Beat The Incumbent

Author : Louis Perron
Publisher : Radius Book Group
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781635768473

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Beat the Incumbent by Louis Perron Pdf

Incumbents enjoy many advantages when they seek reelection, but their distinct disadvantages (such as not fulfilling promises or staying within the status quo) are ripe weaknesses for opposing candidates to knock them down. Studying the US’s Barack Obama, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, and France’s Emmanuel Macron, among many other candidates, political strategist Louis Perron, PhD, describes tactics to assess the strength of the incumbent, the quality of the challenger, and how to control and win a campaign. Readers interested in running for office or in assisting a political campaign will learn how to build a top-notch team, define your target audience, increase your media presence, develop your message, advertise effectively, deliver great speeches, and prepare to win debates. For relatively new challengers, Perron demonstrates how lack of experience has become less important and how these weaknesses can be neutralized. When campaigns turn ugly and play dirty, he instructs candidates how to combat against character attacks and how they can make a comeback if they lose the election. With over a decade of experience orchestrating political campaigns around the globe, Perron’s Beat the Incumbent is the essential step-by-step guide for any level of political office to challenge an incumbent and, once victory is claimed, how you can avoid the same traps to effect change and win reelection.

Author : Stephen K. Medvic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000479164

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Campaigns and Elections by Stephen K. Medvic Pdf

Stephen K. Medvic’s Campaigns and Elections is a comprehensive yet compact core text that addresses two distinct but related aspects of American electoral democracy: the processes that constitute campaigns and elections, and the players who are involved. In addition to balanced coverage of process and actors, it gives equal billing to both campaigns and elections and covers contests for legislative and executive positions at the national, state, and local levels, including issue-oriented campaigns of note. The book opens by providing students with the conceptual distinctions between what happens in an election and the campaigning that precedes it. Significant attention is devoted to setting up the context for these campaigns and elections by covering the rules of the game in the American electoral system as well as aspects of election administration and the funding of elections. Then the book systematically covers the actors at every level—candidates and their organizations, parties, interest groups, the media, and voters—and the macro-level aspects of campaigns such as campaign strategy and determinants of election outcomes. The book concludes with a big-picture assessment of campaign ethics and implications of the "permanent campaign." New to the Fourth Edition: • Fully updated through the 2020 elections, looking ahead to the 2022 midterms • Covers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2020 election as well as the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol • Adds new sections in Chapter 3 on election integrity and the assessment of election administration • Reviews recent Supreme Court cases on gerrymandering and faithless electors • Expands coverage of social media as a source of news, of the increasingly partisan nature of the media, and of the role of media fact-checking in campaigns and elections • Reorganizes the chapters on the various actors so that the chapter on candidates leads directly to the chapter on campaigns • Fully updates the resources listed at the end of each chapter

Author : Allen D. Hertzke,Ronald M. Peters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315487915

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The Atomistic Congress by Allen D. Hertzke,Ronald M. Peters Pdf

First Published in 1993. This volume is based upon an April 1990 Carl Albert Center conference commemorating the bicentennial of the United States Congress and the centennial of the University of Oklahoma. The conference was entitled, Back to the Future: the United States Congress in the Twenty-first Century. Its focus was on the nature of change in Congress and on the likely direction of congressional change as the new century approaches.

Author : Ben J. Wattenberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political parties
ISBN : 9780029337950

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Values Matter Most by Ben J. Wattenberg Pdf

ricans most--"The Social Issue"--crime, welfare, race, discipline, and more. Wattenberg caps his lively analysis with strategy lessons for Democrats, Republicans, and potential third (or even fourth) party candidates. 50 charts & graphs.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Subcommittee on Elections
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Campaign funds
ISBN : UOM:39015009285100

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To Limit Campaign Expenditures by United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Subcommittee on Elections Pdf

Author : Arianna Huffington
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307270207

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Right is Wrong by Arianna Huffington Pdf

With her trademark passion, intelligence, and devastating wit, Huffington Post editor in chief Arianna Huffington tackles the issues that are crucial to this year’s presidential election and, even more so, to the fate of the country. Huffington makes the case that America has been hijacked from within by a radical element—the “lunatic fringe” of the Right that has taken over the Republican Party. Despite holding views at odds with the majority of Americans, these zealots have given us an endless war in Iraq, a sputtering economy, a health care system on life support, a war on science and reason, and an immoral embrace of torture. But they haven’t done it on their own: they have been enabled by a compliant media that act as if there is no such thing as truth and are more interested in cozying up to those in power than in holding them accountable, and by feckless Democrats who have allowed themselves to be intimidated into backing down again and again. Both a withering indictment and a hopeful call to arms, Right Is Wrong is an explosive, boldly incisive work that will help set the national agenda.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Communications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Advertising, Political
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045209371

