Category: Elections

Election Fraud: Detecting and Deterring Electoral - download pdf or read online

By R. Michael Alvarez

Allegations of fraud have marred fresh elections worldwide, from Russia and Italy to Mexico and the us. Such fees elevate basic questions on the standard of democracy in each one kingdom. but election fraud and, extra greatly, electoral manipulation stay remarkably understudied recommendations. there isn't any consensus on what constitutes election fraud, not to mention how you can realize and deter it. "Election Fraud: Detecting and Deterring Electoral Manipulation" brings jointly specialists on election legislations, election management, and U.S. and comparative politics to deal with those serious issues.The first a part of the publication, which opens with an essay through Craig Donsanto of the U.S. division of Justice, examines the U.S. realizing of election fraud in comparative point of view. within the moment a part of the booklet, D. Roderick Kiewiet, Jonathan N. Katz, and different students of U.S. elections draw on a wide selection of assets, together with survey information, incident experiences, and state-collected fraud allegations, to degree the level and nature of election fraud within the usa. eventually, the 3rd a part of the booklet analyzes recommendations for detecting and possibly deterring fraud. those suggestions contain either statistical research, as Walter R. Mebane, Jr. and Peter Ordeshook clarify, and the now common perform of election tracking, which Alberto Simpser examines in an fascinating essay.

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New PDF release: Japan Decides 2014: The Japanese General Election

By Robert J. Pekkanen, Ethan Scheiner, Steven R. Reed

Accumulating unique and fine quality research by means of best students from Japan, the USA, Australia, and Europe, this quantity analyzes the result of the 2014 election, studying all the significant political events, primary coverage matters, crusade practices, and considers how the implications have been used as a mandate for enormous coverage reform.

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Download e-book for kindle: Understanding Political Change. The British Voter 1964–1987 by Anthony Heath

By Anthony Heath

The critical quandary of Understanding Political Change is to discover the social and political assets of electoral swap in Britain. From the Labour successes of the Sixties throughout the reemergence of the Liberals as a countrywide strength in 1974 and the increase and fall of the SDP to the aptitude emergence of the golf green social gathering within the Nineteen Nineties, Dr Heath and his collaborators chart the continuously altering mold of British politics. Questions of the higher volatility of a extra refined citizens, of latest cleavages in society exchanging these in accordance with social category, of the Conservative government's planned and inadvertent interventions to form the rising social constitution, and of the effect which the political events were in a position to exert on public attitudes are all addressed almost about information from the election surveys conducted after every one normal election because 1964

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New PDF release: Truman and Pendergast

By Robert H. Ferrell

No component of the political occupation of Harry S. Truman used to be extra fraught with drama than his courting with Thomas J. Pendergast. in a single in their earliest conferences, the 2 males have been momentarily at odds after Truman, who used to be then presiding pass judgement on of Jackson County, gave a $400,000 highway agreement to a building corporation in South Dakota, and Pendergast, the boss of Kansas urban, wasn't more than happy approximately it. He had another individual in brain for the agreement. Their organization therefore had its disagreements, yet their universal curiosity in politics used to be sufficient to set up an enduring relationship.In 1934, after contemplating fourteen different males, Pendergast subsidized Truman for the Senate. even though Truman had frequently cooperated with Pendergast on patronage concerns, he had by no means concerned himself within the illegalities that might finally smash the Pendergast computer. in truth, Truman had no notion how deeply the Boss had engaged in corruption in his own affairs, in addition to in handling the govt. of Kansas urban. whilst the Boss was once despatched to Leavenworth for tax evasion in 1939, Truman used to be astonished.Despite Truman's honesty, his courting with Pendergast virtually prompted his defeat through the Missouri senatorial basic in August 1940. the most challenger for Truman's Senate seat was once the formidable governor of Missouri, Lloyd C. Stark, who after destroying Truman's sponsor, the Pendergast computer, denounced Truman as "the Pendergast senator." at the back of the governor was once President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom Stark grew to become opposed to Truman. Roosevelt sought after Missouri's electoral votes in his approaching bid for a 3rd time period, and he believed that Stark may possibly provide them to him.Because of the stigma of Truman's Pendergast connection, the 1940 Democratic basic used to be the tightest election in his whole political profession. He received by way of fewer than 8 thousand votes. In Truman and Pendergast, Robert H. Ferrell masterfully offers Truman's fight to maintain his Senate seat with out the help of Pendergast and regardless of Stark's enlistment of Roosevelt opposed to him. Ferrell exhibits that Truman gained the election in his standard fashion—going on to the folks, conversing in truth and prefer one in all them.

