Political Conventions

Author : P. Gabrielle Foreman
Publisher : John Hope Franklin African
ISBN 13 : 9781469654263
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colored Conventions Movement written by P. Gabrielle Foreman and published by John Hope Franklin African. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational rights. Collectively, these essays highlight the vital role of the Colored Conventions in the lives of thousands of early organizers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers, politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black activism"--

Author : Thomas Hudson McKee
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Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The National Conventions and Platforms of All Political Parties, 1789 to 1904 written by Thomas Hudson McKee and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louise I. Gerdes
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 0737768649
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Super PACs written by Louise I. Gerdes and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passage of Citizens United by the Supreme Court in 2010 sparked a renewed debate about campaign spending by large political action committees, or Super PACs. Its ruling said that it is okay for corporations and labor unions to spend as much as they want in advertising and other methods to convince people to vote for or against a candidate. This book provides a wide range of opinions on the issue. Includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives; eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials, and many others.

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Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manner of Selecting Delegates to National Political Conventions with Information on States Holding Presidential Primaries written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stan M. Haynes
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786490306
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First American Political Conventions written by Stan M. Haynes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost two centuries, Americans have relied upon political conventions to provide the nation with new leadership. The modern convention, a four-day, carefully choreographed, prime-time television event designed to portray the party and its candidate in the most favorable light, continues many of the traditions and rules developed during the first conventions in the mid-19th century. This study analyzes the birth of the convention process in the 1830s and follows its development over 40 years, chronicling each of the presidential elections between 1832 and 1872, the leading candidates, and an analysis of the key issues, and memorable speeches and events on the convention floor. Other topics include back-room deal making, "dark horse" candidacies, meeting halls, parades, rallies, and other accompanying hoopla. This volume reveals the origins of a quintessentially American spectacle and sheds new light on an understudied aspect of the nation's political past.

Author : Eric S. Heberlig
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438466404
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Cities and the Politics of Party Conventions written by Eric S. Heberlig and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the politics involved when a city recruits and implements a presidential convention. Political party conventions have lost much of their original political nature, serving now primarily as elaborate infomercials while ratifying the decisions made by voters in state primaries and caucuses. While this activity hasn’t changed significantly since the 1970s, conventions themselves have changed significantly in terms of how they are recruited, implemented, and paid for. American Cities and the Politics of Party Conventions analyzes how and why cities advance through the site selection process. Just as parties use conventions to communicate their policies, unity, and competence to the electorate, cities use the convention selection process to communicate their merits to political parties, businesses and residents. While hosting such a “mega event” provides some direct economic stimulus for host cities, the major benefit of the convention is the opportunity it provides for branding and signaling status. Combining a case studies approach as well as interviews with party and local officials, Eric S. Heberlig, Suzanne M. Leland, and David Swindell bring party convention scholarship up to date while highlighting the costs and benefits of hosting such events for tourism bureaus, city administrators, elected officials, and the citizens they represent. Eric S. Heberlig is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and coauthor (with Bruce A. Larson) of Congressional Parties, Institutional Ambition, and the Financing of Majority Control. Suzanne M. Leland is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and coeditor (with Kurt Thurmaier) of City-County Consolidation: Promises Made, Promises Kept? David Swindell is the Director of the Center for Urban Innovation and Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University.

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Total Pages : 934 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nomination and Election of the President and Vice President of the United States, Including the Manner of Selecting Delegates to National Political Conventions written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Murat Halstead
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
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Download or read book Caucuses of 1860 written by Murat Halstead and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Hudson McKee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The National Conventions and Platforms of All Political Parties, 1789 to 1905 written by Thomas Hudson McKee and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Costas Panagopoulos
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807148989
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rewiring Politics written by Costas Panagopoulos and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century ago, national political parties' nominating conventions for U.S. presidential candidates often resembled wide-open brawls, filled with front-stage conflicts and back-room deals. Today, leagues of advisors precisely plan and carefully script these events even though their outcomes are largely preordained. Rewiring Politics offers the first in-depth exploration of the profound changes in the nominating process to focus on the role of the media. Fourteen luminaries from the worlds of media and politics examine how the technology of "coverage" has transformed conventions over time. As the contributors demonstrate, the story of the evolution of the nominating process cannot be told without the concomitant story of the revolution in mass media. The impact of the media on political conventions has received surprisingly little scholarly attention. Yet few aspects of the American political process have faced such radical alterations in such a short period of time. From the first live television broadcast from a national convention on June 21, 1948, during the Republican convention in Philadelphia, through the advent of cable networks and the Internet, both the presentation and the content of the nominating process has been transformed. Today, because the party's nominee is selected before the event, candidates use their conventions-and convention coverage-as a form of advertising. They design mega-media events to electrify the party faithful and to woo undecided voters by dazzling them. Without a doubt, the contributors conclude, conventions still matter, though their role has changed over the past decades. Rewiring Politics helps readers assess the evolution of conventions in contemporary politics and addresses the implications of these changes on our parties, politics, and society.