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GOING NEGATIVE: How Political Ads Shrink and Polarize the Electorate

5 reviews
Stephen Ansolabehere

Free Press, 1996

Going negative: a positive read
Going negative investigates the influence of negative political advertising on American voters. The book breaks old beliefs and describes a disturbing picture of what the future holds if negative ads do not change. Ground breaking and very interesting.

Counting on the Latino Vote: Latinos As a New Electorate (Race and Ethnicity in Urban Politics)
Louis Desipio

University of Virginia Press, 1996

Desipio uses the first national studies of Latino voting patterns to investigate whether this improtant new segment of the electorate engagesin bloc voting.

Political Behavior of the American Electorate

3 reviews
William H. Flanigan, Nancy H. Zingale

CQ Press, 2005

misunderstading the point
OK, the previous reviews are clearly misunderstanding the purpose of such a book. This is essentially a simplified overview of research in political behavior. It's simple, readable, straight forward, etc. Social scientists seek to investigate phenomena that might seem "common sense" in order to find evidence for or against these conclusions. The charts and graphs don't all match because ...

Beethoven: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words, ...

MacMay, 2008

Ludwig van Beethoven (16 December 1770 ? 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most respected and influential composers of all time. Born in Bonn, then in the Electorate of Cologne (now in modern-day Germany), he moved to Vienna in his early twenties and settled there, studying with Joseph ...

The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath

8 reviews
Kevin P. Phillips

Harpercollins, 1991

The conservatives exposed
The myths (or many of them)of the right are given full exposure in this fine book. Well researched and well written, it is a good primer on the delusions of the privledged class (just read some of the other reviews on this page). Over all a significant contribution to the new analysis of conservative revisionism.

Beyond Red State and Blue State: Electoral Gaps in the 21st Century American Electorate (Real Politics in ...
Laura R. Olson, John C. Green

Prentice Hall, 2008

Beyond Red State and Blue State: Electoral Gaps in the 21st Century American Electorate explores the many demographic gaps that exist within the American electorate. It takes students beyond the assumption that American voters are divided into red states and blue states. This book is designed to explore the most important voting gaps in American politics today. It shows that twenty-first-century Americans are divided on a wide range ...

Dissenting Electorate: Those Who Refuse to Vote and the Legitimacy of Their Opposition

2 reviews

McFarland & Company, 2000

Great contribution to political (and anti-political) theory
In a 1984 speech, Wendy McElroy -- a great individualist anarchist and co-editor of this collection -- said, "[I]t has become necessary for individualist anarchism to develop a comprehensive defense of anti-political theory in order to counter the grotesque spectacle of anarchists running for President." In this book, she and her co-editor Carl Watner have taken an important step in this ...

One Electorate Under God?: A Dialogue on Religion and American Politics (Pew Forum Dialogues on Religion & ...
E. J., Jr. Dionne

Brookings Institution Press, 2004

The United States has been described as a nation with the soul of a church. Religion is discussed more explicitly and more urgently in American politics than in the public debates of any other wealthy democracy. It is certain to play an important role in the elections of 2004. Yet debates over religion and politics are often narrow and highly partisan, although the questions at hand demand a broader and more civil discussion. One Electorate ...

Presidential Debates: The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, David S. Birdsell

Oxford University Press, USA, 1990

How important are presidential debates today? To answer this question, the authors place modern debates in their cultural and historical context, tracing their origins and development in the American political tradition, from the eighteenth century to the present, and concluding with some thoughtful suggestions for improving their current effectiveness.

The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath
Kevin P. Phillips

HarperCollins, 1991

Voters or Consumers: Imagining the contemporary electorate
Darren Lilleker and Richard Scullion

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008

This edited collection seeks to map current thinking and practice in order to assess the extent to which the consumer, as opposed to the voter, should now to be elevated to a central position within our understanding of the relationship between the public and political spheres. The volume will firstly offer an overview of how consumerism has been applied to our understanding of political and voter behaviour so outlining the book s key concepts. ...

The Real Majority: The Classic Examination amern Electorate w/ New intro for 90's

2 reviews
Richard M. Scammon, Ben J. Wattenberg

Plume, 1992

Still a very important book
A classic in its time, this book by two prominent Democrats attempted to warn the Democratic Party not to pander to "trendy" groups of voters, but instead to focus on the "unpoor, unblack and unyoung" (that is, the average American voter) in order to achieve success at the polls. Much has changed in this country in the intervening thirty-odd years, but its message is one that, actually, the ...

The Electorate, the Campaign, and the Office: A Unified Approach to Senate and House Elections

1 review
Paul Gronke

University of Michigan Press, 2001

Author Review
Ever since the founding of our country, American scholars and political observers have commented on the bicameral experiment. The U.S. House and Senate share many constitutional responsibilities, but in other ways (district size, election cycle, size of the chamber), they are very different. But do we think that voters see these same differences when they walk in to the voting booth? ...

A Statistical History of the American Electorate
Jerrold G. Rusk

CQ Press, 2001

A data-rich historical picture of American elections and the American electorate, from 1789 to the present. A Statistical History of the American Electorate adds a new, never explored dimension to study of the nation's political system. Rusk has examined thousands of pieces of information and masses of historical and contemporary numerical data on elections to draw a new picture of our evolving voting ways and byways. His book adds ...

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