Letting the People Decide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Letting the People Decide write by Richard Johnston. This book was released on 1992. Letting the People Decide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Combining existing scholarly literature, historical data, theoretical breadth, analytic innovation, and, most important, their own rich and extensive survey data, the authors come to three main conclusions. The first is that the events of a campaign do have an impact on the final vote. Journalists and candidates take this as a fundamental premise, but until recently, few political scientists concurred. Campaigns, it has long been argued, at most reminded voters about fundamental issues (such as the economy) and voters' long-term predispositions." "Second, the authors assert that history sets the stage for campaigns and constrains their possibilities. Some constraints are shown to be more binding than others and some historical periods to impose more constraints than others. This analysis leads to the construction of a general theory of campaigns, one that can predict when campaigns will and will not be important." "Third, the authors conclude that campaigns can do more than determine which party will hold power; they can also be the occasion for a fundamental realignment. The authors support this view by reference both to their research results and to basic theories of social choice."--BOOK JACKET.
Letting the People Decide
Letting the People Decide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Letting the People Decide write by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. This book was released on 2005. Letting the People Decide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Let the People Decide
Let the People Decide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Let the People Decide write by J. Todd Moye. This book was released on 2004. Let the People Decide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986
Letting the People Decide
Letting the People Decide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Letting the People Decide write by Richard Johnston. This book was released on 1992-09-15. Letting the People Decide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The authors have based the book primarily on data derived from the 1988 Canadian Election Study, for which they were co-investigators. The survey was a "rolling cross-section": a daily tracking of the campaign designed explicitly to monitor electoral dynamics. The multivariate techniques commonly involved in the analysis of campaign data are presented here in an accessible way, as graphs rather than tables. Videotapes of prime time news analyses on CBC, CTV, and SRC outlets, as well as some newspaper commentaries, have been integrated into the survey. This information is contrasted with an analysis of electoral dynamics based on one hundred years of census and electoral data. The authors make a variety of significant arguments about the historical and political basis of the parties' eventual positions on the issue of free trade, the overriding importance of that issue to the 1988 election, the roles of the party leaders, and, perhaps most important, the political impact of campaigns, especially of debates and media coverage. Letting the People Decide brings the study of Canadian parties into the analytical mainstream even as it supplies a new interpretation of a century of elections.
Let the People Decide
Let the People Decide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Let the People Decide write by J. Todd Moye. This book was released on 2006-03-08. Let the People Decide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County. J. Todd Moye examines the social histories of civil rights and white resistance movements in Sunflower, tracing the development of organizing strategies in separate racial communities over four decades. Sunflower County was home to both James Eastland, one of the most powerful reactionaries in the U.S. Senate in the twentieth century, and Fannie Lou Hamer, the freedom-fighting sharecropper who rose to national prominence as head of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Sunflower was the birthplace of the Citizens' Council, the white South's pre-eminent anti-civil rights organization, but it was also a hotbed of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) organizing and a fountainhead of freedom culture. Using extensive oral history interviews and archival research, Moye situates the struggle for democracy in Sunflower County within the context of national developments in the civil rights movement. Arguing that the civil rights movement cannot be understood as a national monolith, Moye reframes it as the accumulation of thousands of local movements, each with specific goals and strategies. By continuing the analysis into the 1980s, Let the People Decide pushes the boundaries of conventional periodization, recognizing the full extent of the civil rights movement.
