Elections & Political Process
epub |eng | | Author:Frank J. DiStefano

American culture rocks back and forth like a pendulum between pragmatic eras and moralistic ones. Sometimes America is a practical country focused on negotiating over interests, policies, and results—concrete things ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism May 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-12 | Author:Robin Renwick [Robin Renwick]

‘NO PUBLIC DISSONANCE’ Following meetings of the National Working Committee packed with unconditional Zuma supporters on 4/5 April, the Secretary General, Gwede Mantashe, leading the climbdown, announced the collapse of ...
( Category: Leadership May 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-12 | Author:Przeworski, Adam;

Because self-interested speech – speech that can be predicted from interests – is not credible, claims of fraud made by defeated opponents must be taken with a grain of salt. ...
( Category: Elections May 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:Eitan D. Hersh [Hersh, Eitan D.]

Figure 6.1 Importance of Voters’ Race to Campaign Mobilizers in Different Data Environments. Note: Data from Ground Campaign Project. Data generated from 187 campaign workers in states with racial registration ...
( Category: Elections May 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-22 | Author:David Moscrop

Speed Let’s start with speed. The milieu of twenty-first-century Western democracies is marked by a pace of life never seen in human history. To a person born in, say, the ...
( Category: Elections May 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-11 | Author:Al From

Twelve The Pre-Campaign 1991 In the May 1991 issue we changed the name of our magazine from the Mainstream Democrat to the New Democrat. Announcing the change, editor Bruce Reed ...
( Category: Elections May 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Alain Badiou

Figure 1 The global democratic system – that is, the constitutional system in our world, the system with elections, representation, and so on – is the idea that the two ...
( Category: Elections May 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-02 | Author:Morris P. Fiorina [Fiorina, Morris P.]

So independent-leaning Democrats vote Democratic, and independent-leaning Republicans vote Republican, consistent with the covert partisanship view. But suppose in the next election the same four voters report the following patterns: ...
( Category: Political Parties May 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-18 | Author:Larson, Edward J. [Larson, Edward J.]

CHAPTER SEVEN FOR GOD AND PARTY SUMMER was a quiet season in the American political calendar during the early national period. Legislatures traditionally convened in the winter and spring, drawing ...
( Category: Elections April 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-23 | Author:Caroline Fredrickson

THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING Feeling burned by earlier Supreme Court justices who had shown insufficient adherence to the conservative dogma, the Right was ready when Sandra Day O’Connor ...
( Category: Elections April 24,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Sirvent Roberto

US leaders profess a dedication to democracy. Yet over the past five decades, democratically elected reformist governments—guilty of introducing redistributive economic programs—in Guatemala, Guyana, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, ...
( Category: Elections April 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2005-12-26 | Author:Neil Postman & Andrew Postman

7. “Now ... This” The American humorist H. Allen Smith once suggested that of all the worrisome words in the English language, the scariest is “uh oh,” as when a ...
( Category: Media & Internet April 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-08 | Author:Anna Palmer

* * * — That week conservative Republicans went into a closed party meeting in the Capitol and urged leaders to adopt a hard-line proposal penned by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, ...
( Category: Legislative Branch April 9,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Szpiro, George; Szpiro, George G. G.; Szpiro, George G.

Elector 2: Alex > Dick > Carl > Bob Elector 3: Alex > Bob > Dick > Carl Elector 4: Alex > Bob > Dick > Carl Elector 5: Bob ...
( Category: Elections April 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Keel Hunt [Hunt, Keel]

Conner remembers he was, meanwhile, urging both Dillworth and Bill Hoglund to communicate with Alexander as quickly as possible. “I’m begging them, ‘You’ve got to trust the governor of Tennessee. ...
( Category: Political Parties March 27,2019 )