Author: GRAFSTEIN/WEN (EDS) Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Can China and the United States bridge their political differences? Are those differences as large as conventional wisdom suggests? Thirty years after formal U.S.-Chinese diplomatic relations were est...
Author: Ramsay, Richard Publisher: Paragon Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book documents Scottish by-elections since the war - the facts, figures, personalities, successes, failures and the many indiscretions. This comprehensive account includes all by-election numbers...
Author: Merrill, III, Samuel / Grofman, Bernard Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book addresses the questions: how do voters use their own issue positions and those of candidates to decide how to vote? Does a voter tend to choose the candidate who most closely shares the view...
Author: Jagoda, Karen A.B. Publisher: E-Voter Institute Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The web is here to stay in political and advocacy campaigns and voters are forever changed in how they think about candidates and causes. About Face: The Dramatic Impact of the Internet on Politics...
Author: Ehteshami, Anoushiravan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first analytical study of post-Khomeini Iran to look at crucial policy changes since 1979. Ehteshami argues that Iran is not the threat portrayed by the west, but is capable of emerging as...
Author: Samuels, David Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ambition theory suggests that scholars can understand a good deal about politics by exploring politicians' career goals. In the US, an enormous literature explains congressional politics by assuming t...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: America at Risk gathers original essays by a distinguished and bipartisan group of writers and intellectuals to address a question that matters to Americans of every political persuasion: what are som...
Author: Bensel, Richard Franklin Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: During the middle of the nineteenth century, Americans voted in saloons in the most derelict sections of great cities, in hamlets swarming with Union soldiers, or in wooden cabins so isolated that eve...
Author: Thomson, Alex Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The third edition of An Introduction to African Politics continues to be the ideal textbook for those new to the study of this fascinating continent. It gets to the heart of the politics of this part ...
Author: Martin, George B. Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The successful 2008 presidential campaign by Barack Obama used the internet as a campaign tool on a scale previously unseen. Thanks to the campaign's savvy use of the internet, hundreds of thousands o...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book invites readers to join in a fresh and extensive investigation of one of Ancient Greece’s greatest inventions: democratic government.Provides an accessible, up-to-date survey of vital ...
Author: Lawless, Jennifer L. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Becoming a Candidate: Political Ambition and the Decision to Run for Office explores the factors that drive political ambition at the earliest stages. Using data from a comprehensive survey of thousan...
Author: Maddox, William / Lilie, Stuart Publisher: Cato Institute Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Politicians and political analysts continue to use a single liberal-conservative dimension to analyze the ideological views of the American people, but that approach is increasingly inadequate. Profes...
Author: Richardson, Ian / Kakabadse, Andrew / Kakabadse, Nada Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Bilderberg People explores the hidden mechanisms of influence at work in the private world, and personal interactions, of the transnational power elite. It is not concerned with conspiracy theories; i...
Author: Richardson, Ian / Kakabadse, Andrew / Kakabadse, Nada Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bilderberg People explores the hidden mechanisms of influence at work in the private world, and personal interactions, of the transnational power elite. It is not concerned with conspiracy theories; i...
Author: Posner, Richard A. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The 2000 Presidential election ended in a collision of history, law, and the courts. It produced a deadlock that dragged out the result for over a month, and consequences--real and imagined--that prom...
Author: N/A Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book deals with the important subject of governance and development. Even more significantly, the book has the merits of critically evaluating the concept of good governance in an African context...
Author: Krieger, Milton Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cameroon's Social Democratic Front (SDF) was among the watershed challenges in 1990 by sub-Saharan Africa's democratization forces against autocratic regimes, but it crested in 1992 and has subsided s...
Author: Franz, Michael M. / Freedman, Paul B. / Goldstein, Kenneth M. Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It has been estimated that more than three million political ads were televised leading up to the elections of 2004. More than $800,000,000 was spent on TV ads in the race for the White House alone an...
Author: Pelosi, Christine Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Christine Pelosi's boot camps for political candidates showcase techniques in management, message, money, and mobilization that helped win Congress back for the Democrats in 2006 and made her mother t...
