Download or read book National Party Conventions 1831 1980 written by Congressional Quarterly, inc and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Party Conventions 1831 1996 written by Congressional Quarterly, inc and published by CQ-Roll Call Group Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides historical data and facts on US nominating conventions and political parties from 1831 to 1996. Chronological summaries of all major party conventions, with excerpts from party platforms and key convention ballots, form the heart of the text.
Download or read book National Party Conventions 1831 1976 written by Congressional Quarterly, inc and published by CQ-Roll Call Group Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Party Conventions 1831 1984 written by and published by CQ-Roll Call Group Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of national political conventions in the U.S., and looks at platforms, roll-call results, and candidate profiles
Download or read book National Party Conventions 1831 1988 written by Congressional Quarterly, inc and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Party Conventions 1831 2000 written by and published by C Q Press Library Reference. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of National Party Conventions covers the complete history of U.S. nominating conventions, offering summaries of all major political party conventions from 1831 to 2000. The chronological format allows readers to trace historical developments in the convention form. Important excerpts from party platforms, key convention ballots for presidential nominees, and significant convention votes on rules and delegate disputes are provided.
Download or read book Bifurcated Politics written by Byron E. Shafer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even today, when it is often viewed as an institution in decline, the national party convention retains a certain raw, emotional, populist fascination. Bifurcated Politics is a portrait of the postwar convention as a changing institution--a changing institution that still confirms the single most important decision in American politics. With the 1988 elections clearly in mind, Byron Shafer examines the status of the national party convention, which is created and dispersed within a handful of days but nevertheless becomes a self-contained world for participants, reporters, and observers alike. He analyzes such dramatic developments as the disappearance of the contest over the presidential nomination and its replacement by struggles over the publicizing of various campaigns, the decline of party officials and the rise of the organized interests, and the large and growing disjunction between what is happening at the convention hall and what the public sees--between the convention on site and the convention on screen. He argues that, despite its declining status, the postwar convention has attracted--and mirrored--most of the major developments in postwar politics: the nationalization of that politics and the spread of procedural reform, a changing connection between the general public and political institutions, even the coming of a new and different sort of American politics. Bifurcated Politics tells the story of most of the postwar conventions, along with the nominating campaigns that preceded them. But it also develops a picture of the changing American politics around those stories. It will become the definitive study of the national party convention.
Download or read book National Party Conventions 1831 2004 written by and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2005-12-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the complete history of U.S. nominating conventions, offering summaries of all major political party conventions from 1831 to 2004.
Download or read book The Rhetoric of the American Political Party Conventions 1948 2016 written by Theodore F. Sheckels and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rhetoric of the American Political Party Conventions, 1948-2016 establishes the rhetorical goals of the thirty-six political party conventions that have taken place since 1948 against the backdrop of the fundamental changes that television brought to the conventions. Theodore F. Sheckels analyzes these conventions to determine whether the gatherings met or failed to meet those goals, including addressing civil rights, unifying divergent wings of the party, celebrating the triumph of a single wing, overcoming dissent inside and outside the meeting hall, overcoming—or capitalizing on—scandal, reconstituting the party after defeats, arguing for change, and advocating for inclusion. Sheckels observes that although speeches are the primary vehicle through which attendees strive to reach these goals, the crucial addresses are not always by the principal players; often, events other than speeches such as negotiations, demonstrations, and media spin can be just as consequential. Sheckels discusses both the similarities and differences in the ways in which the conventions do business and constitute and reconstitute what the political parties are, aiming to persuade the public with rhetorical images and messages. Scholars of communication, rhetoric, political science, and American studies will find this book particularly useful.
Download or read book National Party Conventions 1831 1972 written by Congressional Quarterly, inc and published by CQ-Roll Call Group Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Facts of the United States Since 1789 written by Erik W. Austin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.
Download or read book Electoral Realignments written by David R. Mayhew and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of electoral realignments is one of the most influential and intellectually stimulating enterprises undertaken by American political scientists. Realignment theory has been seen as a science able to predict changes, and generations of students, journalists, pundits, and political scientists have been trained to be on the lookout for “signs” of new electoral realignments. Now a major political scientist argues that the essential claims of realignment theory are wrong—that American elections, parties, and policymaking are not (and never were) reconfigured according to the realignment calendar. David Mayhew examines fifteen key empirical claims of realignment theory in detail and shows us why each in turn does not hold up under scrutiny. It is time, he insists, to open the field to new ideas. We might, for example, adopt a more nominalistic, skeptical way of thinking about American elections that highlights contingency, short-term election strategies, and valence issues. Or we might examine such broad topics as bellicosity in early American history, or racial questions in much of our electoral history. But we must move on from an old orthodoxy and failed model of illumination.
Download or read book Elections A Z written by John L. Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elections A-Z makes the vital and complex process of elections in the United States interesting and accessible to those for whom they have long seemed both arcane and mysterious. This essential reference tool provides a comprehensive guide to understanding the current issues, history, and concepts behind attaining high political office in the United States. Subjects covered in some 200 entries include running for the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the presidency; debates and stages in the campaign and general election processes; the roles of political consultants, the media, and the American political parties; issues such as term limits and campaign finance; court cases that have shaped the electoral process; important terms (often misunderstood outside the United States): "absolute majority"; "dark horse"; "initiatives and referendums"; historic milestones; scandals in American elections, etc.
Download or read book Monthly Labor Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Download or read book Strategic Decision Making in Presidential Nominations written by Kenny J. Whitby and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeks to understand and explain the behavior of party elites during the 2008 Democratic Party presidential race. What is the dominant force in presidential nomination campaigns? Are nomination outcomes decided largely by the political party or by the candidates and their activities? In Strategic Decision-Making in Presidential Nominations, Kenny J. Whitby aims to provide some answers to these important questions, focusing on the closely contested 2008 race between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It was this race that spotlighted the role played by superdelegates, the unpledged party elites who were added to the nomination process in the 1980s. Whitbys central argument is that superdelegates are strategic actors and their endorsements are a response to a variety of demographic, institutional, and campaign factors. While some weigh in early with an endorsement, many adopt a wait-and-see approach. Using a novel framework generally known as survival analysis, Whitby provides us with a method for understanding when and why party elites decide to chime in on their presidential nomination campaign.
Download or read book Social Regulatory Policy written by Raymond Tatalovich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the authors propose an important variant of regulation—social regulatory policy—and explain how the six moral controversies about the policy (school prayer, pornography, crime, gun control, affirmative action, and abortion) are handled by the American political system.
Download or read book Enduring Controversies in Presidential Nominating Politics written by Emmett H. Buell Jr. and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2004-08-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of nominating and electing a president is a spectacle that never fails to engage and excite millions of Americans—and rarely fails to enrage us, as well.Enduring Controversies in Presidential Nominating Politics retraces the more than two hundred-year history of presidential elections in the United States to provide a primer on how the process has evolved from the days of the founders, through the heyday of nominating conventions, to today's overwhelming interest in early primaries.Original essays by the editors introduce, critique, and occasionally even refute a wide variety of historical readings including Alexander Hamilton's defense of election procedures, excerpts of individual states' nominations of candidates in 1824, an overview of the impact television has had on nominating conventions, and calls for a national rotating primary scheme in 2004. As a whole, the collection reveals the common threads that run through the history of the nominating process, and points out that today's litany of complaints is not at all new.
