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| canvassing for political campaigns: Get Out the Vote Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber, 2008-09-01 The first edition of Get Out the Vote! broke ground by introducing a new scientific approach to the challenge of voter mobilization and profoundly influenced how campaigns operate. In this expanded and updated edition, the authors incorporate data from more than one hundred new studies, which shed new light on the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of various campaign tactics, including door-to-door canvassing, e-mail, direct mail, and telephone calls. Two new chapters focus on the effectiveness of mass media campaigns and events such as candidate forums and Election Day festivals. Available in time for the core of the 2008 presidential campaign, this practical guide on voter mobilization is sure to be an important resource for consultants, candidates, and grassroots organizations. Praise for the first edition: Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber have studied turnout for years. Their findings, based on dozens of controlled experiments done as part of actual campaigns, are summarized in a slim and readable new book called Get Out the Vote!, which is bound to become a bible for politicians and activists of all stripes. —Alan B. Kreuger, in the New York Times Get Out the Vote! shatters conventional wisdom about GOTV. —Hal Malchow in Campaigns & Elections Green and Gerber's recent book represents important innovations in the study of turnout.—Political Science Review Green and Gerber have provided a valuable resource for grassroots campaigns across the spectrum.—National Journal |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Ground Wars Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, 2012-02-05 Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic deployment of teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and canvass block by block, house by house, voter by voter. Ground Wars provides an in-depth ethnographic portrait of two such campaigns, New Jersey Democrat Linda Stender's and that of Democratic Congressman Jim Himes of Connecticut, who both ran for Congress in 2008. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen examines how American political operatives use personalized political communication to engage with the electorate, and weighs the implications of ground war tactics for how we understand political campaigns and what it means to participate in them. He shows how ground wars are waged using resources well beyond those of a given candidate and their staff. These include allied interest groups and civic associations, party-provided technical infrastructures that utilize large databases with detailed individual-level information for targeting voters, and armies of dedicated volunteers and paid part-timers. Nielsen challenges the notion that political communication in America must be tightly scripted, controlled, and conducted by a select coterie of professionals. Yet he also quashes the romantic idea that canvassing is a purer form of grassroots politics. In today's political ground wars, Nielsen demonstrates, even the most ordinary-seeming volunteer knocking at your door is backed up by high-tech targeting technologies and party expertise. Ground Wars reveals how personalized political communication is profoundly influencing electoral outcomes and transforming American democracy. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Groundbreakers Elizabeth McKenna, Hahrie Han, 2014 Much has been written about the historic nature of the Obama campaign. The multi-year, multi-billion dollar operation elected the nation's first black president, raised and spent more money than any other election effort in history, and built the most sophisticated voter targeting technology ever before used on a national campaign. What is missing from most accounts of the campaign is an understanding of how Obama for America recruited, motivated, developed, and managed its formidable army of 2.2 million volunteers. Unlike previous field campaigns that drew their power from staff, consultants, and paid canvassers, the Obama campaign's capacity came from unpaid local citizens who took responsibility for organizing their own neighborhoods months--and even years--in advance of election day. In so doing, Groundbreakers argues, the campaign engaged citizens in the work of practicing democracy. How did they organize so many volunteers to produce so much valuable work for the campaign? This book describes how. Elizabeth McKenna and Hahrie Han argue that the legacy of Obama for America extends beyond big data and micro-targeting; it also reinvigorated and expanded traditional models of field campaigning. Groundbreakers makes the case that the Obama campaign altered traditional ground games by adopting the principles and practices of community organizing. Drawing on in-depth interviews with OFA field staff and volunteers, this book also argues that a key achievement of the OFA's field organizing was its transformative effect on those who were a part of it. Obama the candidate might have inspired volunteers to join the campaign, but it was the fulfilling relationships that volunteers had with other people--and their deep belief that their work mattered for the work of democracy--that kept them active. Groundbreakers documents how the Obama campaign has inspired a new way of running field campaigns, with lessons for national and international political and civic movements. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: It's Not You Sara Eckel, 2014-01-07 “Why am I still single?” If you’re single and searching, there’s no end to other people’s explanations, excuses, and criticism explaining why you haven’t found a partner: “You’re too picky. Just find a good-enough guy and you’ll be fine.” “You’re too desperate. If men think you need them, they’ll run scared.” “You’re too independent. Smart, ambitious women always have a harder time finding mates.” “You have low self-esteem. You can’t love someone else until you’ve learned to love yourself.” “You’re too needy. You can’t be happy in a relationship until you’ve learned to be happy on your own.” Based on one of the most popular Modern Love columns of the last decade, Sara Eckel’s It’s Not You challenges these myths, encouraging singletons to stop picking apart their personalities and to start tapping into their own wisdom about who and what is right for them. Supported by the latest psychological and sociological research, as well as interviews with people who have experienced longtime singledom, Eckel creates a strong and empowering argument to understand and accept that there’s no one reason why you’re single—you just are. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Activism, Inc. Dana Fisher, 2006-07-26 An unprecedented look at grassroots level progressive politics, the connection between the young people canvassing on the streets and the national organizations, the different strategies of the Right and the Left, and what happens to the passionate young activists outsourced to the clients of Activism, Inc. