In Voters' Verdicts, Chris Bonneau and Damon Cann address contemporary concerns with judicial elections by investigating factors that influence voters' decisions in the election of state supreme court judges.
Bringing Race Back In empirically investigates whether "e;post-racial"e; campaign strategies, which are becoming increasingly common, improve black candidates' ability to mobilize and attract voters of all races and ethnicities.
Barack Obama's inauguration as the first African American president of the United States has caused many commentators to conclude that America has entered a postracial age.
Public opinion pools have become staples of contemporary political reporting, and most national news organizations have sophisticated in-house polling operations.
Rise, Decline and Renewal tells the remarkable story of the Maine Democratic Party - how it suddenly rose from irrelevance in 1954 with the election of Governor Ed Muskie, successfully challenged the ruling Republican Party over the next two decades, and initiated a creative period of wide-ranging reforms that produced a model government for a state long perceived as a cultural and economic backwater.
Staten Island is New York City's smallest yet fastest growing borough: a conservative, suburban community of nearly a half a million on the fringe of the nation's most liberal, global city.
During 2008, the Democrats achieved in Florida a goal that had eluded them in all but three of the national elections since 1964: victory in the presidential race.
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.
Assessing where the red/blue political line lies in swing states and how it is shiftingDemocratic-leaning urban areas in states that otherwise lean Republican is an increasingly important phenomenon in American politics, one that will help shape elections and policy for decades to come.
Money and politics in an election that broke the moldBeginning with the 1960 election, readers could turn to one book for an authoritative and comprehensive examination of campaign finance at the federal level.
The most important element in every election is getting voters to the polls—these get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts make the difference between winning and losing office.
"e;"e;Some people think that etiquette is fine for tea parties, but there's no room for it when important political business has to be done,"e;"e; writes Miss Manners, otherwise known as Judith Martin.
How the 2016 news media environment allowed Trump to win the presidencyThe 2016 presidential election campaign might have seemed to be all about one man.
On December 12, 2000, a controversial decision by the Supreme Court of the United States effectively ended the disputed presidential contest between George W.
How American elections are increasingly vulnerable and what must be done to protect themUntil recently, most Americans could assume that elections, at all levels of government, were reasonably clean and well managed most of the time.
An engrossing analysis of the pseudo-democratic methods employed by despots around the world to retain control Contrary to what is commonly believed, authoritarian leaders who agree to hold elections are generally able to remain in power longer than autocrats who refuse to allow the populace to vote.
Following Labour's defeat at the polls in 2015, and at time when the Party is attempting to redefine its meaning, values and even identity, there is an urgent need for fresh thinking.
Bringing Race Back In empirically investigates whether "e;post-racial"e; campaign strategies, which are becoming increasingly common, improve black candidates' ability to mobilize and attract voters of all races and ethnicities.
How the 2016 news media environment allowed Trump to win the presidencyThe 2016 presidential election campaign might have seemed to be all about one man.
On December 12, 2000, a controversial decision by the Supreme Court of the United States effectively ended the disputed presidential contest between George W.
The amount of money needed to run a competitive congressional campaign is staggering, with special interests playing a central role in raising these funds.
Public opinion pools have become staples of contemporary political reporting, and most national news organizations have sophisticated in-house polling operations.
Elections have been used as a mechanism to institutionalize a new political order following internal conflict in Cambodia, El Salvador, Angola, Mozambique, Bosnia, and now Liberia.
El trabajo que aquí presentamos recoge de forma sistemática los resultados y las conclusiones de la investigación realizada entre 2017 y 2019 por tres investigadores de la Universidad Externado de Colombia y de la Fundación Activos Culturales Afro - acua1, financiado por la Fundación Konrad Adenauer - Programa Estado de Derecho para Latinoamérica.
Organisationen und Institutionen sind in Bewegung – und Beratungsmärkte mit ihnen• Überblick über Tools und Hintergrund von Supervision und Coaching• Analyse des aktuellen Markts• Mit vielen PraxisbeispielenSupervision und Coaching haben sich seit Erscheinen der ersten Auflage des Buchs stark entwickelt.