Author: Pelosi, Christine Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Former director of the Young Democrats of America, the California Democratic Party and HUD Special Counsel to the Clinton-Gore administration, Christine Pelosi updates her classic leadership guide for...
Description: Former director of the Young Democrats of America, the California Democratic Party and HUD Special Counsel to the Clinton-Gore administration, Christine Pelosi updates her classic leadership guide for...
Author: Smith, Melissa M. Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For decades, campaign finance reform has been an on-going topic of discussion. In particular, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) was heralded as a major breakthrough in controlling the ...
Author: Shaw, Catherine Publisher: Westview Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Featuring invaluable insight from an expert author, The Campaign Manager offers the most comprehensive guide for organizing, funding, publicizing, and winning local political campaigns. Author Catheri...
Author: Hart, Roderick P. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Roderick Hart may be among the few Americans who believe that what politicians say in a campaign actually matters. He also believes that campaigns work. Even as television coverage, political ads, and...
Author: Smyth, Regina Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the early 1990s, competitive elections in the Russian Federation signaled the end to the authoritarian political system dominated by a single political party. More than ten years and many elections...
Author: Yongnian, Zheng Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines the development of the non-state sector and NGOs in China since the onset of reform in the late 1970s. It explores the major issues facing China's non-state sector today, assesses t...
Author: Franz, Michael Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Choices and Changes is the most comprehensive examination to date of the impact of interest groups on recent American electoral politics. Richly informed, theoretically and empirically, it is the firs...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the companion volume to "Political Catholicism in Europe 1918-1945." Christian Democratic (CD) parties became the dominant political force in post-war Western Europe, and the European People's...
Author: Steven, Martin Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Christianity and Party Politics aims to discuss and evaluate the contemporary relationship between party politics and religion. The book focuses on the important role of the Church in both electoral p...
Author: Frantzich, Stephen E. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Apathy and antipathy toward politics are epidemic. Citizen Democracy provides the antidote. In this revised and updated edition, Stephen E. Frantzich portrays citizens from every walk of life--rich an...
Author: Cavatorta, Francesco Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book examines civil society in the Arab world and how authoritarian constraints impact on democratization. It includes case studies from across the region and analyses the divisions between Islam...
Author: Sater, James N. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Taking Morocco as its focus, this book looks at the political change in the country since 1990. It places particular emphasis on key topics, such as civil society, human rights and reform, as vital is...
Author: Siaroff, Alan Publisher: Garland Science Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the party systems of the whole continent of Europe. This work also includes case studies of the Baltic States and Balkan democracies and goes as far east...
Author: Lipsitz, Keena Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this original analysis of political communication, Keena Lipsitz argues that highly contested electoral battles create campaign information environments that allow citizens to make enlightened choi...
Author: Warner, Carolyn M. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Following World War II, the Catholic Church in Europe faced the challenge of establishing political influence with newly emerging democratic governments. The Church became, as Carolyn Warner pointedly...
Author: Shin, Doh Chull Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For decades, scholars and politicians have vigorously debated whether Confucianism is compatible with democracy, yet little is known about how it affects the process of democratization in East Asia. I...
Author: McLaren, Lauren M. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Offers an introduction to the politics of Italy, Spain and Turkey, providing a comparative case study analysis of why democratization outcomes vary across the three countries.
Author: Magone, José Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The unification of the European continent since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the collapse of communist regimes in central and eastern Europe has changed the nature of European politics. Thi...
Author: Tilly, Charles Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000 is an analysis of the relationship between democratization and contentious politics that builds upon the model set forth in the pathbreaking book, Dynamic...
Author: Hook, Glenn D. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it.
Author: Eisenstadt, Todd A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The most comprehensive explanation to date of Mexico's gradual transition to democracy, written from a novel perspective which pits opposition activists' post-electoral conflicts against their usage o...
Author: SHECKELS, THEODORE F Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cracked But Not Shattered: Hillary Rodham Clinton's Unsuccessful Campaign for the Presidency thoroughly analyzes Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination with...
