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1. Politically Correct: The Ultimate Storybook

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2. Is Voting for Young People? (3rd Edition) (Great Questions in Politics)

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3. Winning Elections: Political Campaign Management, Strategy, and Tactics

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4. The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy (Oxford Handbooks)

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5. Bodin: On Sovereignty (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

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7. Need For Nations

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8. The Logic of American Politics

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9. Ron Paul Speaks

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10. Political Science: State of the Discipline (Centennial Edition)

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11. Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America

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12. The Political Ladder: Insider Tips On Getting A Job In Politics

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16. POLITIQUES DE LA TERREUR (HISTOIRE)

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17. Politics: The Basics

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u/hierocles · 4 pointsr/politics

Voting is, frankly, quite easy in most states already. Making it a federal holiday wouldn't massively increase turnout. People who don't vote already aren't going to suddenly vote. It's not as if people are sitting around saying, "Damn, I wish I could vote. But I just don't have time today! If only it was a holiday or something."

Those people, by the simple virtue of caring about voting, are likely the ones who would take the five minutes to fill out an absentee ballot request.

So, that's not really a good reason. And I doubt it's the main reason why people would be opposed to it. There's a cost factor involves in public holidays. Government workers get holiday pay, for one.

Since the idea is to make it a day where people have no obligations other than voting, businesses would lose revenue. Obviously, the economy can't shut down for a day. People will have to work. But that defeats the purpose of the holiday. More states allow people paid time off to vote than don't (23 to 19). That seems like a much better option.

After really thinking about turnout dynamics in the United States, I firmly believe that the only sure way to get to 90%+ levels of turnout is to require people to show up to the polls.

If you're interested in reading about this, I recommend two books:

u/Roisiny · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

Looking good! That's an amazing stash! :D

I found this the other day. I read an excerpt on Tumblr and it just seems like the funniest thing :D Thanks for the contest! <3

u/Just_Another_Staffer · 1 pointr/PoliticalScience

Here is a short reading list that should give you the essentials:

Some of these will read like stories, others are more academic in nature. There is both Canadian and American material included. overall, you should get a pretty good impression of how political campaigns are planned and how they actually roll out.

  1. Burton, M.J. & Shea, D.M. (2010). Campaign craft: The strategies, tactics, and art of political campaign management (4th ed.). Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers. https://www.amazon.com/Campaign-Craft-Strategies-Political-Management/dp/031338343X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1479856930&sr=8-2&keywords=campaign+craft

  2. Green, D.P. & Gerber, A.S. (2015). Get out the vote: How to increase voter turnout (3rd ed.). Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. https://www.amazon.com/Get-Out-Vote-Increase-Turnout/dp/081572568X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479857921&sr=1-1&keywords=get+out+the+vote+how+to+increase+voter+turnout

  3. Thurber, J.A. & Nelson, C.J. (Eds.) (2014). Campaigns and elections American style: Transforming American politics (4th ed.). Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. https://www.amazon.com/Campaigns-Elections-American-Transforming-Politics/dp/0813348358/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479857939&sr=1-1&keywords=Campaign+And+Elections+American

  4. Faucheux, R.A. (Ed.) (2003). Winning elections: Political campaign management, strategy, and tactics. New York: M. Evans & Company. https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Elections-Political-Campaign-Management/dp/1590770269/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479857978&sr=1-1&keywords=Winning+elections%3A+Political+campaign+management%2C+strategy%2C+and+tactics

  5. Issenberg, S. (2012). The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns. New York: Broadway Books. https://www.amazon.com/Victory-Lab-Science-Winning-Campaigns/dp/0307954803/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479858008&sr=1-1&keywords=the+victory+lab+the+secret+science+of+winning+campaigns

  6. Laschinger, J. (2016). Campaign Confessions: Tales from the War Rooms of Politics. Toronto: Dundurn. https://www.amazon.com/Campaign-Confessions-Tales-Rooms-Politics/dp/1459736532/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479858025&sr=1-1&keywords=campaign+confessions

  7. Delacourt, S. (2013). Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose us and we Choose them. Madeira Park, BC: Douglas and McIntyre. https://www.amazon.com/Shopping-Votes-Politicians-Choose-Them/dp/1771621095/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479858059&sr=1-1&keywords=Shopping+for+votes
u/Oliver_BM · 1 pointr/PublicPolicy

I can also strongly recommend Cairney.

If you're interested in how we make policy I recommend reading Eugene Bardach's Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving, which offers an intuitive analysis of policymaking that's beginner friendly.

If you want something more academic and detailed, I'd suggest picking up a secondhand copy of The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy.

u/atnutshionnoy · 2 pointsr/PoliticalScience

[Logic of American Politics ](The Logic of American Politics, 6th Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1452276498/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_mC2Lyb9VQC41H) (link to amazon) is what my very first college course used. Explains things very well and provides current examples which are cool for pulling up in conversation if you're a nerd like me. It's like $20 used.

u/chewingofthecud · 1 pointr/CapitalismVSocialism

Bodin put forward a concept of sovereignty in Six Books of the
Republic
that forms the analytical core of absolute monarchism--that's a good place to start in understanding/challenging it. The Six Books are pretty hefty though, so thankfully Cambridge has published a volume that collects his work on sovereignty by itself.

