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While the 2000 presidential election had a number of unique features, including the decisive role of the Supreme Court, it actually was quite similar to three earlier television-age campaigns. For the fourth time since 1960, an incumbent president retired and his party nominated the vice president as a potential successor.

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A comparative analysis of the presidential selection process in the United States, Russia, and France.

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This book examines the changes in elections, politics, and democratic movements over the past decade, marking a paradigm shift in political discourse. Han reveals the impacts of networked information technologies, and discusses how previously apolitical youth have transformed into a cohesive voting bloc and formidable constituency.

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Examines the process of German unification from the perspective of the political parties, their voters and the parliamentary system. Specialists offer an analysis of the attempts by the established German parties to address the problems of German union as a policy goal and to deal with the internal party changes induced by the events of 1989/90.

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They found that the news media consistently downplay debate content and instead emphasize their own views on candidate performance--media verdicts influence voters as much as the debates themselves.

Extensive content analyses and more than 2,350 surveys were conducted to analyze media verdicts on the 1988 debates.

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Offers an analysis of Nigeria's controversial general elections of April 2007, and the implications for the future of the democratic movement in Africa. This book provides an account of what went wrong with these disputed presidential, federal, and state elections.

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The legitimacy of the American electoral system depends on sustaining reasonable levels of fairness, accountability, responsiveness, and common sense.

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This book examines expectations that elections will lead to counterinsurgency success through close analysis of four cases where governments were supported by the United States: Vietnam, El Salvador, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Such expectations are unfounded, and contributed to a flawed counterinsurgency strategy by the United States.

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This book investigates persuasive attacks on Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican primaries through a variety of mediadebates, TV spots, Twitter, Facebook, political cartoons, the National Review, and TV talk shows.

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A thoughtful exploration of the current state of political campaigning and how it is ruining American politics.

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How did the 2020 election shape the major political parties in the U.S This volume explores the opposing forces of party polarization and internal party factionalism during this tumultuous period. Leading authors demonstrate how factions within the parties reshaped, and responded to, the changing political environment.

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This updated eighth edition of Political Campaign Communication adds an essential overview of the 2016 presidential campaign. The concise update explores key issues that arose in 2016 including candidate surfacing, the changing role of advertising, social media, journalism and the rise of fake news, and issues of gender.

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Political Election Debates presents theory and research on political leaders debates. Election debates in the United States and around the world (e.g., Germany, Israel, UK, South Korea, Taiwan, France) are explored. News coverage of debates is also examined.

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Examining the role of political consultants in elections, this text focuses on state and regional races and considers the strategies and variables unique to the smaller political campaigns.

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The book shows how political marketing - the design of government by focus groups and polls - spearheaded by Blair in the UK and Clinton in the US has spread round the world to countries as diverse as Brazil as well as New Zealand and Germany. -- .

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An old pro on political mischief in the United States gives us an overview of U.S. campaign tactics and ethics from eighteenth-century pamphleteers to campaign consultants and media wizards in the 1990s.

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This volume addresses the recurring problem of the non-participation of significant numbers of citizens in the political process of the US political system. Specifically, the book explores the reasons why half of eligible voters fail to exercise their basic right to vote.

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Uncertainty reigns in volatile political times. This book aims to provide a systemic model for understanding how political volatility throughout the U.S. history has had its root in the rise and fall of two competing racial and religious groupings.

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Contributors to this volume, from established democracies, new and restored democracies, and democracies facing destabilizing pressure, examine the extent to which electoral politics in their countries have been affected by the emergence of high-tech professional campaigns.

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Contributors to this volume, from established democracies, new and restored democracies, and democracies facing destabilizing pressure, examine the extent to which electoral politics in their countries have been affected by the emergence of high-tech professional campaigns.

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Argues that voters are eminently capable of playing an efficacious role in democratic politics and of routinely demonstrating the ability to evaluate competing stewards in a discriminating manner. This book offers a cognitively based model of voting and uses a normal vote approach to analyzing local-level election returns.