Catalog Search Results
Author
Description
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...
Author
Description
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...
Author
Description
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.
Author
Description
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...
Author
Description
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...
Author
Description
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...
Author
Description
Manuel Campo Vidal relata los entresijos de los grandes debates electorales de la historia reciente de España, el género político y periodístico más arriesgado y decisivo que existe.
Los debates electorales son una de las pruebas más exigentes de la comunicación política contemporánea. Los candidatos a gobernar las instituciones aparecen juntos en el clímax de la campaña, sin más guión que un orden de temas pactado y ante un moderador...
Author
Description
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...
Author
Description
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....
Author
Description
Revenge of America's Unemployed captures the shifting mood of the unemployed, underemployed and uncounted. More than 30 million Americans lost their jobs, saw their pay slashed or left the workforce during the Great Recession. Many lost their homes, marriages, savings, self-esteem and self-confidence and, finally, their patience with a political elite that could not deliver on their promises of jobs, jobs, jobs. This book chronicles the passions that...
Author
Description
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...
Author
Description
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...
Author
Description
"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...
75) El modelo de listas de votación cerradas y bloqueadas en el sistema electoral mexicano y su carácter
Author
Description
Actualmente, se aplican dos fórmulas de elección política: una por mayoría; y otra, denominada de representación proporcional, donde en proporción directa al porcentaje de votos de cada partido, se le asigna una proporción denominada plurinominales. La autora de esta obra presenta cuál de las dos fórmulas es más apropiada para lograr la configuración de un sistema verdaderamente democrático.
Author
Description
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...
77) Why Hillary Lost
Author
Description
Hillary Clinton's 2016 loss to Donald Trump was one of the most shocking defeats in American political history. Polls predicted a Clinton landslide. Even Trump's own party leaders withdrew their endorsements. In Why Hillary Lost, political strategist Arvin Vohra illuminates the cultural changes and strategic considerations that led to the shocking results. He examines how changes in cultural outreach strategy and political expectations, coupled with...
Author
Description
"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...
79) Dead Man Running
Author
Description
Did you ever wonder what running for an elective office like Congress is really all about?
Running for Congress is a world all unto its own, and in today's divided America, it's not for the faint of heart. Dead Man Running clearly shows what can be expected on a personal level in a high-stakes political race. A candidate has to understand the arrows coming at him are unrelenting and dangerous, but it's the arrows that come from behind that can do...
Author
Description
Running for the People? Is an insider's account of Canada's electoral process that reveals how deeply broken it is. Rem Westland ran in the 2011 federal election, representing the Conservative Party of Canada in the riding of Ottawa-Vanier. He describes the weakness of electoral district associations, the presumptions of party headquarters, the intricacies of campaign financing, and contemporary data-based systems that depersonalize politics at ground...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Flagstaff City Coconino County Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request