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

So basically you spent your life so far studying everything from a purely liberal point of view. You might as well look at the other side, too, to gain balanced information. For example you could read this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Need-Nations-Roger-Scruton/dp/1903386330/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1342526550&sr=8-4

u/ProfAbroad · 5 pointsr/PoliticalScience

Political science is a huge field still, so your inquiry is a bit broad. You might consider reviewing some chapters in the Oxford Handbook of Political Science or State of the Discipline to get an overview of some of the topics. Then, perhaps you can use those as a guide to references or more recent works on the subtopics that you might be interested in.

u/matts2 · 1 pointr/Libertarian

Wow, bios have pictures of the subject. Don't worry, I am sure Ron Paul would never do that.

u/shnuffleupagus · 1 pointr/washingtondc

If you are a person of the female persuasion, Women in Government Relations runs a really fantastic course on congressional procedure by Judy Schneider, who is the procedural expert at the library of Congress.

She's also written a book, and if you google her name there's a bunch of reports out there she's done.

u/quick_quip_whip · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

I've never tried them, so I'm just going to guess cherry lemon? If that's a filling?

this book seems hilarious.

u/RomanRoy10 · 1 pointr/washingtondc

The Political Ladder: Insider Tips On Getting A Job In Politics by Alexandra Acker-Lyons

Getting a Job in Politics, and Keeping it by Ben Wetmore

I read both shortly after graduating from college and early on in my career, and they do good job of conveying the the high level of competition for these jobs, they steps you'll need to take, and the sacrifices you'll likely have to make if this is something you're really serious about.

u/Beanybag · 1 pointr/askphilosophy

It is true. The problem of disproportionate influence over the election stems primarily from the electoral college. It's compounded by the spoiler effect, various state winner-take-all policies, and voting laws. Floridian voters during the 2000 Presidential election, for instance, were the primary deciding factor in the election and their votes effectively counted thousands of times more than any other vote in the US.

Another problem caused by the electoral college is that small state votes count for more votes than larger states, proportionally to population. This means voters in a populous state, which is already somewhat discouraging to voters as their vote is likely to mean less (given that state electors are given only to the candidate with the most votes, and not proportionally), but it is also compounded by their vote actually counting for less than in other states.

And of course, the spoiler effect, which plagues most elections in the US, keeps people from being able to actually vote for who they want to vote for and ensures a permanent two-party system. It's kind of difficult to find motivation to vote in the US.

Information in this post gleaned primarily from this book as well as this book. I also recommend FairVote.org.

u/Butter_emails · 1 pointr/politics

It's worth mentioning that the Kenneth Starr report from the last major Special Prosecutor was not only made public, it's easily purchasable.

I realize that many many people these days were either too young to remember this event or simply forgot it, but this thing was everywhere when it came out.

u/joe86s · 0 pointsr/politics

dude, i'm getting pretty sick of this talking down. i wanted to keep this civil, but if you want to continually disparage me, then fuck you, let me explain it to you like the imbecile you are.

media attention and funding are not the only reasons a third party cannot win here (you fuckmuffin)

a winner takes all system in which a candidate with a plurality of votes (hey, retard, plurality means the most votes, but not more than 50%) gets all the votes inherently leads to a two party system. this book (these things, shit brains, are kind of like reddit, but printed on dead trees. also, you don't get to constantly tell the author how much smarter you are) explains why. not that a closed-minded fuck like you will ever read it

again, (and I don't know how to dumb this down any more than I already have) a winner-takes all system like the US makes two party systems very likely. for third parties to flourish, as in Sweden, Denmark, and Germany, there needs to be a system with proportional representation, which is not what we have here in good 'ol 'Murica

as you've pushed this discussion past the point of civil conversation, this is the last time I will be responding to your asinine replies.

sincerely,

fuck you

u/NYSenseOfHumor · 1 pointr/Ask_Politics

> Congress, the Senate, and the Electoral College. How the election works, etc. Just a primer on the basics.

That's a lot of information.

The Congressional Deskbook: The Practical and Comprehensive Guide to Congress is 616 pages and that's just how Congress works, not elections, not the electoral college.

Try the EdX course. Also follow congressional/politics/election reporters on Twitter. Read the Congressional publications, the AP wire, Campaigns and Elections, books by political journalists, stay generally informed.

The AP Gov textbook will give you the official, constitutional how a bill becomes a law but not the practical how the sausage gets made.

u/olympe_d_G · 5 pointsr/france

Je précise d'abord que je ne suis pas spécialiste de la révolution française, mes conseils seront donc plutôt d'ordre général. Je cite quelques ouvrages ci-dessous, que j'ai personnellement trouvés intéressants, mais je tiens surtout à insister sur la méthode pour partir en chasse de bibliographie.

