The World Views of the US Presidential Election: 2008 by Matthias Maass

By Matthias Maass

The 2008 US presidential election used to be a ‘global event.’ internationally, nations felt they'd a huge stake during this election. This examine investigates the conception of the applicants, the problems, and the significance of the 2008 election from out of the country. It does so by way of taking a look at chosen international locations intimately. What emerges should not basically major changes in conception, but additionally subject matters that have been universal to many nations’ perspectives. in reality, those shared perceptions quantity to a ‘world view’ of the U.S. election. the area observed the U.S. election within the context in their personal nationwide priorities and as a vote on a special kind of US management within the world.

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Run for Elected Office—and Win by Jana M. Kemp (auth.)

By Jana M. Kemp (auth.)

The checklist of demanding situations dealing with society is never-ending. quite a few monetary and social difficulties have an effect on the realm and person international locations. and so they have an effect on states, counties, towns, or even college districts and local coverage councils. it is time for clean considering and new rules within the public area; it is time for extra civic-minded humans to get entangled by means of operating for—and winning—elected workplace.

Run for Elected Office—and Win indicates you the way. it truly is designed to assist readers make a favorable impression at the global and within the groups within which they dwell. It starts off with find out how to come to a decision to run for a selected place of work and ends with tips on how to continue with a winning political career—and it covers every thing else in among. This booklet is helping readers:

  • Learn the bits and bobs of successful an election—from an writer who is performed it!
  • Understand find out how to plan and time table a political crusade
  • Employ the facility of social media in gaining identify popularity
  • Learn how much cash it takes to run a crusade and what it relatively takes to win

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Game-theoretic Models of the Political Influence of Interest by Randolph Sloof

By Randolph Sloof

In this bankruptcy the subject of this publication is brought. part 1. 1 offers a quick and relatively normal motivation for the clinical venture undertaken the following. curiosity teams are a truly renowned item of medical inquiry, and so they got already substantial study recognition from students in political technological know-how, in addition to from researchers in economics. unavoidably, then, this ebook provides to a literature that is already rather constructed. a close positioning during this literature of the theoretical fabric awarded during this monograph might be given in bankruptcy 2. This moment bankruptcy also will, by way of a evaluate of the empirical literature, offer a extra basic review of the problems deemed to be very important while learning the effect of curiosity teams on public coverage. the description of the full e-book is defined in higher element in part 1. 2. As so much matters concerned are extra simply provided in later chapters, this introductory bankruptcy is saved short. 1. 1 MOTIVATION monstrous political strength is frequently attributed to curiosity teams. Examples abound in either the economics and political technological know-how literature, in addition to in journalistic debts and renowned guides. On many events the authors show matters in regards to the adverse effect of curiosity teams at the democratic caliber of presidency. "The pursuits of a small staff are served on the rate of the pursuits of most people, the taxpayers!", is a regularly heard renowned complaint.

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Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy by John Fund

By John Fund

The Florida Fiasco of 2000, with striking chads, butterfly ballots and ultimate court docket intervention, pressured american citizens to confront an unpleasant truth. The U.S. has the sloppiest election structures of any industrialized country, so sloppy that a minimum of 8 of the nineteen hijackers who attacked the realm alternate heart and the Pentagon have been really in a position to sign in to vote in both Virginia or Florida whereas they made their lethal arrangements for 9-11. In "Stealing Elections," John Fund takes the reader on a countrywide travel of voter fraud scandals starting from rural states like Texas and Mississippi to special towns resembling Philadelphia and Milwaukee. He explores darkish episodes similar to the way in which "vote agents" stole a mayoral election in Miami in 1998 by way of tampering with 4700 absentee ballots. He indicates how, within the aftermath of the Motor Voter legislations of 1993, Californians used mail-in varieties to get absentee ballots for fictitious humans and pets, whereas in St. Louis it used to be came across that voter rolls integrated 13,000 extra names than the U.S. Census indexed because the overall variety of adults within the urban. Election officers are attempting to reassure citizens via turning to automated vote casting machines. yet Fund indicates that with the hot know-how come even larger matters. Early in 2004, for example, the nation of Maryland, which has 16,000 new Diebold machines, commissioned a safety specialist to aim to rig a tradition election. He and his staff broke into the pc on the country Board of Elections, thoroughly replaced the result of the election, left, and erased their digital trail—all in less than 5 mins. "Stealing Elections" supplies us a chilling portrait of our electoral vulnerability--in the 2004 presidential election and on into the long run. Writing with urgency and authority, John Fund exhibits how a deadly mix of bureaucratic bungling and poll rigging have placed our democracy in danger.

