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From a strange, dark chapter in American political history comes the captivating story of Ted Kennedy's 1980 campaign for president against the incumbent Jimmy Carter, told in full for the first time. The Carter presidency was on life support. The Democrats, desperate...
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Twelve
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2019-01-22
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Read the inspiring Sunday Times bestselling memoir from the first woman, and woman of colour, to serve as Vice President of the United States.The daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists, Vice President Kamala Harris was raised in a California community that...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-01-17
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Electoral democracy combines the ideas and practices of warfare and welfare, where both work in tandem as near synonyms. India’s robust electoral democracy exemplifies this combination in diverse forms. Critically analysing the 2014 Parliamentary elections beyond the...
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OUP India
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2018-12-24
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The history of the most acrimonious presidential handoff in American history -- and of the origins of twentieth-century liberalism and conservatism As historian Eric Rauchway shows in Winter War, FDR laid out coherent, far-ranging plans for the New Deal in the months...
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Basic Books
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2018-11-20
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Das neu gegründete Mouvement Démocrate versuchte 2007 als Hyperzentrum die Tradition der unterschiedlichen französischen Zentrumsparteien wiederaufleben zu lassen. Durch einen Strategie- und Organisationswandel sollten die Bipolarisierung der Politik in Frankreich...
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Springer VS
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2018-11-11
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The process of electoral change is accelerating in contemporary democracies, and this book explains why.The emergence of Green parties in the 1980s and recent far right parties, Brexit and Trump's 2016 victory are parts of this overall process.
Political Realignment...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-10
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Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The Republican Party meets in Miami and picks Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the Democrats back Lyndon Johnson's...
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Penguin
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2018-11-01
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The story of Andrew Jackson's improbable ascent to the White House, centered on the handlers and propagandists who made it possible Andrew Jackson was volatile and prone to violence, and well into his forties his sole claim on the public's affections derived from his...
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Basic Books
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2018-10-23
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The process of electoral change is accelerating in contemporary democracies, and this book explains why.The emergence of Green parties in the 1980s and recent far right parties, Brexit and Trump's 2016 victory are parts of this overall process.
Political Realignment...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-18
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Is social media destroying democracy? Are...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-09-17
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Even before the 2016 presidential election took place, groups and individuals angry at Donald Trump, and frightened about what a Trump presidency could mean, were taking to the streets. After the election, and particularly after he inaugural, the protests continued....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-07-30
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The methodologies used to study public opinion are now in flux.The primary polling method of the last half-century, the telephone survey, is rapidly becoming obsolete as a data collection method. At the same time, new methods of contacting potential respondents and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-07-25
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The shocking election of President Trump spawned myriad analyses and post-mortems, but they consistently underestimate the crucial role of the Tea Party on the GOP and Republican House members specifically. In Reactionary Republicanism, Bryan T. Gervais and Irwin L....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-07-23
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This book confronts the threats of epistemic relativism and Pyrrhonian scepticism to analytic philosophy. Epistemic relativists reject absolute notions of knowledge and justification, while sceptics claim that knowledge and justification of any kind are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-21
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From Haryana to Gujarat to Maharashtra, numerous Indian states have been witness to protests by backward classes pressing for quotas and reservations. In stark contrast is the exemplary case of Tamil Nadu, which has managed to effectively integrate economic and...
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OUP India
Parution :
2018-06-26
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Vor dem Hintergrund der dynamischen Veränderungen des Europäischen Integrationsprozess der letzten Jahre, beschäftigt sich Alena Kerscher mit der grundlegenden Frage: Wie gestaltet sich der Handlungsraum christdemokratischer Parteien in Westeuropa zum Thema Europäische...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2018-05-31
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Empirische Studien zur Parteienforschung
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IAN BREMMER WAS NAMED LINKEDIN'S #1 TOP INFLUENCER in 2017--------------'Required reading to help repair a world in pieces and build a world at peace' - António Guterres, United Nations Secretary General --------------'Ian Bremmer is provocative, controversial, and...
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Penguin
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2018-04-24
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Elena Frech addresses the issue of candidate (re-)selection for the European elections. Studying German parties, the author investigates both, the rules and practice of candidate selection. The study is one of the first to shed light on the goals political parties...
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Springer VS
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2018-04-03
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No subject is more central to the study of politics than elections. All across the globe, elections are a focal point for citizens, the media, and politicians long before--and sometimes long after--they occur. Electoral systems, the rules about how voters' preferences...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-03-15
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Im Vorfeld der eidgenössischen Wahlen 2011 wurde erstmals in der Schweiz ein Rolling Cross-Section Survey realisiert. Thomas De Rocchi nutzt die damit erhobenen Daten, um kurzfristige Einstellungs- und Präferenzänderungen der Wählerschaft im Verlauf der Kampagne zu...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-02-26
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