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Are election campaigns relevant to policymaking, as they should in a democracy?
This book sheds new light on this central democratic concern based on an ambitious study of democratic mandates through the lens of agenda-setting in five West European countries since the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-01
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This book systematically maps the evolution of the party–voter nexus of the United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). In doing so, it argues that these parties rely mostly on a complex Web of patronage-based networks to mobilise electorates. They...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-20
Collection :
Politics of South Asia
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Bestselling author Newt Gingrich exposes the anti-American forces that have grown so large and so aggressive in their quest for power in this national bestseller. The struggle between the defenders of America as an exceptional nation and the forces of...
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Center Street
Parution :
2021-11-02
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Based on extensive reporting, a Game of Thrones-like telling of what comes next for the factions and families within the Republican Party as they plot for supremacy in the post-Trump era. With Trump’s four years in the White House now in the rearview, an...
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Twelve
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2021-10-19
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A long-held belief of political scientists is that moderate voices in the Senate act as power brokers between the ideological poles, yet year after year we see partisan gridlock in Congress. Some even argue that the shrinking number of moderates only increases their...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-28
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This book aims to explain why some presidents are more successful than others in winning the support of legislators during periods of unified government.This book covers five presidential and semi-presidential systems such as France, Indonesia, Mexico, Taiwan, and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-28
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Presidential Politics
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A consistently surprising analysis of how and why the Republican Party imploded in the last decade, setting the stage for the rise of Trump and extremist candidates more generally.
In Crackup, the eminent American politics scholar Samuel L. Popkin tells the story of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-19
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Big data and microtargeting steal the headlines about campaigning. But how important are they really to the way that political parties campaign? This book provides a fine-grained account of the campaign practices of three Australian political parties. It explores how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-15
Collection :
Political Campaigning and Communication
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Election interference is one of the most widely discussed international phenomena of the last five years. Russian covert interference in the 2016 U.S. PresidentialElection elevated the topic into a national priority, but that experience was far from an isolated one....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-29
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A prize-winning political scientist untangles the deep roots of tribalism in America.American politics seems to be in an unprecedented uproar. But in this revelatory work of political history, James A. Morone shows that today's rancor isn't what's new -- the clarity of...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2020-09-08
ePub
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Political Action Committees (PACs) are a prominent and contentious feature of modern American election campaigns. As organizations that channel money toward political candidates and causes, their influence in recent decades has been widely noted and often decried. Yet,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-09-01
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The #MeToo movement has catalyzed an international discussion about the routine challenges women face in their professional lives as a result of male-dominated industries and office cultures. These include well-documented cases of sexual harassment and assault, but also...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-08-18
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An MSNBC political analyst and former Hillary Clinton staffer examines the past and present problems of the Left—and makes a compelling case for how to take back our government and secure a better future for America.In the entire history of the United States of...
Editeur :
Legacy Lit
Parution :
2020-07-07
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New York Times bestselling author Newt Gingrich explores the lasting impact of the 2020 election on the lives of American citizens today. The election will be a decisive choice for America, especially as we emerge from the coronavirus crisis. Will the American...
Editeur :
Center Street
Parution :
2020-06-23
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Congressional debates are increasingly defined by gridlock and stalemate, with partisan showdowns that lead to government shutdowns. Compromise in Congress seems hard to reach, but do politicians deserve all the blame? Legislators who refuse to compromise might be doing...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-06-04
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In advance of the 2020 election, legal scholar Lawrence Douglas prepares readers for a less-than-peaceful transition of power. It doesn't require a strong imagination to get a sense of the mayhem Trump will unleash if he loses a closely contested election. It is no less...
Editeur :
Twelve
Parution :
2020-05-19
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Bangladesh: A Suffering People Under State Terrorism explores the destructive political situation in Bangladesh under the one-party and one-person rule of the despotic Sheikh Hasina. The contributors to this edited collection examine the catastrophic political...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-20
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The theoretical goal of the research presented in this book was to include elements of social network analysis into the classical neo-institutional theories of the government coalition formation process.The empirical goal was to verify the benefits and accuracy of this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-30
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Recent elections in the advanced western democracies have undermined the basic foundations of political systems that had previously beaten back all challenges -- from both the left and the right. The election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency, only months after the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-02-28
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