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Download e-book for kindle: Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity by Johan Leemans, Peter Van Nuffelen, Shawn W. J. Keough, Carla

By Johan Leemans, Peter Van Nuffelen, Shawn W. J. Keough, Carla Nicolaye

The election of a brand new bishop used to be a defining second for neighborhood Christian groups in past due Antiquity. This quantity contributes to a reassessment of the phenomenon of episcopal elections from the broadest attainable viewpoint, analyzing the numerous mix of things, personalities, ideas and conduct that performed a job within the technique. construction at the cutting-edge concerning overdue old bishops and episcopal election, this interdisciplinary quantity of gathered reports through prime students bargains clean views via focussing on particular case-studies and starting up new ways.

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Download e-book for iPad: Courting Democracy in Mexico: Party Strategies and Electoral by Todd A. Eisenstadt

By Todd A. Eisenstadt

Pitting competition activists' post-electoral conflicts opposed to their utilization of regime-constructed electoral courts, this learn of Mexico's sluggish transition to democracy addresses the puzzle of why its competition events didn't use those self reliant courts. The electoral courts have been validated to mitigate Mexico's usually violent post-electoral disputes at key moments of the country's 27-year democratic transition, and had formal promises of courtroom independence from the occasion of the Institutional Revolution (PRI).

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Download e-book for kindle: The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement: 1890-1920 by Aileen S. Kraditor

By Aileen S. Kraditor

"An very important contribution to the historical past of girls and the highbrow heritage of the United States." —Carl N. Degler, Stanford University

What united and moved hundreds of thousands of girls to hunt a correct that their society denied them? What have been their ideals concerning the nature of the house, marriage, intercourse, politics, faith, immigrants, blacks, exertions, the country? during this ebook, Aileen S. Kraditor selects a gaggle of suffragist leaders and investigates their thinking—the rules, and strategies, with which they battled the guidelines and associations impeding what suffragists outlined as growth towards the equality of the sexes. She additionally examines what the yankee public believed "suffragism" to intend and the way the most important occasions of the time affected the circulate.

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The Gilded Rage: A Wild Ride Through Donald Trump’s America - download pdf or read online

By Alexander Zaitchik

Selected as one in all Publishers Weekly's most sensible Ten alternatives for Politics & present occasions of Fall 2016

A grippingly intimate and heart-breaking portrait of the jogging wounded who make up the bottom of the Trump stream. determined and offended, those are the lads and ladies of the vanishing business heartland and the depressed Appalachian coal state and the drug-running, no-man's land alongside the Southwestern borderlands. they've got no illusions concerning the grandstanding billionaire and his obvious flaws. yet they think forgotten and screwed over via political, company and media elites...and they suppose that Donald Trump, regardless of his flamboyant demagoguery, may well good be their final probability for salvation. half Studs Terkel, half Hunter S. Thompson, Alexander Zaitchik takes us deeper into the ravaged soul of the United States than the other chronicler of our times.

Praise for Alexander Zaitchik's Common experience: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance:

"A sharp and informative smackdown. For Zaitchik, [Glenn] Beck is only one extra American con artist within the P.T. Barnum culture, a shameless pseudoconservative bottom-feeder who will say whatever to maintain the highlight on himself whereas the money rolls in."
--Mark Lilla, The big apple assessment of Books

"A sensational book... this can be a superbly written and insightful biography--thoughtful, thought of, and intensely intentional concerning the have to comprehend Beck either as an emblem of whatever greater happening in the US and as a person."
--Susan Gardner, Daily Kos

"A scathing profile that follows the robust pundit from a single-parent domestic in rural Washington country to conservative superstardom."
--The Boston Globe

"A nice political e-book. Zaitchik tells [Beck's tale] good and no-one has advised it extra soberly."
--Slate

"An informative study."
--Sean Wilentz, The New Yorker

"A gripping and carefully researched biography."
--Joe Conason, Salon

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