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Mixed-Member Electoral Systems
Mixed-member electoral systems may well be the electoral reform of the 21st century. In the view of many electoral reformers, mixed systems offer the best of both the traditional British single-seat district system and PR systems. This book seeks to evaluate: why these systems have recently appealed to many countries with diverse electoral historie.
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Red fighting blue : how geography and electoral rules polarize American politics
\"The national electoral map has split into warring regional bastions of Republican red and Democratic blue, producing a deep and enduring partisan divide in American politics. In Red Fighting Blue, David A. Hopkins places the current partisan and electoral era in historical context, explains how the increased salience of social issues since the 1980s has redefined the parties' geographic bases of support, and reveals the critical role that American political institutions play in intermediating between the behavior of citizens and the outcome of public policy-making. The widening geographic gap in voters' partisan preferences, as magnified further by winner-take-all electoral rules, has rendered most of the nation safe territory for either Democratic or Republican candidates in both presidential and congressional elections - with significant consequences for party competition, candidate strategy, and the operation of government\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Stranger in a Strange State
Candidates normally run for office in the places where they live.
Occasionally, however, a politician will run as a
carpetbagger-someone who moves to a new state for the express
purpose of running, or who runs in one state after holding office
in another. Stranger in a Strange State examines what
makes some politicians take this drastic step and how that shapes
their campaigns and chances for victory. Focusing on races for the
US Senate from 1964 forward, Christopher J. Galdieri analyzes the
campaigns of nine carpetbaggers, including nationally known figures
such as Robert F. Kennedy and Hillary Rodham Clinton and less
well-known candidates like Elizabeth Cheney and Scott Brown. These
case studies draw on archival research, contemporaneous accounts of
each campaign, and scholarship on campaigns and representation.
While the record reveals that it generally takes national political
stature for a carpetbagger to win an election, some recent
campaigns suggest that in today's polarized political era, both
politicians and state political parties might want to be more open
to the prospect of carpetbagging.
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Between Brown and Black
With new momentum, the Brazilian black movement is working to bring attention to and change the situation of structural racism in Brazil. Black consciousness advocates are challenging Afro-Brazilians to define themselves and politically organize around being black, and more Afro-Brazilians are increasingly doing so. Other segments of the Brazilian black movement are working to influence legislation and implement formal mechanisms that aim to promote racial equality, including Affirmative Action Racial Verification Committees. For advocates of these committees, one needs to be phenotypically black enough to be a more likely target of racism to qualify for Affirmative Action programs. Paradoxically, individuals are told to identify as black but only some people are considered black enough to benefit from these policies. Afro-Brazilians are presented with a whole range of identity choices, from how to classify oneself, to whether one votes for political candidates based on shared racial experiences. Between Brown and Black argues that Afro-Brazilian activists’ continued exploration of blackness confronts anti-blackness while complicating understandings of what it means to be black. Blending linguistic and ethnographic accounts, this book raises complex questions about current black struggles in Brazil and beyond, including the black movements’ political initiatives and antiracist agenda.
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The Authentic Appeal of the Lying Demagogue: Proclaiming the Deeper Truth about Political Illegitimacy
We develop and test a theory to address a puzzling pattern that has been discussed widely since the 2016 U.S. presidential election and reproduced here in a post-election survey: how can a constituency of voters find a candidate \"authentically appealing\" (i.e., view him positively as authentic) even though he is a \"lying demagogue\" (someone who deliberately tells lies and appeals to non-normative private prejudices)? Key to the theory are two points: (1) \"common-knowledge\" lies may be understood as flagrant violations of the norm of truth-telling; and (2) when a political system is suffering from a \"crisis of legitimacy\" (Lipset 1959) with respect to at least one political constituency, members of that constituency will be motivated to see a flagrant violator of established norms as an authentic champion of its interests. Two online vignette experiments on a simulated college election support our theory. These results demonstrate that mere partisanship is insufficient to explain sharp differences in how lying demagoguery is perceived, and that several oft-discussed factors—information access, culture, language, and gender—are not necessary for explaining such differences. Rather, for the lying demagogue to have authentic appeal, it is sufficient that one side of a social divide regards the political system as flawed or illegitimate.
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Resilient reporting
This book examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half century in Ireland by means of a unique dataset involving 25m words from newspapers as well as radio and television coverage. The authors examine reporting in terms of framing, tone and the distribution of coverage.They also focus on how the economy has affected election coverage as well as media reporting of leaders and personalities, gender and the effect of the commercial basis of media outlets. The findings - drawn from a machine learning computer system involving a huge content analysis study - will interest academics as well as politicians and policymakers internationally.
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The party politics of the EU and immigration
This book explores the changing nature of party competition in four West European countries. It pays special attention to how different ideological positions give rise to contradictory cues when parties engage with atypical election issues like the EU and immigration.
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Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America
How online humor influences politics and culture in Latin
America
This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive Latin
American perspective on the role of humor in the Spanish- and
Portuguese-language internet, highlighting how the production and
circulation of online humor influence the region's relation to
democracy and civil society and the production of meaning in
everyday life.
Several case studies consider memes, including discussions of
political cartoons in Mexico and imagery that portrays the
mismanagement of natural disasters in Puerto Rico. Essays on Brazil
examine how memes are shared on WhatsApp by Jair Bolsonaro
supporters and how the Instagram account Barbie Fascionista offers
memes as political commentary. Other case studies consider video
content, including the sketches of Argentinian comedian Guillermo
Aquino, the short-form material of Chilean vlogger Germán
Garmendia, and a satirical YouTube column created by journalists in
Colombia. Contributors also offer new methodologies for studying
the laughable on social media, including a model for analyzing fake
Twitter accounts.
Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America
demonstrates that internet humor can generate novel means of public
interaction with the political and cultural spheres and create
greater expectations of governmental accountability and democratic
participation. This volume shows the importance of paying serious
attention to humorous digital content as part of contemporary
culture.
Contributors: Eva Paulina Bueno | Juan Poblete | Alberto
Centeno-Pulido | Damián Fraticelli | Juan Carlos Rodríguez | Viktor
Chagas | Paul Alonso | Ulisses Sawczuk da Silva | Héctor Fernández
L'Hoeste | Alejandra Nallely Collado Campos | R. Sánchez-Rivera |
Mélodine Sommier | Fábio Marques de Souza
A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture
in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan
Carlos Rodríguez
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the
Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
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