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Author : Larry Zilliox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971874022
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Opposition Research Handbook written by Larry Zilliox and published by . This book was released on 2006-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Larry Zilliox, Jr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971874015
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Opposition Research Handbook written by Larry Zilliox, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : BPI Information Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781579791964
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (919 download)
Download or read book Opposition Research Handbook written by BPI Information Services and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for the membership of issue oriented grassroots organizations, lobbyists, prosecutors, journalists, etc. Guides the reader through the process of compiling information on political candidates. Includes: tracing donations, conducting library research, profiling a candidate, using election records, investigating campaign spending, uncovering hidden agendas, exposing conflicts of interest, and much more. Contains checklists, sample letters, and forms.
Author : Alan Huffman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062098802
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book We're with Nobody written by Alan Huffman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're With Nobody is a thrilling, eye-opening insider’s view of a little-known facet of the political campaign process: the multi-million dollar opposition research industry, or “oppo” as it’s called. For sixteen years authors Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian have been digging up dirt on political candidates across the country, from presidential appointees to local school board hopefuls. We're With Nobody is a fascinating, riveting, sometimes funny, sometimes shocking look at the unseen side of political campaigning—a remarkable chronicle of a year in the life of two guys on a dedicated hunt to uncover the buried truths that every American voter has a right to know.
Author : van Bergeijk, Peter A.G.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839102721
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Research Handbook on Economic Sanctions written by van Bergeijk, Peter A.G. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter van Bergeijk brings together 40 leading experts from all continents to analyze state-of-the-art data covering the sharp increase in (smart) sanctions in the last decade. Original chapters provide detailed analyses on the determinants of sanction success and failure, complemented with research on the impact of sanctions.
Author : Luigi Curini
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1526486393
Total Pages : 1941 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (264 download)
Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations written by Luigi Curini and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 1941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations offers a comprehensive overview of research processes in social science — from the ideation and design of research projects, through the construction of theoretical arguments, to conceptualization, measurement, & data collection, and quantitative & qualitative empirical analysis — exposited through 65 major new contributions from leading international methodologists. Each chapter surveys, builds upon, and extends the modern state of the art in its area. Following through its six-part organization, undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practicing academics will be guided through the design, methods, and analysis of issues in Political Science and International Relations: Part One: Formulating Good Research Questions & Designing Good Research Projects Part Two: Methods of Theoretical Argumentation Part Three: Conceptualization & Measurement Part Four: Large-Scale Data Collection & Representation Methods Part Five: Quantitative-Empirical Methods Part Six: Qualitative & "Mixed" Methods
Author : Dirk Berg-Schlosser
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1529715431
Total Pages : 2557 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (297 download)
Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Political Science written by Dirk Berg-Schlosser and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 2557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Handbook of Political Science presents a major retrospective and prospective overview of the discipline. Comprising three volumes of contributions from expert authors from around the world, the handbook aims to frame, assess and synthesize research in the field, helping to define and identify its current and future developments. It does so from a truly global and cross-area perspective Chapters cover a broad range of aspects, from providing a general introduction to exploring important subfields within the discipline. Each chapter is designed to provide a state-of-the-art and comprehensive overview of the topic by incorporating cross-cutting global, interdisciplinary, and, where this applies, gender perspectives. The Handbook is arranged over seven core thematic sections: Part 1: Political Theory Part 2: Methods Part 3: Political Sociology Part 4: Comparative Politics Part 5: Public Policies and Administration Part 6: International Relations Part 7: Major Challenges for Politics and Political Science in the 21st Century
Author : Tom Rosenstiel
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062892622
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Oppo written by Tom Rosenstiel and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathless and highly charged political thriller: the story of a senator who is offered the vice presidential slot by both parties’ presidential nominees and then gets ominous threats It’s presidential primary season in Washington, DC, and both parties are on edge. At campaign rallies for all the candidates around the country, there are disturbing incidents of violence and protest and shocking acts of civil disobedience. Rena and Brooks are happy to sit it out. Against this backdrop, Wendy Upton, the highly respected centrist senator, must make a choice: she’s been offered the VP slot by both parties’ leading candidates. When she receives an anonymous, unnerving threat that could destroy her promising career, she hires Peter Rena to investigate her past and figure out which side is threatening her and what they are threatening her with. As Rena digs through the senator’s seemingly squeaky-clean past, he must walk the tightrope between two parties at war with each other and with themselves, an electorate that is as restive as it has ever been, and a political culture that is as much driven by money as it is by ideology.
