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This volume studies elections as a core institution of liberal democracy in the context of newly democratizing countries. Political scientist Staffan I. Lindberg gathers data from every nationally contested election in Africa from 1989 to 2003, covering 232 elections in 44 countries. He argues that democratizing nations learn to become democratic through repeated democratic behavior, even if their elections are often flawed. Refuting a number of established hypotheses, Lindberg finds no general negative trend in either the frequency or the quality of African elections. Rather, elections in Africa, based on his findings, are more than just the goal of a transition toward democracy or merely a formal procedure. T… More >>
Democracy and Elections in Africa
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Democracy and Elections in Africa
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Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America
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The 2000 presidential election meltdown and the more recent controversy about computer voting machines did not come out of the blue. Steal This Vote tells the fraught but very colorful history of electoral malfeasance in the United States. It is a tale of votes bought, stolen, suppressed, lost, cast more than once, assigned to dead people and pets, miscounted, thrown into rivers, and litigated all the way to the Supreme Court. (No wonder America has the lowest voter participation rate of any Western democracy!) Andrew Gumbel—whose work on the new electronic voting fraud has been praised by Gore Vidal and Paul Krugman, and has won a Project Censored Award—shows that, for all the idealism about American de… More >>
Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America
Loser Take All: Election Fraud and The Subversion of Democracy, 2000 – 2008
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“Heading into another presidential race, We the People have to face the fact that our election system is a shambles, run by private corporations with a partisan agenda, and largely based on a technology that anyone can rig. This great book will tell you all about it—and, even more important, help us overcome it.”—Thom Hartmann
“Before Americans get too excited about the next election, they’d do well to remember the stolen elections of 2000 and thereafter. For all the talk of “change,” the corrupt system by which we vote remains broken. Thank heavens for Mark Crispin Miller and his contributors who call not just for awareness, but action”—Laura Flanders
Elections as Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian and Proportional Visions
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An exploration of elections as instruments of democracy. Focusing on elections in 20 democracies over the last quarter of the 20th century, it examines the differences between two great visions of democracy – the “majoritarian” vision and the “proportional influence” vision…. More >>
Elections as Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian and Proportional Visions
Democracy Under Pressure: An Introduction to the American Political System, 2006 Election Update
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Master the fundamentals of American government with DEMOCRACY UNDER PRESSURE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM, 2006 UPDATE! This political science text provides a realistic guide to American politics and institutions while discussing the way democracy responds to challenges from diverse constituencies or dramatic public events. Studying is made easy with student-friendly tools including bold-faced terms, bulleted chapter highlights, and an end-of-chapter list of key terms with page references…. More >>
Democracy Under Pressure: An Introduction to the American Political System, 2006 Election Update
Stealing Elections, Revised and Updated: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
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John Fund explores the real divide the country faces with the looming election. Through wary thoughts on voting integrity, he shows how eletions can be decided by the votes of dead people, illegal felon voters, and absentee voters that simply don’t exist. If nothing is done to address the growing cynicism about vote counting, rest assured that another close presidential election that descends into bitter partisan wrangling is just around the corner…. More >>
Stealing Elections, Revised and Updated: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy
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How American media are failing our democracy, by the authors Bill Moyers calls “the Paul Revere and Tom Paine of our time.”
“As this book makes clear, the problem is deeper than the administration or the right-wing echo chamber…the very structure of our conglomerated media system conspires against real journalism and, hence, against truth.”—Tim Robbins, from the Foreword
Thomas Frank called Tragedy & Farce “an appeal to reason in a dark time. ” Including the sharpest analysis of 2004 election coverage yet and the first detailed look at the burgeoning media reform movement, this book is both an exposé and a call to action. In it John Nichols and Robert McChesney—two of the country’s l… More >>
Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy