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  • I’m Here to Ask for Your Vote

    How Presidential Campaign Visits Influence Voters

    by Christopher J. Devine ...
    During presidential campaigns, candidates crisscross the country nonstop—visiting swing states, their home turf, and enemy territory. But do all those campaign visits make a difference when Election Day comes? If so, how and under what conditions? Do they mobilize the partisan faithful or persuade undecided voters? What do campaigns try to achieve through campaign visits—and when do they succeed?I ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • I’m Here to Ask for Your Vote

    How Presidential Campaign Visits Influence Voters

    by Christopher J. Devine ...
    During presidential campaigns, candidates crisscross the country nonstop—visiting swing states, their home turf, and enemy territory. But do all those campaign visits make a difference when Election Day comes? If so, how and under what conditions? Do they mobilize the partisan faithful or persuade undecided voters? What do campaigns try to achieve through campaign visits—and when do they succeed?I ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Constitutional Law for Criminal Justice

    by Jacqueline R. Kanovitz, Jefferson L. Ingram, Christopher J. Devine ...
    Constitutional Law for Criminal Justice, Sixteenth Edition, offers criminal justice professionals the training they need to recognize the constitutional principles that apply to their daily work. Jacqueline R. Kanovitz, Jefferson L. Ingram, and Christopher J. Devine provide a comprehensive, well-organized, and up-to-date analysis of constitutional issues that affect the U.S. justice system.Chapter ... Read more

    $180.00 USD

  • News Media Coverage of the Vice-Presidential Selection Process

    What's Wrong with the "Veepstakes"?

    by Christopher J. Devine ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides the first systematic, empirical analysis of the media’s approach to US vice-presidential selection (or the “veepstakes”). In their news coverage, Devine finds that media outlets typically treat vice-presidential selection as little more than a game—by focusing on how potential running mates might help to win the election, rather than how they might help the next president to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Do Running Mates Matter?

    The Influence of Vice Presidential Candidates in Presidential Elections

    by Christopher J. Devine, Kyle C. Kopko ...
    The American vice presidency, as the saying goes, “is not worth a bucket of warm spit.” Yet vice presidential candidates, many people believe, can make all the difference in winning—or losing—a presidential election. Is that true, though? Did Sarah Palin, for example, sink John McCain’s campaign in 2008? Did Joe Biden help Barack Obama win? Do running mates actually matter? In the first book to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Studies of Communication in the 2016 Presidential Campaign

    by Hanisha Besant, Molly Greenwood, Christopher Hetherington, Fred Jennings, Henry Kenski, Kate Kenski, Christopher J. Devine, Kyle C. Kopko, Mitchell S. McKinney, Stephen D. Perry, Joan Conners0, Robert E. Denton Jr.1, Michele Rees Edwards3, Lyombe Eko4, Andrew C. Jones5, Theodore Sheckels6, Joseph M. Valenzano III7, Terrence Warburton8 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    This edited collection explores a wide range of communication elements and themes, representing a variety of topics and methodologies. It focuses broadly on the role and function of communication within the context of the 2016 United States presidential election, with chapters devoted to topics including an overview of the election from a communication perspective, the nominations, strategies of ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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  • The Changing Face of Representation

    The Gender of U.S. Senators and Constituent Communications

    by Kim Fridkin, Patrick Kenney ...
    Series series The Cawp Series In Gender And American Politics
    As the number of women in the U.S. Senate grows, so does the number of citizens represented by women senators. At the same time, gender remains a key factor in senators’ communications to constituents as well as in news media portrayals of senators. Focusing on 32 male and female senators during the 2006 congressional election year, Kim L. Fridkin and Patrick J. Kenney examine in detail senators’ ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Insecure Majorities

    Congress and the Perpetual Campaign

    by Frances E. Lee ...
    "[A] tour de force. Building upon her argument in Beyond Ideology, she adds an important wrinkle into the current divide between the parties in Congress." — Perspectives on PoliticsAs Democrats and Republicans continue to vie for political advantage, Congress remains paralyzed by partisan conflict. That the last two decades have seen some of the least productive Congresses in recent history is ... Read more

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  • Legislating in the Dark

    Information and Power in the House of Representatives

    by James M. Curry ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Political science scholar James M. Curry explores the inner workings of Congress's House of Representatives in this thought-provoking analysis.The 2009 financial stimulus bill ran to more than 1,100 pages, yet it wasn't even given to Congress in its final form until thirteen hours before debate was set to begin, and it was passed twenty-eight hours later. How are representatives expected to digest ... Read more

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  • Political Communication & Strategy

    Consequences of the 2014 Midterm Elections

    Edited by Tauna S. Sisco, Jennifer C. Lucas, Christopher J. Galdieri ...
    Some aspects of the 2014 midterm elections would have been unimaginable a decade earlier. SuperPACs spent unlimited amounts of money, candidates used Twitter and other social media to communicate with voters, and Democrats found themselves all but entirely cast out of federal office in the South. Other aspects of the midterm elections, such as primary elections, direct mail, and the hurdles faced ... Read more

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  • Presumed Guilty

    How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights

    by Erwin Chemerinsky ...
    An unprecedented work of civil rights and legal history, Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court has enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses through its decisions over the last half-century.Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other Americans—in fact, nearly one in every thousand will die at the hands, or under the knee, of an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Victory Lab

    The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns

    by Sasha Issenberg ...
    The book Politico calls “Moneyball for politics” shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign—now updated with a new postscript.Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American institution, shoving aside its so-called wise men and replacing them with a radical new data-driven order. We’ve seen it in sports, and now in The Victory ... Read more

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