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Rules for Revolutionaries Becky Bond, Zack Exley, 2016-11-09 Lessons from the groundbreaking grassroots campaign that helped launch a new political revolution Rules for Revolutionaries is a bold challenge to the political establishment and the “rules” that govern campaign strategy. It tells the story of a breakthrough experiment conducted on the fringes of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign: A technology-driven team empowered volunteers to build and manage the infrastructure to make seventy-five million calls, launch eight million text messages, and hold more than one-hundred thousand public meetings—in an effort to put Bernie Sanders’s insurgent campaign over the top. Bond and Exley, digital iconoclasts who have been reshaping the way politics is practiced in America for two decades, have identified twenty-two rules of “Big Organizing” that can be used to drive social change movements of any kind. And they tell the inside story of one of the most amazing grassroots political campaigns ever run. Fast-paced, provocative, and profound, Rules for Revolutionaries stands as a liberating challenge to the low expectations and small thinking that dominates too many advocacy, non-profit, and campaigning organizations—and points the way forward to a future where political revolution is truly possible. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Politicking Online Costas Panagopoulos, Vassia Gueorguieva, Allison Slotnick, Girish Gulati, Christine Williams, 2009-05-01 Of the many groundbreaking developments in the 2008 presidential election, the most important may well be the use of the Internet. In Politicking Online contributors explorethe impact of technology for electioneering purposes, from running campaigns andincreasing representation to ultimately strengthening democracy. The book reveals how social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook are used in campaigns along withe-mail, SMS text messaging, and mobile phones to help inform, target, mobilize, and communicate with voters. While the Internet may have transformed the landscape of modern political campaigns throughout the world, Costas Panagopoulos reminds readers that officials and campaign workers need to adapt to changing circumstances, know the limits of their methods, and combine new technologies with more traditional techniques to achieve an overall balance. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Political Tool Kit Ron Parsons, 2013-04-18 From city councils to governorships, from county commissioners to coroners, there are thousands of contested or vacant elected offices each year throughout the United States. In Political Tool Kit, author Ron Parsons provides a practical guide for citizens who are seeking an opportunity to participate in the democratic process through political candidacy. Based on his education and personal experience, Ron offers a step-by-step, sequential model that candidates can mold to fit their candidacies by making their campaigns unique. Political Tool Kit merges contemporary and traditional political organizational structures to address a myriad of tasks, such as fundraising, advertising, nominating petitions, and scheduling, while detailing job functions and tasks. This campaign model adopts modern communications tools through optimizing the Internet and cutting-edge mobile devices. It also includes a range of resources, such as a campaign budget, letters to the editor, mailings, and canvassing techniques. Political Tool Kit offers the tools to build a process that enables candidates to grow to their full potential. The winning ideals embedded within a campaign will follow candidates throughout their political careers. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Canvassing Fouad Sabry, 2024-10-09 Canvassing is a comprehensive guide for professionals, students, and enthusiasts of political science. This book details essential strategies for effective voter outreach in today’s electoral landscape, offering a deep dive into the art of canvassing and its role in campaigns. 1: Canvassing - Learn the history and evolution of canvassing as a political strategy. 2: Plurality Voting - Explore how voting systems influence canvassing tactics. 3: Strategic Voting - Understand strategic voting's impact on outreach and voter behavior. 4: Political Campaign - Discover how canvassing integrates with overall campaign strategies. 5: Voter Turnout - Examine techniques for boosting voter turnout through targeted canvassing. 6: Negative Campaigning - Analyze the use of negative campaigning in voter outreach. 7: Get Out the Vote - Explore technologies and methods to mobilize voters on election day. 8: Voter Database - Learn about data-driven approaches that enhance canvassing precision. 9: Grassroots Campaigns - Understand how grassroots organizing boosts local political efforts. 10: U.S. Presidential Election - Study canvassing in the high-stakes presidential campaign context. 11: 2004 Hartlepool By-election - Review a case study on local election canvassing strategies. 12: 2005 New Zealand General Election - Contrast international canvassing practices. 13: Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. - Learn from a leading grassroots organization's outreach methods. 14: Elections in the U.K. - Investigate the impact of canvassing on diverse U.K. elections. 15: 2011 U.K. Alternative Vote Referendum - Review referendum-specific canvassing techniques. 16: 1927 Bosworth By-election - Explore historical canvassing and its modern relevance. 17: 1908 Leeds South By-election - Analyze early 20th-century canvassing strategies and their evolution. 18: 2004 Philippine General Election - Discover canvassing tactics in a diverse political landscape. 19: People's Pledge - Explore issue-based campaigning and its effect on voter engagement. 20: 1930 Paddington South By-election - Investigate how local issues shape canvassing efforts. 21: 2017 Delaware Special Election - Examine district-specific canvassing strategies. Each in Canvassing provides both historical insights and practical guidance, offering tools to succeed in electoral campaigns. Whether you're an expert or a curious political observer, this book presents essential knowledge for mastering the complexities of canvassing in modern elections. |