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Clean Campaign Act of 1989 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Communications Pdf

Author : Rachel Elise Barkow
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674919235

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Prisoners of Politics by Rachel Elise Barkow Pdf

America’s criminal justice system reflects irrational fears stoked by politicians seeking to win election. Pointing to specific policies that are morally problematic and have failed to end the cycle of recidivism, Rachel Barkow argues that reform guided by evidence, not politics and emotions, will reduce crime and reverse mass incarceration.

Author : Michal Shamir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351322263

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The Elections in Israel 2003 by Michal Shamir Pdf

The Elections in Israel--2003 brings together leading Israeli and North American social scientists and their state-of-the-art, in-depth analysis of the 2003 Israeli national elections. These elections returned Ariel Sharon and the Likud to power amid one of the bloodiest rounds of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and a severe economic downturn in Israel. Contributors analyze the electoral behavior of the voters as a whole and various subgroups, highlighting social cleavages and identity, as well as issues and other strategic considerations. Three chapters analyze in detail the Arab, the national-religious, and the "Russian" vote. The 2003 elections saw Israel's return to the family of parliamentary nations after it experimented with the direct election of the prime minister from 1996 through 2001. The impact of the adoption and repeal of this unique Israeli system of government is another major topic covered in this volume, and several contributions explore the impact of these changes upon the electorate, the party system, and party financing. Other unusual features of the 2003 elections were the low turnout levels among Jewish and Arab voters; political moves to disqualify Arab candidates and lists from running for office, which were overruled by the Supreme Court of Israel; the collapse of the left, the spectacular showing of the centrist Shinui party, and the dominant status of the Likud in the Knesset and in Israeli politics. Through its focus on the 2003 elections, this volume also illuminates developments and changes in Israeli society and politics. Many of these developments--multiculturalism, changes in social stratification, the growing role of the judiciary and of the media, and political reforms--characterize other Western democracies as well, and these are discussed from a comparative perspective. The Elections in Israel--2003 will be of particular interest to those concerned with politics in Israel as well as those concerned with comparative politics and elections in general.

Author : James H Fowler,Oleg Smirnov
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781592135967

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Mandates, Parties, and Voters by James H Fowler,Oleg Smirnov Pdf

Shows how the size of an election victory influences subsequent candidate behavior, voter behavior, and even the economy.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Subcommittee on Elections
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Campaign funds
ISBN : UCR:31210012290076

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Campaign Finance by United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Subcommittee on Elections Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Task Force on Elections
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Campaign funds
ISBN : UCR:31210012876031

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Campaign Finance Reform by United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Task Force on Elections Pdf

Author : Barbara Burrell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472052318

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Gender in Campaigns for the U.S. House of Representatives by Barbara Burrell Pdf

Barbara Burrell presents a comprehensive comparative examination of men's and women’s candidacies for the U.S. House of Representatives in elections from 1994 through 2012. Analyzing extensive data sets on all major party candidates for 10 elections—covering candidate status, party affiliation, fund-raising, candidate background variables, votes obtained, and success rates for both primary and general elections—Burrell finds little evidence of categorical discrimination against women candidates. Women compete equally with men and often outpace them in raising money, gaining interest group and political party support, and winning elections. Yet the number of women elected to the U.S. House has expanded only incrementally. The electoral structure limits opportunities for newcomers to win congressional seats and there remains a lower presence of women in winnable contests despite growing recruitment efforts. Burrell suggests that congressional dysfunction discourages potential candidates from pursuing legislative careers and that ambitious women are finding alternative paths to influence and affect public policy.

Author : Stephen J. Wayne,Clyde Wilcox
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0765607425

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The Election of the Century and what it Tells Us about the Future of American Politics by Stephen J. Wayne,Clyde Wilcox Pdf

This work places the 2000 presidential and congressional elections into the larger and future context of American politics. It examines a range of topics including "wedge" issues in 2000 - the economy, foreign policy and race, the dimensions of gender, age, and religion, for example.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Foreign Commerce and Tourism
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1680 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Export controls
ISBN : UCAL:B5165396

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Export Expansion Legislation by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Foreign Commerce and Tourism Pdf