Author : Michael D. Cohen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538153815
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Modern Political Campaigns written by Michael D. Cohen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Political Campaigns brings together academic, practical, and interviews to help understand how professionalism, technology, and speed have revolutionized elections, creating more voter-centric races for public office. Dr. Michael D. Cohen, a 20+ year veteran of working on, teaching, and writing about political campaigns take readers through how campaigns are organized, state-of-the-art tools of the trade, and how some of the most interesting people in politics got their big breaks. The book takes readers through clear-eyed chapters on parties and elections, campaign planning and management, fundraising, independent groups, vulnerability and opposition research, data and analytics, focus groups and polling, earned, paid and social media, and field operations. Finally, the book revisits the Permanent Campaign in terms of modern approaches to winning elections raising questions about today’s uniform preference for turnout over persuasion and what that means for our American democracy. Modern Political Campaigns will appeal to students and political activists interested in working in political campaigns. It is also a great read for anyone who wants to better understand the nuts and bolts of campaigns in practical terms from professionals, and the opportunities they provide all of us to be more engaged citizens and hold our leaders more accountable each Election Day.
Author : Lilliana Mason
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022652468X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Uncivil Agreement written by Lilliana Mason and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The psychology behind political partisanship: “The kind of research that will change not just how you think about the world but how you think about yourself.” —Ezra Klein, Vox Political polarization in America has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in decades, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable views of their opponents. This is polarization rooted in social identity, and it is growing. The campaign and election of Donald Trump laid bare this fact of the American electorate, its successful rhetoric of “us versus them” tapping into a powerful current of anger and resentment. With Uncivil Agreement, Lilliana Mason looks at the growing social gulf across racial, religious, and cultural lines, which have recently come to divide neatly between the two major political parties. She argues that group identifications have changed the way we think and feel about ourselves and our opponents. Even when Democrats and Republicans can agree on policy outcomes, they tend to view one other with distrust and to work for party victory over all else. Although the polarizing effects of social divisions have simplified our electoral choices and increased political engagement, they have not been a force that is, on balance, helpful for American democracy. Bringing together theory from political science and social psychology, Uncivil Agreement clearly describes this increasingly “social” type of polarization, and adds much to our understanding of contemporary politics.
Author : Will H. Moore
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691159173
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book A Mathematics Course for Political and Social Research written by Will H. Moore and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political science and sociology increasingly rely on mathematical modeling and sophisticated data analysis, and many graduate programs in these fields now require students to take a "math camp" or a semester-long or yearlong course to acquire the necessary skills. Available textbooks are written for mathematics or economics majors, and fail to convey to students of political science and sociology the reasons for learning often-abstract mathematical concepts. A Mathematics Course for Political and Social Research fills this gap, providing both a primer for math novices in the social sciences and a handy reference for seasoned researchers. The book begins with the fundamental building blocks of mathematics and basic algebra, then goes on to cover essential subjects such as calculus in one and more than one variable, including optimization, constrained optimization, and implicit functions; linear algebra, including Markov chains and eigenvectors; and probability. It describes the intermediate steps most other textbooks leave out, features numerous exercises throughout, and grounds all concepts by illustrating their use and importance in political science and sociology. Uniquely designed and ideal for students and researchers in political science and sociology Uses practical examples from political science and sociology Features "Why Do I Care?" sections that explain why concepts are useful Includes numerous exercises Complete online solutions manual (available only to professors, email david.siegel at duke.edu, subject line "Solution Set") Selected solutions available online to students
Author : Marco Giugni
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192605356
Total Pages : 1182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation written by Marco Giugni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of political participation in all its varied forms, investigates a wide range of topics in the field from both a theoretical and methodological perspective, and covers the most recent developments in the area. It brings together research traditions from political science and sociology, bridging the gap in particular between political sociology and social movement studies; contributions also draw on crucial work in psychology, economics, anthropology, and geography. Following a detailed introduction from the editors, the volume is divided into nine parts that explore political participation across disciplines; core theoretical perspectives; methodological approaches; modes of participation; contexts; determinants; processes; outcomes; and current trends and future directions. The book will be a valuable reference work for anyone interested in understanding political participation and related themes.