Pour constituer une bibliographie sur un sujet, le mieux est de commencer par des ouvrages généraux (les manuels), des synthèses destinées aux étudiants, etc. Il est possible, selon l'intitulé de ton cours, que ton enseignant t'ai distribué une bibliographie qui en contienne déjà. Sinon, ceux-ci se trouveront en général dans toute Bibliothèque Universitaire, en rayon. A défaut une recherche dans des catalogues universitaires spécialisés (en France, le sudoc est utile, peut permettre une première recherche. Généralement, il est préférable que ces ouvrages généraux soient relativement récents, de façon à ce qu'ils reflètent les dernières avancées de la recherche. Dans le cas d'un sujet comme le tien, tu peux commencer par exemple avec Martin, 2012, Biard, Bourdin, & Marzagalli, 2009 et Dupuy, 2005.

A partir de là, selon le niveau auquel tu te trouves, et selon les consignes qui t'ont été données, il faudra probablement affiner ta problématique et ton sujet et déboucher sur quelque chose d'un peu plus spécialisé. Ce que tu écris ici laisse entendre que tu souhaites plutôt te focaliser sur l'histoire politique/institutionnelle de la Révolution ? Pour trouver des ouvrages plus précis sur le sujet, le mieux est de te tourner vers les bibliographies contenues dans les manuels cités ci-dessus : elles te permettront de t'orienter vers des livres qui traitent plus spécifiquement de la Terreur, comme Biard, 2008, [Gross, 2000] (https://www.amazon.fr/Egalitarisme-jacobin-droits-lhomme-1793-1794/dp/284342013X), ou Wahnich, 2005. Sur un sujet comme la Terreur en particulier, dont les interprétations historiographiques restent l'objet de débats, il est essentiel de lire plusieurs points de vue récents pour se faire une idée des enjeux des débats et de l'état de la recherche actuelle.

Selon, encore une fois, le niveau de spécialisation et de problématisation attendu par tes enseignants, il sera nécessaire dans un troisième temps de plonger dans la bibliographie de ces ouvrages-là pour trouver des articles, des thèses, des ouvrages encore plus focalisés, discutant un seul aspect de la Terreur et/ou te permettant d'explorer des exemples. Si tu es étudiants, il n'est probablement pas attendu de toi que tu te confrontes directement aux sources primaires (archives, etc.), mais ce serait l'étape suivante.

En gros une recherche bibliographique c'est comme un montage de poupées russes : il faut ouvrir les livres un par un pour trouver toujours plus pertinent.

u/frijolita_bonita · 1 pointr/CrappyDesign

u/oofee1 its a poster from 2008

u/farseer2 · 2 pointsr/PoliticalDiscussion

That link is to the 4th edition. Except for the latest edition (7th), you can find inexpensive used copies for other editions, so you could get the 6th edition (from 2013) with more updated examples:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1452276498/ref=sr_1_2_twi_pap_1_olp?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457345357&sr=1-2&keywords=Logic+Of+American+Politics

Not that it matters that much to get an understanding, but if the price is similar, why not?

u/unique0130 · 1 pointr/IRstudies

Auto-correct strikes again! The author's last name is "Tansey". Also apparently the latest version is written with another author. Here's is the Amazon link: Politics: The Basics https://www.amazon.com/dp/0415841429/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_jdluxb7ZK6711

u/ACEmat · 1 pointr/WayOfTheBern

I'm struggling to accept I just read that.

Do you think that because "political science" has the word "political" in it, you're free to ignore the "science" part, and substitute in "opinion"?

Serious question.

Because you just did the equivalent of telling a Mathematician that 5 + 5 = 10 is in fact a matter of opinion.

You just told a Geologist that alternating layers of rock containing organic material being sedimentary rock is actually subjective.

You just told an English professor that two independent clauses needing to be separated by a comma and a conjunction is open to interpretation.

The term "spoiler" is a fixed concept. It's not open to what you "think" it means. The arrogance in thinking so is astounding. A propaganda tool of donors? Are you fucking kidding me? The parties say it because it's a repeated pattern proven time and time again by political scientists like Gabriel Almond and Justin Buchler. I challenge you to read Gabriel's book Comparative Politics Today because it's a good introduction to comparative politics and its theories (to clarify, theories here being scientific theories, not your opinion.)

Political science is not a secret club where we all just spout our opinions on gun control. It's a literal science that dedicates time to studying how voters behave, understanding party actions, concrete cause and effect, international relations, and a host of other topics I doubt you never considered.

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita is a political science who turned international politics and nation reactions into a mathematical problem able to predict actions based on Game Theory as just one example.

And you're going to trounce all of that because, what, you don't want to accept it? You think Political Science is actually just a big conspiracy set up by Big Pharma?

You'll go and trash a Republican for refusing to listen to science on climate change but refuse to listen to science in politics because it disagrees with your view of the world all the same?

Go away.