Author: Angus CampbellPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226092542
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
On voting behavior in the United States
The American Voter
Author: Angus CampbellPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226092542
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
On voting behavior in the United States
From the Bullet to the Ballot
Author: Jakobi WilliamsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469608162
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jakobi Williams demonstrates that the city's Black Power movement was both a response to and an extension of the city's civil rights movement. Williams focuses on the life and violent death of Fred Hampton, a charismatic leader who served as president of the NAACP Youth Council and continued to pursue a civil rights agenda when he became chairman of the revolutionary Chicago-based Black Panther Party. Framing the story of Hampton and the ILBPP as a social and political history and using, for the first time, sealed secret police files in Chicago and interviews conducted with often reticent former members of the ILBPP, Williams explores how Hampton helped develop racial coalitions between the ILBPP and other local activists and organizations. Williams also recounts the history of the original Rainbow Coalition, created in response to Richard J. Daley's Democratic machine, to show how the Panthers worked to create an antiracist, anticlass coalition to fight urban renewal, political corruption, and police brutality.
For the Freedom of Her Race
Author: Lisa G. MatersonPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807832715
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Focusing on Chicago and downstate Illinois politics during the incredibly oppressive decades between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932_a period that is often described as the nadir of black life in Ame
Voting Assistance Guide
Author: Voting
Author: Bernard R. BerelsonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226043509
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Voting is an examination of the factors that make people vote the way they do. Based on the famous Elmira Study, carried out by a team of skilled social scientists during the 1948 presidential campaign, it shows how voting is affected by social class, religious background, family loyalties, on-the-job relationships, local pressure groups, mass communication media, and other factors. Still highly relevant, Voting is one of the most frequently cited books in the field of voting behavior.
The Fight to Vote
Author: Michael WaldmanPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982198931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
On cover, the word "right" has an x drawn over the letter "r" with the letter "f" above it.
The Timeline of Presidential Elections
Author: Robert S. EriksonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226922162
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
In presidential elections, do voters cast their ballots for the candidates whose platform and positions best match their own? Or is the race for president of the United States come down largely to who runs the most effective campaign? It’s a question those who study elections have been considering for years with no clear resolution. In The Timeline of Presidential Elections, Robert S. Erikson and Christopher Wlezien reveal for the first time how both factors come into play. Erikson and Wlezien have amassed data from close to two thousand national polls covering every presidential election from 1952 to 2008, allowing them to see how outcomes take shape over the course of an election year. Polls from the beginning of the year, they show, have virtually no predictive power. By mid-April, when the candidates have been identified and matched in pollsters’ trial heats, preferences have come into focus—and predicted the winner in eleven of the fifteen elections. But a similar process of forming favorites takes place in the last six months, during which voters’ intentions change only gradually, with particular events—including presidential debates—rarely resulting in dramatic change. Ultimately, Erikson and Wlezien show that it is through campaigns that voters are made aware of—or not made aware of—fundamental factors like candidates’ policy positions that determine which ticket will get their votes. In other words, fundamentals matter, but only because of campaigns. Timely and compelling, this book will force us to rethink our assumptions about presidential elections.
General Election Laws
Author: Washington (State)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Official Vote of the State of Illinois Cast at the General Election ...
Author: Illinois. Office of Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Registration and Election Laws
Author: San Francisco Board of Election CommissionersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description