Political Science : Political Process - Elections

In the Land of Mirrors is a journey through the politics of Cuban exiles since the 1959 Cuban Revolution. It explores the development of Cuban exile politics......

Honesty in voting, it turns out, is not always the best policy. Indeed, in the early 1970s, Allan Gibbard and Mark Satterthwaite, building on the seminal wor......

During the middle of the nineteenth century, Americans voted in saloons in the most derelict sections of great cities, in hamlets swarming with Union soldier......

Voters today often desert a preferred candidate for a more viable second choice to avoid wasting their vote. Likewise, parties to a dispute often find themse......

" . . . truly an intellectual tour de force. Even the reader who doesn't agree with all of Warwick's conclusions can't fail to recognize what a tremendous co......

The presidency was neither designed nor expected to act in concert with the American people; the Framers intended Congress to represent the popular will. Tha......

A comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election that ended the 12-year reign in Canadian politics. Publisher: Dundurn Illustration: N L......

On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since t......

This book offers a critical re-evaluation of three fundamental and interlocking themes in American democracy: the relationship between race and politics, the......

A vivid portrait of the election that shaped modern America Author: Pietrusza, David Publisher: Basic Books Illustration: N Language: ENG Title: 1920: The Y......

A History of Mud-Slinging, Character Assassination, And Other Election Strategies—Revised and Updated for 2012!  Today’s political pundits......

Going Dirty is a history of negative campaigning in American politics and an examination of how candidates and political consultants have employed this often......

In 2010, Arthur Lieber ran for Congress in Missouri's 2nd Congressional District when no other Democrat would. Operating on a budget considered minuscul......

Why don't more women run for office? Why are certain states more likely to have female candidates and representatives? Would strengthening political parties ......

The 2012 election will be one of the hardest-fought in U.S. history. It is also likely to be one of the closest, a fact that brings concerns about voter fraud...

L'histoire du Congo, depuis 1885, est parsemée de tragédies: dix millions de mort pendant la colonisation belge, assassinat politique de Patrice Lumumba le p......

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Palin smashed through some of the most enduring barriers to high political office, but their exceptional candidacies......

Passed in 1965 during the height of the Civil Rights movement, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) changed the face of the American electorate, dramatically increasi......

It's a common complaint that a presidential candidate's style matters more than substance and that the issues have been eclipsed by mass-media-fueled obsessi......

Although the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of the election itself has been ......