Tag: Elections

Free Download Sam Wilkins, Richard Vokes, "Elections in Museveni’s Uganda: Understanding the 2016 Polls"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138300128, 0367891239 | EPUB | pages: 248 | 0.7 mb
Uganda’s 2016 elections, which returned thirty-year incumbent President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM) in yet another landslide, took place in an atmosphere of patronage, coercion and fraud. But is this diagnosis sufficient to understand the processes of voting and regime maintenance in Uganda today? Based on a series of detailed case studies from across Uganda, this book provides a more nuanced and complex picture of what the Museveni regime is, and how it keeps winning elections. Whilst not denying that various electoral malpractices are systemic to the regime’s survival, the authors find that these cannot be extricated from Uganda’s history, its wider social realities, and its local political cultures in which the NRM has become so embedded. In so doing, the authors – who include anthropologists, development specialists, historians, geographers, and political-scientists – develop new ways of thinking about the meaning of voting and elections in non-democratic Uganda, and elsewhere. This edition was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies.

Free Download Jennifer Franco, "Elections and Democratization in the Philippines"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0815337345 | EPUB | pages: 376 | 0.5 mb
First published in 2001. This study shows how legitimate elections held under centralized authoritarian conditions before 1986, though not democratic, still contributed to democratization by creating the political space needed for democratic oppostion to arise.

Free Download Jr Arthur M Schlesinger, "History of American Presidential Elections 1789-2008 Ed 4"
English | ISBN: 0816082200 | 2011 | 3 pages | PDF | 3 MB
For more than 200 years, candidates have campaigned for the highest office in the land, debating the major issues facing the country, capturing the attention of the voters, and reflecting the will of the people. Presidential elections are the centerpiece of American democracy, as citizens go to the polls every four years to choose a new leader. Prior to the election of George Washington in 1789, no country in the world had ever peacefully transferred power in a national election. We often take this for granted, as American elections have become a model for the entire world. The presidential campaign of 2008 was the 56th in American history and culminated in the election of Barack Obama. It was the most significant event of the year and was seen as a major turning point in American history.

Free Download Daron Shaw, Keena Lipsitz, "Campaigns and Elections"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0393441687 | PDF | pages: 845 | 13.3 mb
The #1 book examines contemporary campaigns and elections―now updated through 2020

Free Download L. Sandy Maisel, Jennifer A. Yoder, Eric Jason Martin (Narrator), "Elections: A Very Short Introduction"
English | ASIN: B0DDQHGNZT | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:04:00 | 111 MB
Elections occur in all democracies and many nondemocratic regimes as well. They determine who will hold public office and who will have the power to govern. They connect citizens to those whom they choose to make decisions on their behalf and who regulate their behavior. This book looks comparatively at the key aspects of elections. In addition to describing types of electoral systems, it discusses the implications of the various systems for the administration of elections, voter participation, representation, government stability, and other factors. Where appropriate, it examines efforts to reform a nation’s (or a sub-national entity’s) system, exploring the impetus for reform and the effects of those reforms when implemented.
L. Sandy Maisel and Jennifer A. Yoder lay out the variety of electoral systems in the broadest terms-single-member district plurality systems; proportional systems; and mixed systems. They discuss voting and the various electoral institutions used to implement the ways in which voting occurs and how votes are tabulated across electoral systems. They analyze the consequences of each system, first for the functioning of the democracy, and second for the electoral strategies politicians employ, closing with a discussion of reforms under consideration in a number of countries.

Free Download Dennis W. Johnson, "Political Consultants and American Elections"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138786365, 1138786357 | EPUB | pages: 322 | 1.0 mb
When it comes to elections, campaigns matter. And despite the ever-increasing role of volunteers and amateurs, modern American political campaigns are a professional affair. Understanding how they are run and how campaign strategies are set requires an in-depth analysis of what political consultants do, from opposition research to public opinion polling and from directing media strategies to mobilzing voters-with fundraising a priority at all stages. At all levels of the electoral arena, modern, sophisticated campaigns cannot hope to be effective without the guiding disciplines of professional consultants.

Free Download Neil Munro, "Elections without Order: Russia’s Challenge to Vladimir Putin"
English | 2002 | pages: 274 | ISBN: 0521816092, 0521016444 | PDF | 1,4 mb
Russians want free elections and order. Although their political elites have had no difficulty in supplying candidates and parties in the last decade, predictability in everyday life and the rule of law have suffered. This book is about Russia’s attempt to achieve democratization backwards, by holding elections without having created a modern state. This dilemma is the challenge that Russia presents to Vladimir Putin.

Free Download Euel W Elliott, "Issues And Elections: Presidential Voting In Contemporary America-a Revisionist View"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0813376335, 0367012790 | EPUB | pages: 140 | 1.1 mb
This volume attempts to determine the impact of issues on the voting of individuals and the election outcomes in presidential races, 1972 to the present. The author investigates the areas of Vietnam, unemployment, inflation, crime and the budget deficit when looking at how individuals see issue as important and then looks at the difference between the parties in terms of their ability to handle the issue.

Free Download Elections: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by L. Sandy Maisel, Jennifer A. Yoder
English | August 1st, 2024 | ISBN: 0197645755 | 160 pages | True EPUB | 3.66 MB
Most citizens know how elections work in their own country, but not all elections are created equally.

Free Download Nelson W. Polsby professor of political science University of California Berkeley; author, "Presidential Elections: Strategies and Structures of American Politics"
English | ISBN: 1538183706 | 2023 | 328 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Polsby and Wildavsky’s classic text, now updated by Stephen Schier and David Hopkins, argues that the institutional rules of the presidential nomination and election processes, in combination with the behavior of the mass electorate, structure the strategic choices faced by politicians in powerful and foreseeable ways. We can make sense of the decisions made by different political actors-incumbents, challengers, Democrats, Republicans, consultants, party officials, activists, delegates, journalists, and voters-by understanding the ways in which their world is organized by incentives, regulations, events, resources, customs, and opportunities. Thoroughly revised and updated, this Sixteenth Edition provides everything students need to know about presidential elections going into the 2024 cycle.