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Atlantic Reverberations: French Representations of an by Paul C, Dr Adams

By Paul C, Dr Adams

The 2004 US election supplied the French media and its voters with a springboard for reconceiving 'self' and 'Other'. Given its popular competition to fresh US overseas coverage, corresponding to the invasion of Iraq; volley of insults and caustic feedback reverberated among France and the USA, with French observers linking the Bush administration's rules to specific teams and areas in the US, to a democratic deficit, to a perceived probability people cave in and to the necessity for an improved Europe. by means of studying how the French media - newspapers, tv, the net and scholarly learn - represented the election from a severe geopolitical point of view, this booklet presents the 1st significant in-depth learn of perspectives of the USA in modern overseas media.

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The Making of the President 1960 (Harper Perennial Political by Theodore H. White

By Theodore H. White

A Harper Perennial Political vintage, The Making of the President 1960 is the groundbreaking nationwide bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the 1960 presidential crusade and the election of John F. Kennedy. With this narrative heritage of yank politics in motion, Theodore White revolutionized the way in which presidential campaigns are stated. Now again in print, freshly repackaged, and with a brand new foreword written by means of Robert Dallek, The Making of the President 1960 continues to be the main influential e-book concerning the election of John F. Kennedy.

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Majority Judgment: Measuring, Ranking, and Electing by Michel Balinski, Rida Laraki

By Michel Balinski, Rida Laraki

This is often a tremendous ebook destined to impress substantial controversy. encouraged by way of a deep knowing of perform -- score scholars, skaters, wines -- it is going past impossibility theorems to constructively problem the dominant method of the layout of vote casting tactics with a brand new idea, supported by means of vast experimental proof. Martin Shubik , Seymour Knox Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics, Yale college

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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In by Bernie Sanders

By Bernie Sanders

The ny instances bestseller!

When Bernie Sanders started his race for the presidency, it used to be thought of via the political institution and the media to be a “fringe” crusade, whatever to not be taken heavily. in the end, he was once simply an autonomous senator from a small nation with little identify popularity. His crusade had no funds, no political association, and it was once taking over the whole Democratic occasion institution.

By the time Sanders’s crusade got here to a detailed, besides the fact that, it was once transparent that the pundits had gotten it improper. Bernie had run the most consequential campaigns within the glossy historical past of the rustic. He had acquired greater than thirteen million votes in primaries and caucuses during the nation, received twenty-two states, and greater than 1.4 million humans had attended his public conferences. most vital, he confirmed that the yankee humans have been ready to tackle the greed and irresponsibility of company the USA and the 1 percent.

In Our Revolution, Sanders stocks his own reports from the crusade path, recounting the main points of his ancient fundamental struggle and the folks who made it attainable. And for the thousands trying to proceed the political revolution, he outlines a innovative monetary, environmental, racial, and social justice time table that might create jobs, bring up wages, defend the surroundings, and supply wellbeing and fitness take care of all―and finally remodel our nation and our global for the higher. For him, the political revolution has simply all started. The crusade could be over, however the fight is going on.

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Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign by Jonathan Allen

By Jonathan Allen

It was once by no means imagined to be this shut. and naturally she used to be speculated to win. How Hillary Clinton misplaced the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic tale of a definite factor long gone off the rails. for each Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment in regards to the citizens, no clarification of defeat can start with something except the center challenge of Hillary's campaign--the candidate herself.

Through deep entry to insiders from the pinnacle to the ground of the crusade, political writers Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes have reconstructed the main judgements and unseized possibilities, the well-intentioned misfires and the hidden thorns that grew to become a winnable contest right into a devastating loss. Drawing at the authors' deep wisdom of Hillary from their earlier booklet, the acclaimed biography HRC, Shattered will supply an item lesson in how Hillary herself made victory an uphill conflict, how her hassle articulating a imaginative and prescient irreparably hobbled her influence with citizens, and the way the crusade didn't internalize the teachings of populist fury from the hard-fought fundamental opposed to Bernie Sanders.

Moving blow-by-blow from the campaign's tricky delivery in the course of the bewildering terror of election evening, Shattered tells an unforgettable tale with pressing classes either political and private, choked with revelations that would switch the best way readers comprehend simply what occurred to the US on November eight, 2016.

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How Voters Decide: Information Processing in Election by Richard R. Lau

By Richard R. Lau

This e-book makes an attempt to redirect the sector of vote casting habit study through providing a paradigm-shifting framework for learning voter determination making. An leading edge experimental technique is gifted for purchasing 'inside the heads' of electorate as they confront the overpowering rush of knowledge from sleek presidential election campaigns. 4 wide theoretically-defined forms of determination techniques that citizens hire to aid make a decision which candidate to aid are defined and operationally-defined. person and campaign-related components that lead citizens to undertake one or one other of those thoughts are tested. most significantly, this examine proposes a brand new normative concentration for the medical research of balloting habit: we should always care approximately not only which candidate got the main votes, but additionally what number electorate voted effectively - that's, according to their very own fully-informed personal tastes.

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