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| canvassing for political campaigns: The Campaign Manager Catherine Shaw, 2018-03-13 Everything you need to know about Vote by Mail! Successful campaign manager and three-term mayor of Ashland, Oregon, Catherine Shaw presents the must-have handbook for navigating local campaigns. This clear and concise handbook gives political novices and veterans alike a detailed, soup-to-nuts plan for organizing, funding, publicizing, and winning local political campaigns. Finding the right message and targeting the right voters are clearly explained through specific examples, anecdotes, and illustrations. Shaw also provides in-depth information on assembling campaign teams and volunteers, canvassing, how to conduct a precinct analysis, and how to campaign on a shoestring budget. The Campaign Manager is an encouraging, lucid presentation of how to win elections at the local level.The sixth edition has been fully revised to include new and expanded coverage of contemporary campaign management-from digital ads and new social media tools to data-driven voter targeting tactics and vote by mail strategies. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: The Politics Industry Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter, 2020-06-23 Leading political innovation activist Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter bring fresh perspective, deep scholarship, and a real and actionable solution, Final Five Voting, to the grand challenge of our broken political and democratic system. Final Five Voting has already been adopted in Alaska and is being advanced in states across the country. The truth is, the American political system is working exactly how it is designed to work, and it isn't designed or optimized today to work for us—for ordinary citizens. Most people believe that our political system is a public institution with high-minded principles and impartial rules derived from the Constitution. In reality, it has become a private industry dominated by a textbook duopoly—the Democrats and the Republicans—and plagued and perverted by unhealthy competition between the players. Tragically, it has therefore become incapable of delivering solutions to America's key economic and social challenges. In fact, there's virtually no connection between our political leaders solving problems and getting reelected. In The Politics Industry, business leader and path-breaking political innovator Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter take a radical new approach. They ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis—and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework—to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does, and how the duopoly has led to the devastating outcomes we see today. Using this competition lens, Gehl and Porter identify the most powerful lever for change—a strategy comprised of a clear set of choices in two key areas: how our elections work and how we make our laws. Their bracing assessment and practical recommendations cut through the endless debate about various proposed fixes, such as term limits and campaign finance reform. The result: true political innovation. The Politics Industry is an original and completely nonpartisan guide that will open your eyes to the true dynamics and profound challenges of the American political system and provide real solutions for reshaping the system for the benefit of all. THE INSTITUTE FOR POLITICAL INNOVATION The authors will donate all royalties from the sale of this book to the Institute for Political Innovation. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Winning Elections and Influencing Politicians for Library Funding Patrick “PC” Sweeney, John Chrastka, 2018-11-29 As the saying goes, all politics is local. And 90% of funding for public libraries comes from the will of local politicians and, in turn, from local voters. So it's urgent that librarians, library supporters, and anyone interested in running an election or campaign for a library understand the strategies, resources, and tactics necessary for positive political action. Whether election day is four months away or four years away, there are immediate steps library leaders and local library ballot committees should take to help secure a successful ballot initiative later. Written by two experienced library campaigners, this action-driven manual for anyone running a political campaign for libraries dives into proven successful campaigning techniques for rural, suburban, and urban settings;expert analysis on how political perceptions are formed, how political power works, and ways libraries can reach funding or political goals;starting the discussion internally;the right approach to setting up the committee structure, and identifying the core leadership team for the committee;tips on networking, cultivating good relationships with the power players in the community, and building a winning coalition;canvassing and direct voter contact;responding effectively to opposition, including voters who habitually resist taxes or library funding increases;the differences between paid media and earned media; andbest practices for marketing and message development, fundraising, volunteer engagement, and other key areas. Filled with easy to follow strategies, this book will guide ballot committees, librarians, trustees, and library advocates through the process of winning an election for funding their library. LIS students will also benefit from the early exposure to political literacy skills provided by this book. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Hacking the Electorate Eitan Hersh, 2015-06-09 Hacking the Electorate focuses on the consequences of campaigns using microtargeting databases to mobilize voters in elections. Eitan Hersh shows that most of what campaigns know about voters comes from a core set of public records, and the content of public records varies from state to state. This variation accounts for differences in campaign strategies and voter coalitions across the nation. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Mobilizing Inclusion Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Melissa R. Michelson, 2012-10-09 Which get out the vote efforts actually succeed in ethnoracial communities, and why? Analyzing the results from hundreds of original experiments, the authors of this book offer a persuasive new theory to explain why some methods work while others do not. Exploring and comparing a wide variety of efforts targeting ethnoracial voters, the authors present a new theoretical frame: the social cognition model of voting, based on an individual's sense of civic identity, for understanding get out the vote effectiveness. Their book serves as a guide for political practitioners, for it offers concrete strategies to employ in developing future mobilization efforts. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Retooling Politics Andreas Jungherr, Gonzalo Rivero Rodríguez, Gonzalo Rivero, Daniel Gayo-Avello, 2020-06-11 Provides academics, journalists, and general readers with bird's-eye view of data-driven practices and their impact in politics and media. