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81) The Contenders
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When you get beyond the spin, the campaign spending, the YouTube spots, and the paid advertisements, what did the Democratic contenders in the 2008 Presidential election stand for, really? What did Hillary Clinton learn from Nixon? What does Barack Obama have in common with Justin Timberlake? Who are the two John Edwardses? Is America ready for the vegan presidency of Dennis Kucinich? What makes Al Gore rock and roll? Why do Joe Biden, Christopher...
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Voter ou ne pas voter, telle est la question qu'on n'ose pas poser dans nos régimes parlementaires, o les élections sont des rituels sacrés. En défendant la légitimité de l'abstention, cet essai attaque de front la conviction selon laquelle le vote serait un devoir, et le refus de voter une dangereuse hérésie. Bien plus qu'une simple apologie de l'abstention, cet ouvrage propose ainsi une critique radicale du système électoral.
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The Inside Story of the 2012 Presidential Campaign The presidential campaign of 2012 was one of the closest and most fierce, expensive, and unpredictable in our history, and Washington Post senior political correspondent Dan Balz chronicled every twist. Obama vs. Romney is a collection of 50 dispatches from the campaign trail, by one the preeminent political journalists of our times. Balz recounts the back-and-forth slugfest of 2012 in a single seamless...
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Politics was once, described as the art of the possible. It no longer feels that way. Today, it seems more like a battle between two feudal armies. Part of this book is aimed at showing it doesn't have to be that way. Polarization didn't start with Trump and it won't end with him unless we can somehow rescue the country from the political ditch into which it has fallen.
So Another purpose of this book is to examine just how we got here and how the...
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Have you ever wondered why pollsters can't seem to predict who the next president will be? With the sheer volume of data that encircles our lives, why can't pollsters detect the signal through the noise?
POLL-ARIZED is a provocative examination of what has gone wrong with US pre-election polls written from the unique perspective of a market research industry insider. Blending actual data from polls, interviews with leading pollsters, and a proprietary...
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Successful democracies rely on an active citizenry. They require citizens to participate by voting, serving on juries, and running for office. But what happens when those citizens purposefully opt out of politics? Exit-the act of leaving-is often thought of as purely instinctual, a part of the human "fight or flight" response, or, alternatively, motivated by an antiparticipatory, self-centered impulse. However, in this eye-opening book, Jennet Kirkpatrick...
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Trump Bubbles: The Dramatic Rise and Fall of High-Conflict Politicians is the first book to really explain the rise and fall of Donald Trump, candidate for President of the United States of America. What's a trump bubble? It's when emotions trump thinking in politics. When fear trumps facts. When leader love trumps logic. Donald Trump is the most recent trump bubble, but trump bubbles have occurred before and will again. Remember the dot.com bust...
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In the book, the author explains the most difficult tasks of a campaign in a simple way so anyone can understand. You will learn how to calculate your vote goal, where to find the voters, how to raise money, how to deal with the media and most importantly how figure out how much time and volunteers you will need to complete everything.
This book is unique from other campaign books in that the author discusses the three attributes every winning campaign...
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Our Electoral System is Fundamentally Flawed, But There's a Simple and Fair Solution
At least five U.S. presidential elections have been won by the second most popular candidate. The reason was a "spoiler"-a minor candidate who takes enough votes away from the most popular candidate to tip the election to someone else. The spoiler effect is more than a glitch. It is a consequence of one of the most surprising intellectual discoveries of the twentieth...
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La institucionalización de la participación ciudadana y de mecanismos de participación del pueblo en el ejercicio de su soberanía es la apuesta que hizo Colombia en la década de 1980. Motiva esta decisión política la falta de legitimación democrática de las instituciones, los representantes y los gobernantes, así como una necesidad de inclusión de los ciudadanos en las decisiones políticas y administrativas que los afectan.
Por esta razón,...
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Get the Summary of Joshua Green's The Rebels in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Rebels" by Joshua Green chronicles the transformation of the Democratic Party from a labor-centric organization to one more aligned with Wall Street and financial interests. The book traces this shift back to President Jimmy Carter's failed tax reform efforts, which signaled a move away from traditional labor support. Carter's administration...
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True Tales from the Campaign Trail finds Democratic and Republican political consultants putting aside their differences to offer entertaining and honest insights into the art of the political campaign. First-hand accounts from across the spectrum detail the trials and tribulations of primaries for Ted Kennedy, Oliver North, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton; fraught Senate races fought with direct mail; and down-and-dirty tricks pulled in local elections....
93) Looking Forward to It: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the American Electoral Process
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This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign against Germany's gays, as directed by Himmler and his SS-persecution that resulted in tens of thousands of arrests and thousands of deaths.
In this Nazi crusade, homosexual prisoners were confined to death camps where, forced to wear pink triangles,...
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The Politics of Voter Suppression arrives in time to assess actual practices at the polls this fall and to reengage with debates about voter suppression tactics such as requiring specific forms of identification. Tova Andrea Wang examines the history of how U.S. election reforms have been manipulated for partisan advantage and establishes a new framework for analyzing current laws and policies. The tactics that have been employed to suppress voting...
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¿Cómo llega Cataluña a la presidencia de Quim Torra? Las elecciones son algo más que el mecanismo democrático para determinar quién gobierna un territorio. En realidad sirven para mucho más. Por ejemplo, explican cómo se construyen o destruyen los países. No en vano, los desenlaces electorales son también una expresión de la voluntad múltiple de una sociedad y de su fisonomía ideológica e identitaria. Así como de sus inquietudes, pulsiones...
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John Fund explores the real divide the country faces with the looming election. Through wary thoughts on voting integrity, he shows how elections can be decided by the votes of dead people, illegal felon voters, and absentee voters that simply don't exist. If nothing is done to address the growing cynicism about vote counting, rest assured that another close presidential election that descends into bitter partisan wrangling is just around the corner....
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"Without drastic adjustment, this system cannot last much longer," writes Van Reybrouck, regarded today as one of Europe's most astute thinkers. "If you look at the decline in voter turnout and party membership, and at the way politicians are held in contempt, if you look at how difficult it is to form governments, how little they can do and how harshly they are punished for it, if you look at how quickly populism, technocracy and anti-parliamentarianism...
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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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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,...
100) 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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