Download or read book The Party Decides written by Marty Cohen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, politicians and voters alike worried that the outcome might depend on the preferences of unelected superdelegates. This concern threw into relief the prevailing notion that—such unusually competitive cases notwithstanding—people, rather than parties, should and do control presidential nominations. But for the past several decades, The Party Decides shows, unelected insiders in both major parties have effectively selected candidates long before citizens reached the ballot box. Tracing the evolution of presidential nominations since the 1790s, this volume demonstrates how party insiders have sought since America’s founding to control nominations as a means of getting what they want from government. Contrary to the common view that the party reforms of the 1970s gave voters more power, the authors contend that the most consequential contests remain the candidates’ fights for prominent endorsements and the support of various interest groups and state party leaders. These invisible primaries produce frontrunners long before most voters start paying attention, profoundly influencing final election outcomes and investing parties with far more nominating power than is generally recognized.
Download or read book Oregon Blue Book written by Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elections written by Cassie M. Lawton and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elections are important events in democratic governments, and voting is a right and a responsibility. Being educated about the election process in an important part of becoming an informed citizen. This book explores the election system, key elections that happen in the United States, and the historic path to securing elections for all. Readers will learn about the ways people work together to ensure elections are free and fair today. Each chapter presents crucial aspects of elections supported by corresponding photographs, related sidebars, and fascinating fact boxes. Your readers are asked questions about what they've read to strengthen comprehension and critical-thinking skills.
Download or read book The American Party System written by Charles Edward Merriam and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How To Choose A Political Party written by Delcie Sternisha and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What the heck is happening to our country. it's all so sad and frustrating and the book supplied some chuckles to release the tension. This politically incorrect voter guide is for the Bush lovin' Obama haters. It is for anyone who thinks that Dick Cheney is a loyal American and Ronald Reagan a Deity. It is especially for the working-class American who believes the Republican Party as it exists today gives a damn about them or their family. I love my country and pay attention. The United States is going in a very wrong direction at this point in history and it may take Teddy Roosevelt coming down off of Mount Rushmore to save this beautiful idea, America. If you read this Dick Cheney I hope you will see the error of your ways. The fact that you have not been in front of the Hague for War Crimes when Maryland National Guard troops served jail time for treating prisoners in accordance with guidelines approved by you speaks volumes about what is wrong with the United States today.
Download or read book Policy Office Or Votes written by Wolfgang C. Müller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the behaviour of political parties in situations where they experience conflict between two or more important objectives.
Download or read book An Introduction to Political Parties and Practical Politics written by Perley Orman Ray and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Parties and Electoral Problems written by Robert Clarkson Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Super PACs written by Louise I. Gerdes and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passage of Citizens United by the Supreme Court in 2010 sparked a renewed debate about campaign spending by large political action committees, or Super PACs. Its ruling said that it is okay for corporations and labor unions to spend as much as they want in advertising and other methods to convince people to vote for or against a candidate. This book provides a wide range of opinions on the issue. Includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives; eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials, and many others.
Download or read book Mandates Parties and Voters written by James H Fowler and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most research on two-party elections has considered the outcome as a single, dichotomous event: either one or the other party wins. In this groundbreaking book, James Fowler and Oleg Smirnov investigate not just who wins, but by how much, and they marshal compelling evidence that mandates-in the form of margin of victory-matter. Using theoretical models, computer simulation, carefully designed experiments, and empirical data, the authors show that after an election the policy positions of both parties move in the direction preferred by the winning party-and they move even more if the victory is large. In addition, Fowler and Smirnov not only show that the divergence between the policy positions of the parties is greatest when the previous election was close, but also that policy positions are further influenced by electoral volatility and ideological polarization. This pioneering book will be of particular interest to political scientists, game theoreticians, and other scholars who study voting behavior and its short-term and long-range effects on public policy.
Download or read book Choosing Our Choices written by Robert E. DiClerico and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probably no feature of the American political system has been subject to more sustained criticism over the last twenty-five years than the process by which we choose our presidents. In Choosing Our Choices, Robert E. DiClerico and James W. Davis debate the question: should we retain the present, primary centered 'direct democracy' method in selecting presidential candidates or should we return to a representative decision-making process to nominate our candidates? This timely and thought-provoking text offers the reader a concise yet comprehensive analysis of the presidential nominating system, arguments for and against the current system, and supplemental documents and essays for further reading. Choosing Our Choices will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in exploring how Americans choose their leaders.
Download or read book Political Parties and Legislative Party Switching written by W. Heller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political parties and democratic politics go hand in hand. Since parties matter, it matters too when elected politicians change party affiliation. This book shows why, when, and to what effect politicians switch parties in pursuit of their goals, as constrained by institutions and in response to their environments.
Download or read book New Forms of Political Party Membership written by International IDEA and published by International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA). This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political parties have traditionally aimed to create large memberships to sustain and advance the objectives of their political platforms. This way parties became the main vehicle for political activism and the gatekeepers for political representation. Membership was based on active participation in the activities of the party and in some cases on paying a fee to finance the party. Today, many parties still boast large traditional memberships, yet a trend of decreasing numbers is observed globally. While formal membership is decreasing, new forms of political party membership are being introduced. These new forms involve new types or levels of membership that require less commitment, or do not include any payment of fees. This Primer analyse these new forms of political party membership and presents how different parties and contexts have given birth to different ways of engaging citizens in the party’s life.
Download or read book Washington s Farewell Address to the People of the United States 1796 written by George Washington and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Parties written by Cari Meister and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Right or left. Blue or red. Donkeys or elephants. What are political parties all about? Readers learn all about the different politcal parties in America an how they play a part in our elections.
Download or read book The Reputational Premium written by Paul M. Sniderman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a new theory of party identification, the central concept in the study of voting. Challenging the idea that voters identify with a political party out of emotional attachment, this work explains why party identification in contemporary American politics enables voters to make coherent policy choices.
Download or read book Party Politics in America written by Frank Joseph Sorauf and published by Pearson Scott Foresman. This book was released on 1988 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
