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The key to the impact of international election support is credibility; credible elections are less likely to turn violent. So argues Inken von Borzyskowski in The Credibility Challenge, in which she provides an explanation of why and when election support can increase or reduce violence. Von Borzyskowski answers four major questions: Under what circumstances can election support influence election violence? How can election support shape the incentives...
482) The Commander-in-Chief Test: Public Opinion and the Politics of Image-Making in US Foreign Policy
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In The Commander-in-Chief Test, Jeffrey A. Friedman offers a fresh explanation for why Americans are often frustrated by the cost and scope of US foreign policy-and how we can fix that for the future.
Americans frequently criticize US foreign policy for being overly costly and excessively militaristic. With its rising defense budgets and open-ended "forever wars," US foreign policy often appears disconnected from public opinion, reflecting the views...
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Since obtaining independence in 1957, Malaysia has had two historic general elections, the first in 2018 and the second in 2022. The 2018 election brought the reformist Pakatan Harapan government into power. Due to both internal and external machinations, the Pakatan Harapan administration collapsed 22 months later. Subsequently, more than two years of socio-political instability ensued, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, economic hardships, and...
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Sarah Birch is professor of political science in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London. Her books include Electoral Malpractice and Full Participation.
A comprehensive look at how violence has been used to manipulate competitive electoral processes around the world since World War II
Throughout their history, political elections have been threatened by conflict, and the use of force has in the past several decades been an...
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From a certain perspective, the biggest political story of 2016 was how the candidate who bought three-quarters of the political ads lost to the one whose every provocative tweet set the agenda for the day's news coverage. With the arrival of Bot Farms, micro targeted Facebook ads, and Cambridge Analytica, isn't the age of political ads on local TV coming to a close?
You might think. But you'd be wrong to the tune of $4.4 billion just in 2016. In...
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Mind control. Satanic rituals. Unspeakable sexual perversions. Supervillains eating children's brains. A divine mandate to keep Donald Trump in the White House, no matter what.
This surreal combination of horror-movie shocks and fascist marching orders is the signature of QAnon, which emerged from the dark corners of the internet in 2017 and soon became the galvanizing force behind Trump supporters, both during Trump's presidency and in the volatile,...
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2022, année électorale en France.
La France est lessivée.
Les projets politiques sont déprimants de platitude.
La rupture entre le Peuple et ses édiles est consommée.
Après avoir servi la France sans moufter pendant près de 40 ans en bon Hussard de la République, Gille en a marre.
Ce pamphlet est son cri de désespoir.
De révolte également.
D'espérance aussi.
Il exprime son ressenti de citoyen, sans artefact sociologisant....
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The flaws in the American electoral process have become more apparent over many years. The contemporary tipping point in public awareness occurred during the 2000 election count, but several major structural weaknesses exacerbated doubts in the 2016 campaign, worsening party divisions and further corroding public trust in the electoral process. It is impossible to fix a problem without understanding its nature. To gather independent evidence about...
489) The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communication, Representation, and Democratic Accountability
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Justin Grimmer is associate professor of political science at Stanford University. He is the author of Representational Style. Sean J. Westwood is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. Solomon Messing is a research scientist with Facebook's Data Science Team.
Constituents often fail to hold their representatives accountable for federal spending decisions-even though those very choices...
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During presidential campaigns, candidates crisscross the country nonstop-visiting swing states, their home turf, and enemy territory. But do all those campaign visits make a difference when Election Day comes? If so, how and under what conditions? Do they mobilize the partisan faithful or persuade undecided voters? What do campaigns try to achieve through campaign visits-and when do they succeed?
I'm Here to Ask for Your Vote is a comprehensive and...
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An insightful assessment of Jefferson's defeat of Adams in the 1800 election, and how it represented a blow against elitism and authoritarianism.
In this brilliant historical classic, Dan Sisson provides the definitive window into key concepts that have formed the backdrop of our democracy: the nature of revolution, stewardship of power, liberty, and the ever-present danger of factions and tyranny. Most contemporary historians celebrate Jefferson's...
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Incumbents enjoy many advantages when they seek reelection, but their
distinct disadvantages (such as not fulfilling promises or staying
within the status quo) are ripe weaknesses for opposing candidates to
knock them down. Studying the US's Barack Obama, Ukraine's Volodymyr
Zelensky, and France's Emmanuel Macron, among many other candidates,
political strategist Louis Perron, PhD, describes tactics to assess the
strength of the incumbent, the...
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In Political Communication Strategies in Post-independence Jamaica, 1972—2006, Floyd E. Morris analyses some of the factors that contribute to apathy among citizens towards the political process by focusing on the communication strategies used by leaders and their administrations. He examines the relationship between leaders and the wider society they seek to influence, the communication methods and techniques that have been deployed in the exercise...
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Brexit. Trump. Ford Nation. In this timely book, David Moscrop asks why we make irrational political decisions and whether our stone-age brains can process democracy in the information age.
In an era overshadowed by income inequality, environmental catastrophes, terrorism at home and abroad, and the decline of democracy, Moscrop argues that the political decision-making process has never been more important. In fact, our survival may depend on it.
Drawing...
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"Winner of the 2013 Best Book Award, Urban Politics Organized Section of the American Political Science Association" .J. Eric Oliver is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. Shang E. Ha is assistant professor of political science at Brooklyn College. Zachary Callen is assistant professor of political science at Allegheny College
Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth...
496) Indecent Assembly: The North Carolina Legislature's Blueprint for the War on Democracy and Equality
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North Carolina has, since 2013, undergone a greater political sea change than any other state. For the first time, seven years ago, state government became completely captured by a radicalized and aggressive Republican leadership determined to produce the most ultra-conservative political regime in the nation. In a remarkably brief time span, Republican lawmakers have moved successfully toward that goal. The New York Times refers to the project as...
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The must-read summary of Evan Thomas's book: "A Long Time Coming: The Inspiring 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama".
This complete summary of "A Long Time Coming" by Evan Thomas, a bestselling American author and renowned political journalist, presents his experiences working within Obama's presidential campaign, with fascinating information about what really happens behind the closed doors of politics and how to run a memorable...
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Jan E. Leighley is professor of political science at American University. She is the author of Strength in Numbers?: The Political Mobilization of Racial and Ethnic Minorities (Princeton) and Mass Media and Politics: A Social Science Perspective. Jonathan Nagler is professor of politics at New York University. He is an inaugural fellow of the Society for Political Methodology.
Who Votes Now? compares the demographic characteristics and political...
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Perú cuenta por primera vez en su historia con un presidente campesino, maestro rural, rondero y dirigente sindical. Este libro reflexiona sobre las causas y motivaciones que están detrás de la elección de Pedro Castillo como presidente del Perú. Se trata de seis ensayos escritos por investigadores del Instituto de Estudios Peruanos de diferentes disciplinas académicas: antropólogos, sociólogos, politólogos e historiadores. Escrito con un...
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Hillary is up in the polls! Hillary is down in the polls! She's a feminist and women love her; she's an enabler and women hate her. She's brilliant and hardworking; she's entitled and untrustworthy. Sounds like Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2016 or even 2008 presidential campaign, right? Well, go back even farther to the year 2000 to discover how every one of those phrases was uttered during Hillary's very first campaign when she made history as the only...
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