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This volume brings together for the first time the British Conservative Political Party General Election Manifestos, dating back to 1900, and including the most recent General Election manifesto of 1997. The project provides an indispensibl… more

NOSTALGIA FOR THE PAST…and FANTASY FOR OUR FUTURES…?The book jacket image tells the story. “Mitt Romney and the Extreme Quest for Free Market (SteamPunk) Capitalism” observes the Republican Party—with Romney—locked into a one-dimensional v… more

Why do people living in different areas vote in different ways? Why does this change over time? How do people talk about politics with friends and neighbours, and with what effect? Does the geography of well-being influence the geography of… more

This analysis of political speeches and televised political interviews in the UK, based on the Annual Party Conferences (1996-2000) and the last five general elections (1983-2001), evaluates the interview skills of politicians and political… more

This volume is the fifth in a series of analyses of elections in the South beginning with the 1984 general elections and continuing in 1988, 1992, and 1996. While the presidential election has been the focus, other important aspects of cont… more

Since 1952, when Eisenhower’s media consultants decided they could warm up the General’s personality and overcome selective exposure by using short spots on television, advertising has played a major role in American presidential campaigns…. more

Lady Carolyne Dryden is a brilliant and gifted young woman operating a policy auction house in London for her father. Late one evening she is brutally beaten, robbed and left to die. A few days later two bodies are found in the same house t… more

Complete text of the speech given by Barack Obama after winning the general election on November 4, 2008. Also includes the full text of the concession speech by John McCain.

This first volume of Margaret Thatcher’s memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circum… more

Following several decades of increased tension and radicalism in Ireland centring on land reform and home rule, Irish desire for independence erupted into full-scale violence in 1916, but following that defeat, the forces pursing independen… more

Election Fever is a political fiction of about 40,000 words which examines the dilemma facing the electorate in an unnamed African country as electioneering campaign gathers momentum.It is a difficult choice between a corrupt party in power… more

Was the 2000 presidential campaign merely a contest between Pinocchio and Dumbo? And did Dumbo miraculously turn into Abraham Lincoln after the events of September 11? In fact, Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman argue in The Press Effe… more

The term is sexist, but just what makes a “chick” go into politics? Third-party politics at that. Gail “for Rail” has run for US Senate in Virginia, not once, but twice. Not an easy thing to do since Virginia requires 10,000 valid signature… more

The U.S. presidential election of 2008 was one of the most significant elections in recent American history. Bringing together leading geographers and political scientists, this authoritative atlas analyzes and maps the campaigns, primaries… more

Andrew Rawnsley’s bestselling book lifts the lid on the second half of New Labour’s spell in office, with riveting inside accounts of all the key events from 9/11 and the Iraq War to the financial crisis and the parliamentary expenses scand… more

Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady tells the fascinating tale of how a young grocer’s daughter became the first female leader of the western world. She reshaped our economy and society, won a war against Argentina to retake the Falklands, def… more

Image Bite Politics is the first book to systematically assess the visual presentation of presidential candidates in network news coverage of elections and to connect these visual images with shifts in public opinion. Presenting the results… more

Ideologically divided and disorganized in 1960, the conservative wing of the Republican Party appeared to many to be virtually obsolete. However, over the course of that decade, the Right reinvented itself and gained control of the party. I… more

Excerpt:ON a certain “Wednesday afternoon in March, the billiard room of the Waldegrave Club, Pall Mall, was the scene of a remarkable occurrence. The Waldegrave, it may be said, parenthetically, is held in much veneration by our country co… more

Was the 2000 presidential campaign merely a contest between Pinocchio and Dumbo? And did Dumbo miraculously turn into Abraham Lincoln after the events of September 11? In fact, Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman argue in The Press Effe… more