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Political Campaign Communication Judith S. Trent, Robert V. Friedenberg, 2008 Now in its sixth edition, Political Campaign Communication provides a realistic understanding of the strategic and tactical communication choices candidates and their staffs must make as they wage an election campaign. Trent and Friedenberg's classic text has been updated throughout to reflect recent election campaigns, including 2004 and 2006 as well as the early stages of 2008. A new chapter focuses on the use of the Internet. Political Campaign Communication continues to be a classroom favorite and is thoroughly researched, insightful, and is a reader-friendly text. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Going Negative Shanto Iyengar, Stephen Ansolabehere, 2010-05-11 Political advertising has been called the worst cancer in American society. Ads cost millions, and yet the entire campaign season is now filled with nasty and personal attacks. In this landmark six-year study, two of the nation's leading political scientists show exactly how cancerous the ad spot has become. 16 illustrations. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Political Marketing in Canada Alex Marland, Thierry Giasson, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, 2012-02-15 Political parties worldwide are using marketing tools such as targeting and segmentation to win elections. Are these strategies making politicians and governments more responsive to voters’ needs, or do they pose a threat to democracy? Political Marketing in Canada, the first book to ask this question of Canada, considers the consequences of political marketing in the realms of public policy, leadership, and the government-citizen relationship. Through dynamic case studies that range from the resurrection of the Conservative Party, to media accounts of political marketing, to Tim Hortons as a political brand, the authors trace how political marketing is transforming the old system of brokerage politics into a new, distinctly Canadian model. Citizens are now viewed as consumers, and platforms and promises have been repackaged as products. Whether this trend is positive or negative, the authors argue, depends on how politicians and governments carry out political marketing – and its promises – in practice. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: This Is Not Florida Jay Weiner, 2014-02-20 On July 7, 2009, Al Franken was sworn in as Minnesota's junior U.S. senator-eight months after Election Night. In the chill of November 2008, Republican incumbent Norm Coleman led by a slim 215 votes, a margin that triggered an automatic statewide recount of more than 2.9 million ballots. Minnesota's ensuing recount, and the contentious legal and public relations battle that would play out between the Franken and Coleman lawyers and staff, simultaneously fascinated and frustrated Minnesotans and the nation-all while a filibuster-proof Senate hung in the balance. This Is Not Florida is the behind-the-scenes saga of the largest, longest, and most expensive election recount in American history. Reporter Jay Weiner covered the entire recount process-for which he was honored with Minnesota's most prestigious journalism award-following every bizarre twist and turn and its many colorful personalities. Based on daily reporting as well as interviews with more than forty campaign staffers and other participants in the recount, This Is Not Florida dives into the motivations of key players in the drama, including the exploits of Franken's lead attorney Marc Elias, some of the mistakes made by Coleman advisers, and how the Franken team's devotion to data collection helped Franken win the recount by a mere 312 votes. In a fascinating, blow-by-blow account of the historic recount that captivated people nationwide, Jay Weiner gets inside campaign war rooms and judges' chambers and takes the reader from the uncertainties of Election Night 2008, through the controversial State Canvassing Board and a grueling eight-week trial, to an appeal to Minnesota's Supreme Court, and finally to Al Franken's long-awaited and emotional swearing-in. This Is Not Florida presents an important and unforgettable moment in political history that proved that it's never really over until it's actually over |
| canvassing for political campaigns: The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Persuasion Elizabeth Suhay, Bernard Grofman, Alexander H. Trechsel, 2020-04-01 Elections are the means by which democratic nations determine their leaders, and communication in the context of elections has the potential to shape people's beliefs, attitudes, and actions. Thus, electoral persuasion is one of the most important political processes in any nation that regularly holds elections. Moreover, electoral persuasion encompasses not only what happens in an election but also what happens before and after, involving candidates, parties, interest groups, the media, and the voters themselves. This volume surveys the vast political science literature on this subject, emphasizing contemporary research and topics and encouraging cross-fertilization among research strands. A global roster of authors provides a broad examination of electoral persuasion, with international perspectives complementing deep coverage of U.S. politics. Major areas of coverage include: general models of political persuasion; persuasion by parties, candidates, and outside groups; media influence; interpersonal influence; electoral persuasion across contexts; and empirical methodologies for understanding electoral persuasion. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Key Concepts in Political Communication Darren G Lilleker, 2006-01-25 This is a systematic and accessible introduction to the critical concepts, structures and professional practices of political communication. Lilleker presents over 50 core concepts in political communication which cement together various strands of theory. From aestheticisation to virtual politics, he explains, illustrates and provides selected further reading. He considers both practical and theoretical issues central to political communication and offers a critical assessment of recent developments in political communication. