, that is exactly what will happen in the 2024 election.In this exploration of U.S. presidential elections, personality expert Merrick Rosenberg and co-author Richard Ellis reveal the pattern...
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Are you frustrated by the excessive influence of money in politics? Learn the secret techniques that the biggest campaign contributors use to manipulate the primary elections of both political parties. These corrupt techniques will stop being effective when we stop using single-mark ballots and start using 1-2-3 ballots. Arm yourself with an understanding that will empower you to help put the United States on a path to higher levels of democracy....
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¿De dónde proviene el dinero que financia las campañas electorales? ¿Quién está en campaña, el dinero o el partido? ¿Cómo se canaliza este dinero? ¿Qué "deudas" genera y cómo se pagan? Este libro estudia la financiación electoral, sobre todo la que proviene de los grandes donantes -los ricos y las grandes empresas- y va hacia los principales partidos y candidatos que disputan el control del Congreso y la Presidencia, desde un enfoque...
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With a reporter's keen eye for detail, award-winning journalist Zelnick conveys every emotion of the key players in this battle, presenting a rich, colorful tale that reads more like a fictional political thriller than the bizarre real-life drama it was-from election night through the U.S. Supreme Court's historic decision.
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Although democracy is, in principle, the antithesis of dynastic rule, families with multiple members in elective office continue to be common around the world. In most democracies, the proportion of such "democratic dynasties" declines over time, and rarely exceeds ten percent of all legislators. Japan is a startling exception, with over a quarter of all legislators in recent years being dynastic. In Dynasties and Democracy, Daniel M. Smith sets out...
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As our country's politicians engage in bitter partisan battles, focused on protecting their own jobs but not on doing the nation's business, and political pundits shout louder and shriller to improve their ratings, it's no wonder that Americans have little faith in their government. But, is America as divided as the politicians and talking heads would have us believe? Do half of Americans stand on the right and the other half on the left with a no-man's-land...
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In the wake of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), the case that allowed corporate and union spending in elections, many Americans despaired over the corrosive influence that private and often anonymous money can have on political platforms, campaigns, and outcomes at the federal and state level. In McComish v. Bennett (2011), the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the matching funds feature of so-called "Clean Elections" public...
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Has Trump already stolen the 2020 election? Vote theft was once considered to be a marginal issue that no one wanted to talk about, but as the stakes have risen and the facts have become known, in large part thanks to this author, it is now recognized as one of the central issues deciding our presidential elections. The scope is staggering. In the Georgia 2018 midterm election alone-the testing ground, Republican voting officials quietly removed half...
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The midterm elections of 2014 saw the culmination of long-term trends in American politics and laid the groundwork for Republicans' successes in 2016. To what extent were the results the product of shifting partisan and demographic trends, and to what extent did policy questions drive the results? What can 2014 tell us about midterm elections generally? In this volume, leading scholars look at this election in its broad strokes, in case studies of...
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After one of the closest elections in U.S. history, the attention of American people shifted to Florida, the fourth most populous state in the Union, and one of the most diverse, divided, and fastest growing: its 25 electoral votes could have put either candidate into the White House.
The Miami Herald Report finally provides the answers that Americans have been demanding since the night of November 7, 2000. Including:
* The inside stories of Florida...
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