Author: Andre Blais
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Keywords: vote, political, science, theory, rational, merits, limits, choice
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2000-08-03
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0822957345
ISBN-13: 9780822957348
What makes people decide to vote? In addressing this simple question, Andr Blais examines the factors that increase or decrease turnout at the aggregate, cross-national level and considers what affects peoples decision to vote or to abstain. In doing so, Blais assesses the merits and limitations of the rational choice model in explaining voter behavior. The past few decades have witnessed a rise in the popularity of the rational choice model in accounting for voter turnout, and more recently a groundswell of outspoken opposition to rational choice theory. Blais tackles this controversial su
Authors:Kevin J. McMahon, David M. Rankin, Donald W. Beach
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: vote, region, house, winning
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-07-15
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 1403968802
ISBN-13: 9781403968807
What does it take to win the White House? This text helps students understand both the issues and how and why people vote for a candidate. After discussing the dynamics of the primary campaigns, the authors examine three broad sets of issues that play a key role in voting: foreign policy, domestic policies, and the culture wars. This sets the foundations for an examination of regional similarities and differences in voting patterns, as the varying salience and valence of issues--whether general or specific--is explored across and within regions. Special attention is paid to battleground states
Author: Janet Tashjia
Publisher: Square Fish
Keywords: larry, vote
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-09-02
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0312384467
ISBN-13: 9780312384463
After faking his own death in the last book (a "pseudocide") and then taking on a second phony identity, the allegedly real 17-year-old protagonist of the Gospel According to Larry shows up on author Janet Tashjian’s doorstep again, with another manuscript detailing his latest exploits. Last time around, Josh changed the world by fighting global consumerism as Internet alter ego Larry; this time, he’s going for the big enchilada as just plain ol’ Josh--in a run for the presidency and an attempt to change U.S. politics forever. (And who’s his running mate? Unrequited lov
Author: Micol Ostow
Publisher: Point
Keywords: vote, popular
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0545075211
ISBN-13: 9780545075213
Erin Bright is pretty, polished, and popular--the perfect First Daughter. Her father is the mayor of their town, so photo shoots and Inauguration balls are a part of her life. In high school, Erin is politically involved as well; her handsome boyfriend has been student council president for the past two years. But THIS election season, things change. When Erin suddenly gets passionate about an environmental cause, she decides to run AGAINST her boyfriend...and to challenge what her dad stands for! Can Erin convince her friends, and herself, that she has what it takes to lead?
Author: Jean Fritz
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Keywords: stanton, lizzie, vote, women
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1999-02-15
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0698117646
ISBN-13: 9780698117648
Who says women shouldn’t speak in public? And why can’t they vote? These are questions Elizabeth Cady Stanton grew up asking herself. Her father believed that girls didn’t count as much as boys, and her own husband once got so embarrassed when she spoke at a convention that he left town. Luckily Lizzie wasn’t one to let society stop her from fighting for equality for everyone. And though she didn’t live long enough to see women get to vote, our entire country benefited from her fight for women’s rights. "Fritzimparts not just a sense of Stanton’s accom
Author: Richard K. Scher
Publisher: M E Sharpe Inc
Keywords: america, vote, hard, disenfranchisement, politics
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2010-10
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0765627361
ISBN-13: 9780765627360
Written by an author with wide expertise on Southern and Florida politics and districting, this book reveals the ways that some people are formally or effectively disenfranchised in America, and how control of the ballot and the voting process is manipulated--and then asks why we seem to tolerate it.
Author: Alexander Keyssar
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: united, states, democracy, history, vote, contested, right
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2009-06-30
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0465005020
ISBN-13: 9780465005024
Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping reinterpretation of American political history as well as a meditation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life.