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Electing Our Masters Jon Lawrence, 2009-03-26 In this engagingly written history of electioneering in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present, Jon Lawrence explores the changing relationship between politicians and public. Throughout this period, he argues, British politics has been characterized by bruising public rituals intended to bestow legitimacy on politicians by obliging them to face an often irreverent public on broadly equal terms. Face-to-face interaction was central both to the disorderly civic rituals of eighteenth-century politics, and to the Victorian and Edwardian election meeting. Perhaps surprisingly, it also survived in pretty rude health between the wars, despite the emergence of the new mass communication media of radio and cinema. But the same cannot be said of the post-war era and the rise of television. Today most politicians are content merely to offer the semblance of meaningful engagement - walkabouts, canvassing and meetings are all designed to ensure that most senior politicians come into contact only with the smiling faces of that dwindling band, the 'party faithful'. Lloyd George and Churchill might have relished the rough and tumble of a tumultuous public meeting, but their modern counterparts tend to be more risk-averse (and not without reason, given that the cameras are always present to capture their mishaps). But this is not another nostalgic lament for a lost 'golden age'. On the contrary, Electing Our Masters argues that politicians frequently still crave the kudos to be derived from bruising encounters with an irreverent public - hence Tony Blair's so-called 'masochism strategy' in the 2005 election campaign, with its succession of gruelling sessions before live studio audiences. As Lawrence points out, the vital question for today is: can we persuade our broadcasters that such encounters must form a staple of modern, mediated politics? |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Securing the Vote National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Policy and Global Affairs, Committee on Science, Technology, and Law, Committee on the Future of Voting: Accessible, Reliable, Verifiable Technology, 2018-09-30 During the 2016 presidential election, America's election infrastructure was targeted by actors sponsored by the Russian government. Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy examines the challenges arising out of the 2016 federal election, assesses current technology and standards for voting, and recommends steps that the federal government, state and local governments, election administrators, and vendors of voting technology should take to improve the security of election infrastructure. In doing so, the report provides a vision of voting that is more secure, accessible, reliable, and verifiable. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Federal Election Campaign Laws United States, 1997 |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Politics in New Zealand Richard Mulgan, 2013-11-01 This revised edition of a classic introduction to the New Zealand political, constitutional, and electoral system covers recent elections and the constitutional and legal changes that have attracted the attention of the international community. Using a pluralist theory of the state, it describes the history and practice of New Zealand government. Political parties and special-interest groups, the governmental hierarchy, and the public sector are discussed with information on how these different influences affect the political scene. The historical perspective provided offers a vision of the evolutionary nature of New Zealand politics and the interactions that drive changes. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Super PACs Louise I. Gerdes, 2014-05-20 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. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Inside the Campaign Alex Marland, Thierry Giasson, 2020-05-01 Political leaders are the public face of a party during an election campaign. But what type of work is conducted behind the scenes by lesser-known party members attempting to propel their leaders to victory at the federal level in Canada? Inside the Campaign is a behind-the-scenes look at the people involved in an election campaign and the work they do. Each chapter reveals how campaign staffers, as well as by those covering and organizing election-related events, perform their duties and overcome obstacles during the heat of a campaign to get their respective leaders elected. Practitioners and political scientists collaborate to present real-world insights that demystify over a dozen occupations, including campaign chairs, fundraisers, advertisers, platform designers, communication personnel, election administrators, political staff, journalists, and pollsters. Inside the Campaign provides an inside look at, and unparalleled understanding of, the nuts and bolts of running a federal campaign in Canada. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Election Inspector National Learning Corporation, 2012 The Election Inspector Passbook(R) prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: American government and civics; inspection procedures; understand and interpreting written materials; name and number checking; and more. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen Philip N. Howard, 2006 A critical assessment of the role that information technologies have come to play in contemporary campaigns. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Winning Elections Ronald A. Faucheux, 2003-10-15 This is an advanced guide to running political campaigns. It provides invaluable, practical advice from the leading pros in the industry. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Politics Is for Power Eitan Hersh, 2020-01-14 A brilliant condemnation of political hobbyism—treating politics like entertainment—and a call to arms for well-meaning, well-informed citizens who consume political news, but do not take political action. Who is to blame for our broken politics? The uncomfortable answer to this question starts with ordinary citizens with good intentions. We vote (sometimes) and occasionally sign a petition or attend a rally. But we mainly “engage” by consuming politics as if it’s a sport or a hobby. We soak in daily political gossip and eat up statistics about who’s up and who’s down. We tweet and post and share. We crave outrage. The hours we spend on politics are used mainly as pastime. Instead, we should be spending the same number of hours building political organizations, implementing a long-term vision for our city or town, and getting to know our neighbors, whose votes will be needed for solving hard problems. We could be accumulating power so that when there are opportunities to make a difference—to lobby, to advocate, to mobilize—we will be ready. But most of us who are spending time on politics today are focused inward, choosing roles and activities designed for our short-term pleasure. We are repelled by the slow-and-steady activities that characterize service to the common good. In Politics Is for Power, pioneering and brilliant data analyst Eitan Hersh shows us a way toward more effective political participation. Aided by political theory, history, cutting-edge social science, as well as remarkable stories of ordinary citizens who got off their couches and took political power seriously, this book shows us how to channel our energy away from political hobbyism and toward empowering our values. