There's "nothing to encourage presidential candidates to get uglier" in their debates, according to a new book by three members of Central Michigan University's communication faculty.
The Democracy Fellows Project at Wake Forest University helped students learn a new way of talking about politics without the polarized debate that turns young people off. Projects took students from campus to the broader community and helped them realize their own power to influence the democratic process.
As the political process has gone high-tech, a URI political science professor is examining the influence of the Internet on individuals during political campaigns. He is available to comment throughout this year's presidential campaign.
Forget billboards, direct mail, even newspaper and radio ads. If you really want to reach people and win a 21st-century election, the Internet is a must "“ and you can thank a wrestler-turned-politician for the idea.
The Bradley effect may be alive and multiplying after Super Tuesday. Sifting through overnight results, University of Washington researchers have found that race still plays a role in American politics and it showed up Tuesday in surprising ways in the tallies from four states holding Democratic primary elections.
Political scientist uses data from the last eight presidential elections to examine the 2008 primaries.
Voter turnout on Super Tuesday, and in earlier primaries, is on pace to break the record turnout seen during the 1972 presidential primaries. With 27 percent of eligible citizens voting in primaries so far, this year's primary turnout will eclipse the 25.9 percent average recorded in 1972, according to a preliminary Presidential primary report issued today by American University's Center for the Study of the American Electorate (CSAE).
USC Marshall expert available to discuss election impacts of social networking and other new-media technologies. How are social-networking technologies transforming this year's election? With Super Tuesday's tsunami of state primaries about to crest, some campaigns have effectively harnessed the power of many-to-many communications technologies such as social networking, while others have struggled. Social networking is this generation's equivalent of the television in 1968 or radio in 1932, a once-a-generation transformative media platform that reshapes the political discourse for those politicians savvy enough to understand it.
Randall Miller, Ph.D., political expert and commentator offers insights into the role Pennsylvania might play in the presidential election after the votes are tallied on Super Tuesday.
With 22 states in play in the Super Tuesday (Feb. 5) jockeying for the White House, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has experts able to analyze the race, its many moving parts and what Tuesday's primary and caucus results might mean for Wisconsin's Feb. 19 primary.
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