Author : Justin Parkhurst
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131738086X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Evidence written by Justin Parkhurst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how this influences the ways in which evidence will be used (or misused) within political areas. This book provides new insights into the nature of political bias with regards to evidence and critically considers what an ‘improved’ use of evidence would look like from a policymaking perspective. Part I describes the great potential for evidence to help achieve social goals, as well as the challenges raised by the political nature of policymaking. It explores the concern of evidence advocates that political interests drive the misuse or manipulation of evidence, as well as counter-concerns of critical policy scholars about how appeals to ‘evidence-based policy’ can depoliticise political debates. Both concerns reflect forms of bias – the first representing technical bias, whereby evidence use violates principles of scientific best practice, and the second representing issue bias in how appeals to evidence can shift political debates to particular questions or marginalise policy-relevant social concerns. Part II then draws on the fields of policy studies and cognitive psychology to understand the origins and mechanisms of both forms of bias in relation to political interests and values. It illustrates how such biases are not only common, but can be much more predictable once we recognise their origins and manifestations in policy arenas. Finally, Part III discusses ways to move forward for those seeking to improve the use of evidence in public policymaking. It explores what constitutes ‘good evidence for policy’, as well as the ‘good use of evidence’ within policy processes, and considers how to build evidence-advisory institutions that embed key principles of both scientific good practice and democratic representation. Taken as a whole, the approach promoted is termed the ‘good governance of evidence’ – a concept that represents the use of rigorous, systematic and technically valid pieces of evidence within decision-making processes that are representative of, and accountable to, populations served.
Author : James N. Druckman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521192129
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science written by James N. Druckman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of how political scientists have used experiments to transform their field of study.
Author : David Courpasson
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473959160
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)
Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Resistance written by David Courpasson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen by Library Journal as one of the best reference texts of 2016. Occupy. Indignados. The Tea Party. The Arab Spring. Anonymous. These and other terms have become part of an emerging lexicon in recent years, signalling an important development that has gripped many parts of the world: millions of people are increasingly involved, whether directly or indirectly, in movements of resistance and protestation. However, resistance and its conceptual "companions", protest, contestation, opposition, disobedience and mobilization, all seem to be still mostly seen in public and private discourses as illegitimate and problematic forms of action. The time is, therefore, ripe to delve into the concerns, themes and legitimacy. The SAGE Handbook of Resistance offers theoretical essays enabling readers to forge their own perspectives of what "is" resistance and emphasizes the empirical and experiential dimension of resistance - making strong choices in terms of how contemporary topics related to resistance help to rethink our societies as "protest societies". The coverage is divided into six key sub-sections: Foundations Sites of Resistance Technologies of Resistance Languages of Resistance Geographies of Resistance Consequences of Resistance
Author : Ronald A. Faucheux
Publisher : M. Evans
ISBN 13 : 1590771966
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Winning Elections written by Ronald A. Faucheux and published by M. Evans. This book was released on 2003-10-15 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an advanced guide to running political campaigns. It provides invaluable, practical advice from the leading pros in the industry.
Author : Erica Chenoweth
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231527489
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Why Civil Resistance Works written by Erica Chenoweth and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results, even in Iran, Burma, the Philippines, and the Palestinian Territories. Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail. They find that nonviolent resistance presents fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and that higher levels of participation contribute to enhanced resilience, greater opportunities for tactical innovation and civic disruption (and therefore less incentive for a regime to maintain its status quo), and shifts in loyalty among opponents' erstwhile supporters, including members of the military establishment. Chenoweth and Stephan conclude that successful nonviolent resistance ushers in more durable and internally peaceful democracies, which are less likely to regress into civil war. Presenting a rich, evidentiary argument, they originally and systematically compare violent and nonviolent outcomes in different historical periods and geographical contexts, debunking the myth that violence occurs because of structural and environmental factors and that it is necessary to achieve certain political goals. Instead, the authors discover, violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds.
