Beers&Politics

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  • The Reasoning Voter: Communication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaigns

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    The Reasoning Voter is an insider’s look at campaigns, candidates, media, and voters that convincingly argues that voters make informed logical choices. Samuel L. Popkin analyzes three primary campaigns—Carter in 1976; Bush and Reagan in 1980; and Hart, Mondale, and Jackson in 1984—to arrive at a new model of the way voters sort through commercials and…

  • The Candidate: What It Takes to Win – and Hold – the White House

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    There are two winners in every presidential election campaign: The inevitable winner when it begins–such as Rudy Giuliani or Hillary Clinton in 2008–and the inevitable victor after it ends. In The Candidate, Samuel Popkin explains the difference between them. While plenty of political insiders have written about specific campaigns, only Popkin–drawing on a lifetime of presidential…

  • El príncipe moderno: Democracia, política y poder

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    PABLO SIMÓN Este libro cubre algunos de los aspectos que componen buena parte de los debates y las cuestiones públicas que ocupan la actualidad de nuestro país. La crisis de los partidos, la brecha de representación, el comportamiento electoral, el uso del referéndum, la crisis de la socialdemocracia y los modelos de bienestar son algunos…

  • El feminismo lo cambia todo: Un relato sobre la lucha contra el patriarcado

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    SILVIA CLAVERÍA El feminismo, por fin, ha conseguido un poco de atención en la sociedad y en los medios de comunicación. Nos hacemos preguntas y buscamos respuestas pero, en demasiadas ocasiones, nos encontramos ante falsedades y medias verdades. O incluso ante conceptos indescifrables… ¿Mansplaining, manterruption? Sílvia Claveria nos invita a un viaje por la historia…

  • Poaching Politics: Online Communication during the 2016 US Presidential Election

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    The 2016 US election was ugly, divisive, maddening, and influential. In this provocative new book, Paul Booth, Amber Davisson, Aaron Hess, and Ashley Hinck explore the effect that everyday people had on the political process. From viewing candidates as celebrities, to finding fan communities within the political spectrum, to joining others online in spreading (mis)information,…

  • La política por otros medios

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    Hoy, quien aspira a un cambio político, sea en España o en el resto del mundo, ha de acercarse al mundo de la comunicación. Conocer cómo funciona el big data, cómo una noticia se hace viral o de cómo Google y Facebook están disputando a los medios de comunicación tradicionales el ser las principales fuentes…

  • Política-ficció. L’anàlisi política a través de les sèries de televisió

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    The West Wing, House of Cards, Borgen, Yes Minister, Boss, Okkupert, The Good Wife, 1992 o Show Me a Hero són visions d’una ficció política fortament connectada amb la realitat, fins al punt que a l’espectador li és difícil diferenciar on comença la realitat i on acaba la ficció. L’anàlisi política no pot prescindir del…

  • An Introduction to Political Philosophy

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    Why should some have the right to political power? What would happen without government? How much power should the state have? This is the ideal introduction to political philosophy, combining clarity and a conversational style with a thought provoking account of the central questions in political philosophy. Wolff explores the subject through a series of…

  • Political Biology: Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics

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    This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment. It addresses three main phases in the politicization of heredity: the peak of radical eugenics (1900-1945), characterized by an aggressive ethos of supporting the transformation of human society via biological knowledge; the repositioning,…

  • President Donald Trump and His Political Discourse: Ramifications of Rhetoric via Twitter

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    President Donald Trump and His Political Discourse brings together a diverse collection of perspectives on President Trump’s Twitter rhetoric. Truly unique in its in-depth exploration, the volume demonstrates the ways in which international and U.S. relations, media and «fake news,» and marginalized groups, among other things, have been the subject of President Trump’s tweets. It…