Cathy Michael
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This Guide
Use this guide to learn a variety ways of contacting your political representatives from various jurisdictions. It also includes information on voting as well as researching political communication. During election season, the name will change from Political Communication to Be Vote Ready.
VOTING GUIDES:
- Vote.org Vote.org is the largest 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan voting registration and get out the vote (GOTV) technology platform in America
- How to Vote: 7 simple steps for beginners This primer was created by an organization called STEPS (Student Training & Education in Public Service).
- League of Women Voters (Tompkins County). They highlight VOTE411 as a great place to find general voting information.
- Tompkins County: Board of Elections I always look at the sample ballot (see left menu); it looks just like the ballot you'll fill out to vote.
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Parties and Elections in America
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The 10th edition of this classic text introduces students to political parties and their critical role in representative democracy at the local, state, and national levels. Students will engage in fully up-to-date discussion of changes to presidential campaigns and elections, the ever-evolving world of campaign finance, rapidly changing media environment and much more. In addition, Parties and Elections in America reflects the authors' continuing emphasis on the foundations of our modern political system by providing historical context throughout the text. The new edition fully incorporates the 2020 and 2022 election cycles as well as the initial run-up to the 2024 election.
Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781538188804Publication Date: 2024 -
Presidential Elections
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Polsby and Wildavsky's classic text, now updated by Stephen Schier and David Hopkins, argues that the institutional rules of the presidential nomination and election processes, in combination with the behavior of the mass electorate, structure the strategic choices faced by politicians in powerful and foreseeable ways. We can make sense of the decisions made by different political actors--incumbents, challengers, Democrats, Republicans, consultants, party officials, activists, delegates, journalists, and voters--by understanding the ways in which their world is organized by incentives, regulations, events, resources, customs, and opportunities. Thoroughly revised and updated, this Sixteenth Edition provides everything students need to know about presidential elections going into the 2024 cycle.
Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781538183724Publication Date: 2023
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Note: This guide was written by the retired Social Science Librarian, John Henderson with updates by Cathy Michael, Communications Librarian.