Political Science : Elections

Charles Osgood, one of America’s favorite news personalities, offers a hilarious compendium of anecdotes from the last seventy years of presidential campaigns. With anecdotes from Harry Truman to JFK to George W. Bush, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House captures the wit and humor of the campaign trail. Culled from speeches, interviews, press conferences, as well as articles written by and about the candidates—no source is left untapped. From Bob Dole telling reporters after a loss in the primary that “I slept like a baby—every two hours I woke up and cried,” and Barry Goldwater’s comment that his talkative opponent Hubert Humphreys “has been clocked at 275 words a minute with gusts up to 340,” to Adlai Stevenson declaring that “If I talk over the people’s head, Ike must be talking under their feet,” this is the go-to source for campaign humor. Just when America most needs a good laugh, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House makes the seemingly endless race to the presidency a lot more fun. more...

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Get Out the Vote! Is a practical guide for anyone trying to mobilize voters or organize at the grass roots. Unlike authors of other campaign advice books, Donald Green and Alan Gerber root their work firmly in rigorous science. Their recommendations emerge from thorough experiments conducted in real electoral settings, examining the impact and effectiveness of door-to-door canvassing, telephone calls, direct mail, and other campaign tactics. more...

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Campaigns are a critical part of the political process in the United States, but until now, reference sources on campaigns have only covered selected parts of the process or have been written for political insiders. The Guide to Political Campaigns in America is the first resource to examine and explain every aspect of campaigns in a manner that satisfies the needs of many different audiences. This unique and comprehensive volume explores history, issues, processes and people, and types of campaigns. Editor Paul Herrnson, a well-respected government and politics scholar who has worked on many campaigns himself, brings to the work a dynamic combination of high-level scholarship and hands-on experience that sets this guide apart from all other campaign resources. more...

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Pleasants interviews the two main Florida lawyers, Dexter Douglass for Gore and Barry Richard for Bush, and discusses the decision- making process with three judges involved in key cases. more...

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Building on their insightful work on India’s 1998 and 1999 parliamentary. elections, distinguished scholars Ramashray Roy and Paul Wallace’s current. book focuses on the landmark elections of 2004. Thematically divided into two. sections, the book focuses on:. – the national, theoretical and comparative perspectives on participation. of women in the electoral process, caste dynamics, religion and nationalism,. as well as federalism and factionalism. – state-specific studies of Andhra. Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Meghalaya, Orissa and West Bengal. – tribal. politics, at a time when the politicisation of ethnic identities is being increasingly. felt in various parts of India. Bringing together contributors from India and abroad, this volume adds to the. body of work on electoral politics and social change in India, and will be of. interest to students and teachers of political science, journalists, as well. as the informed, general reader. more...

Price: $49.95