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Learning from Loss Seth Masket, 2020-09-22 The Democrats' decision to nominate Joe Biden for 2020 was hardly a fluke but rather a strategic choice by a party that had elevated electability above all other concerns. In Learning from Loss, one of the nation's leading political analysts offers unique insight into the Democratic Party at a moment of uncertainty. Between 2017 and 2020, Seth Masket spoke with Democratic Party activists and followed the behavior of party leaders and donors to learn how the party was interpreting the 2016 election and thinking about a nominee for 2020. Masket traces the persistence of party factions and shows how interpretations of 2016 shaped strategic choices for 2020. Although diverse narratives emerged to explain defeat in 2016 - ranging from a focus on 'identity politics' to concerns about Clinton as a flawed candidate - these narratives collectively cleared the path for Biden. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: The Dark Lord Thomas Harlan, 2016-01-12 Tom Harlan brings his Oath of Empire series to a shattering conclusion in The Dark Lord. In what would be the 7th Century AD in our history, the Roman Empire still stands, supported by the twin pillars of the Legions and Thaumaturges of Rome. The Emperor of the West, the Augustus Galen Atreus, came to the aid of the Emperor of the East, the Avtokrator Heraclius, in his war with the Sassanad Emperor of Persia. But despite early victories, that war has not gone well, and now Rome is hard-pressed. Constantinople has fallen before the dark sorceries of the Lord Dahak and his legions of the living and dead. Now the new Emperor of Persia marches on Egypt, and if he takes that ancient nation, Rome will be starved and defeated. But there is a faint glimmer of hope. The Emperor Galen's brother Maxian is a great sorcerer, perhaps the equal of Dahak, lord of the seven serpents. He is now firmly allied with his Imperial brother and Rome. And though they are caught tight in the Dark Lord's net of sorcery, Queen Zoe of Palmyra and Lord Mohammed have not relinquished their souls to evil. Powerful, complex, engrossing --Thomas Harlan's Oath of Empire series has taken fantasy readers by storm. The first three volumes, The Shadow of Ararat, The Gate of Fire, and The Storm of Heaven have been universally praised. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Ben Fletcher Peter Cole, 2021-01-12 In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people of color, in keeping with their emphasis on class solidarity and their bold motto: “An Injury to One Is an Injury to All!” Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly tells the story of one of the greatest heroes of the American working class. A brilliant union organizer and a humorous orator, Benjamin Fletcher (1890–1949) was a tremendously important and well-loved African American member of the IWW during its heyday. Fletcher helped found and lead Local 8 of the IWW’s Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union, unquestionably the most powerful interracial union of its era, taking a principled stand against all forms of xenophobia and exclusion. For years, acclaimed historian Peter Cole has carefully researched the life of Ben Fletcher, painstakingly uncovering a stunning range of documents related to this extraordinary man. Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly is the most comprehensive look at Fletcher ever to be published. It includes a detailed biographical sketch of his life and history, reminiscences by fellow workers who knew him, a chronicle of the IWW’s impressive decade-long run on the Philadelphia waterfront in which Fletcher played a pivotal role, and nearly all of his known writings and speeches, thus giving Fletcher’s timeless voice another opportunity to inspire a new generation of workers, organizers, and agitators. This revised and expanded second edition includes new materials such as facsimile reprints of two extremely rare pamphlets on racism from the early twentieth century, more information on his prison years and personal life, additional recollections from friends, greater consideration of Fletcher from a global perspective, and much more. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Funding of Political Parties and Election Campaigns Julie Ballington, 2003 This handbook provides a general description of the different models of political finance regulations and analyses the relationship between party funding and effective democracy. The most important part of the book is an extensive matrix on political finance laws and regulations for about 100 countries. Public funding regulations, ceilings on campaign expenditure, bans on foreign donations and enforcing an agency are some of the issues covered in the study. Includes regional studies and discusses how political funding can affect women and men differently, and the delicate issue of monitoring, control and enforcement of political finance laws. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Federal Election Commission Regulations United States. Federal Election Commission, 1980 |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Merge Left Ian Haney López, 2019-10-01 From the acclaimed author of Dog Whistle Politics, an essential road map to neutralizing the role of racism as a divide-and-conquer political weapon and to building a broad multiracial progressive future Ian Haney López has broken the code on the racial politics of the last fifty years.—Bill Moyers In 2014, Ian Haney López in Dog Whistle Politics named and explained the coded racial appeals exploited by right-wing politicians over the last half century—and thereby anticipated the 2016 presidential election. Now the country is heading into what will surely be one of the most consequential elections ever, with the Right gearing up to exploit racial fear-mongering to divide and distract, and the Left splintered over the next step forward. Some want to focus on racial justice head-on; others insist that a race-silent focus on class avoids alienating white voters. Can either approach—race-forward or colorblind—build the progressive supermajorities necessary to break political gridlock and fundamentally change the country's direction? For the past two years, Haney López has been collaborating with a research team of union activists, racial justice leaders, communications specialists, and pollsters. Based on conversations, interviews, and surveys with thousands of people all over the country, the team found a way forward. By merging the fights for racial justice and for shared economic prosperity, they were able to build greater enthusiasm for both goals—and for the cross-racial solidarity needed to win elections. What does this mean? It means that neutralizing the Right's political strategy of racial division is possible, today. And that's the key to everything progressives want to achieve. A work of deep research, nuanced argument, and urgent insight, Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America is an indispensable tool for the upcoming political season and in the larger fight to build racial justice and shared economic prosperity for all of us. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Campaigns on the Cutting Edge Richard J. Semiatin, 2020-04-10 Campaigns on the Cutting Edge evaluates the current trends of today’s campaigns and assesses the innovative changes these well-tuned organizations are making on the presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial levels. As technology now allows candidates to announce their candidacies online, raise money through web fundraising, and mobilize supporters via smartphones, these increasingly mobile and integrated campaigns face the growing influence of outside interests. The thoroughly updated Fourth Edition looks at the 2018 midterm election and focuses on the rise of fake news, women′s activism in the #MeToo movement, voter ballot access measures, and the ways in which technology increases the volume of information that campaigns use. |
| canvassing for political campaigns: Money for Votes Eric Kramon, 2018 This book explains why vote buying is common in low-income democracies in Africa, and examines its consequences for democratic accountability. |
How to Canvass - represent.us
Political scientists view canvassing as one of the most effective ways to talk to community members. (study results) Canvassing can take place in public locations like grocery …
The Right to Canvass: Frequently Asked Questions
Canvassing is a form of door-to-door solicitation that involves charitable, or non-commercial, solicitors. Canvassing is common in political campaigns, grassroots fundraising, community …
Field and Canvassing Guide - IAFF
• A field program delivers messages directly to the voter and lets them express an opinion or concern directly to your campaign. It’s direct engagement and not passive engagement. • This …
TOOLS ROUNDUP: CANVASSING AND DOOR-KNOCKING
Canvassing refers to going door-to-door in a neighborhood and having conversations about important issues with community members. It is an essential component of organizing. We use …
DOOR-TO-DOOR DEMOCRACY: EXPANDING CANVASSING …
Political canvassing plays a vital role in our democracy—assisting citizens with voter registration, providing civic education, and increasing voter participation—which can play a critical role in …
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Traditional campaign tactics include canvassing, phone banking, and leafletting; numerous studies have demonstrated that such tactics stimulate turnout. Additional studies have shown …
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We have built a rigorous model to use deep canvassing on the phones to scale up a strategy that will both persuade infrequent voters about what is at stake in this electoral cycle and engage …
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Canvassing is a form of charitable, or non-commercial, soliciting, and it is common among political campaigns, grassroots fundraising, community-awareness efforts, and membership drives.
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Canvassing and Campaigning in Residential Areas and Public Places Issue The Canada Elections Act (CEA) sets out the rights of candidates and their representatives to canvass and …
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We use a field experiment in a 2010 general election for local office to identify the persuasive mechanism behind a particular form of campaigning: candidate door-to-door canvassing. In the …
The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on …
findings indicate that personal canvassing is highly effec-tive, much more so than the direct mail and telemarket-ing campaigns that have come to displace it. The impli-cation is that the decline …
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Sep 12, 2013 · campaigns on political participation. In this paper, we exploit the 2012 presidential campaign to assess the aggregate effects of a large-scale campaign on the size and …
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Canvassing As A Political Communication Tool: A Study On …
Jan 30, 2024 · In this study, political communication, political propaganda and electoral campaigns are firstly explained and examined. Secondly, canvassing is to be evaluated in details.
Aggregate Effects of Large-Scale Campaigns on Voter Turnout
voters and campaigns to show that, in the aggregate, campaign efforts have large effects on voter turnout, causing the participation of millions of voters who would otherwise not have …
Changing Strategies in Grassroots Canvassing
political parties call you up or come around and talk to you about the campaign this year? Which party was that?” Their answers, collected across more than fifty years of nationwide election …
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The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on …
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The Effects of Canvassing, Phone Calls, and Direct Mail on …
Political scientists have hypothesized that personal canvassing may mobilize voters more effectively than other modes of contact, such as direct mail or telephone appeals.
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that political engagement is a potentially important moderator. Political appeals might be off-putting to politically disengaged people, and backlash effects might be concentrated among …
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Campaign Activities and Electoral Outcomes in Britain 1979 …
political broadcasting-or party political broadcasts (PPBs) as they are known-were much sought after by the parties.' Previous Literature Political canvassing in Britain saw its origins in the …
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Multiple Dimensions of Mobilization: The Effect of Direct …
political communication upon the Latino electorate, each via two modes of mobilization, direct and indirect. The inclusion of advertisements (both targeted and general) in a model is an …
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a healthy democracy and electoral outcomes, political scientists have long studied the determinants of political participation (e.g., Putna m 2000; Verba, Schlozman, and Brady 1995; …
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Campaigns Janaki Santhiveeran1 · Meghan Orr2 Accepted: 7 November 2022 / Published online: 13 December 2022 ... Keywords Political participation · Political interest · Canvassing · …
Is Political Canvassing Considered Soliciting
Is Political Canvassing Considered Soliciting: Political Campaign Craftsmanship Edward Schwartzman,2017-07-05 Over one billion dollars are spent in presidential election years on …
Participating in Political Campaigns and Elections
The political activity of federal employees is primarily regulated by the Hatch Act (5 U.S.C. §§ 7321-26), which fundamentally supports their right to participate in such activity. Subject to …
No Soliciting Political Canvassing (2024)
No Soliciting Political Canvassing: Knocking on Democracy's Door Bradley Hall,2024-09-18 Knocking on Democracy s Door is the ultimate guide for anyone ready to make a difference in …
What Persuades Voters? A Field Experiment on Political …
A Field Experiment on Political Campaigning Jared Barton Marco Castillo Ragan Petrie Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science George Mason University November 2011 …
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campaigns. The British political system has many core institutional features similar to those of the United States, such as the dominance of two main political parties and a first-past-the-post …
Canvassing As A Political Communication Tool: A Study On …
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Chapter 4 - Field Organizing - Campaign Doctor
problem because campaigns do not make investments in these low-support areas necessary to increase its support. But campaigns can not make long term investments in anything. A …
WomenWinning Campaigns - CAWP
WOMEN WINNING CAMPAIGNS The National Women’s Political Caucus’ Hands-on Guide for Today’s Leaders PREFACE Welcome to this campaign skills training manual and to the …
Political Parties in Culture: Dynamics, Allegiances and Socio …
The utilization of political symbolism in North Dum Dum plays a pivotal role in fostering supporter unity and shaping political campaigns. The utilization of political figures as symbols is a subject …
How to run effective political campaigns in Africa - Shikamo
-Canvassing-Rallies-Getting out the vote-Poll watching 14:30-15:15 Key Elements of Party and Campaign Organisation ... His research focuses on political campaigns, political advertising …
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Helpful Campaign Practices - North Dakota
includes laws relating to political campaigns, political advertising, electioneering, election polls, and the penalties for improper election and campaign conduct. It is a reference source for …
Tuned Out Voters? Media Impact on Campaign Learning
As illustrated in Figure 1, in traditional campaigns political leaders communicated with grass-roots party loyalists via elected representatives and core party activists, ... meetings, party …
Spending, canvassing and electoral success in marginal …
Conservatives’ campaigns were not well targeted in 2017; they also discuss – pp. 308ff. – the parties’ social media campaigns, whose reach cannot readily be accessed through the …
Responsibilities of a Political Director for the CCRP
Job Requirements for a Political Director While the CCRP does not publicly list a specific job description for the Political Director role, typical requirements for such a position, combined …
Is Door-to-Door Canvassing Effective in Europe? - CBS
doorstep, and they might find it invasive to be confronted with political campaigns at their front door. European canvassers and canvassing organizations are also simply less experienced …
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Is it worth door-knocking? Evidence from a United Kingdom …
To process political infor-mation, voters make use of heuristics and cues as “shortcuts” to aid decision-making (Sniderman et al. 1991). While non-partisan campaigns might appeal to “civic …
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political vibe with teams of candidates in line to win the mayoral race, blurring the ward/at-large distinction generally in place in other Canadian municipalities (Koop and Kraemer, 2016). In …
POLITICAL CANVASSING AND CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN …
Political canvassing is the act of surveying voters in a given political district to ask about their voting plans in an upcoming election. Blumenherst (2023) defined political canvassing as an ...
Canvassing is not organizing - libcom.org
Canvassing is not organizing Ray Valentine argues that the skills built in canvassing for an electoral candidate do not translate to organizing workplaces or tenants. This article first …
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canvassing in parliamentary democracies with strict data protection laws. This said, the Obama, Clinton and Trump campaigns made data-driven campaigning and micro-targeting known to a …
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Targeted Door-to-Door Canvassing and the Parti …
tisan culture of the PS, campaigns were mostly about conviction and political conflict. Canvassing was a way for members to assert their identity and 'fight' together. It was mostly about …
Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase …
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Getting out the Vote: Party Mobilization in a Comparative
A long tradition within political science examines the impact of party canvassing on voter participation. Very little of this work, however, is comparative in scope. This essay examines …
DOOR-TO-DOOR DEMOCRACY: EXPANDING CANVASSING …
CANVASSING RIGHTS TO PROMOTE DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION MOLLY GRIFFARD¥ ABSTRACT The act of going door-to-door for a political candidate or cause is a longstanding …
How to Canvass - represent.us
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None of this work would have been possible without the support of organizations, political allies, donors and volunteers, like you. We are grateful to everyone who contributed whatever …
Do Campaign Communications Matter for Civic Engagement?
party canvassing, campaign activism, political interest, trust in government, and attention to the news media, drawing from the series of surveys in the American National Election Studies.
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C Explain the key objectives of any political campaign. C Outline how the financing of federal campaigns is regulated by campaign finance laws. C Determine why campaigns have an …
When campaigns call, who answers? Using observational …
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6 An organization generally makes an independent expenditure when it uses its treasury funds for political advertisements or to make related purchases explicitly calling for election or defeat of …
THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON ELECTIONS: NATIONAL …
on political polarization and the re-emergence of populist politicians in many countries. The U.S. Federal Election Commissioner, for example, has argued that Facebook \has ... get-out-the …
The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail …
American Political Science Review Vol. 94, No. 3 September 2000 The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment ALAN S. GERBER and …
The Utility of AI Technology in Political Campaigns
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s holographic canvassing and Imran Khan’s innovative deployment of AI during his imprison-ment ahead of Pakistan’s elections, highlights prominent ... Political …
Political Campaigns and Big Data - Scholars at Harvard
Contemporary campaigns use data in a number of creative ways, but the ultimate purpose of political data has been – and will be for the foreseeable future – simply providing a list of …
