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In today’s chaotic world, where the multiplication of information sources creates competing narratives, credibility is the key to winning the war of ideas. This is the reason why governments and corporations resort to astroturfing - creation of ostensibly grassroots movements set up to advance political agendas and commercial campaigns. The democratization of information and polarization of politics offer a perfect storm.

How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in the Republic), his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no-nonsense advice on running a successful campaign.

Barely a year after the self-immolation of a young fruit seller in Tunisia, a vast wave of popular protest has convulsed the Middle East, overthrowing long-ruling dictators and transforming the region’s politics almost beyond recognition. But the biggest transformations of what has been labeled as the “Arab Spring” are yet to come. An insider to both American policy and the world of the Arab public, Marc Lynch shows that the fall of particular leaders is but the least of the changes that will emerge from months of unrest.

In this sweeping history, author Johanna Neuman demonstrates that American women defeated the male patriarchy only after they convinced men that it was in their interests to share political power.

The first book to uncover the hidden and powerful role campaign professionals play in shaping American democracy by delving into the exclusive world of politicos through off-the-record interviews We may think we know our politicians, but we know very little about the people who create them...

In Picking Presidents, Gautam Mukunda sets his sights on presidential candidates, proposing a tested method to assess whether they will succeed or fail if they win the White House. Combining political science, psychology, organizational behavior, and economics, Picking Presidents will enable every American to cast an informed vote.

In the wake of one of the most tumultuous conventions in Republican history, the party of Lincoln nominated in 1940 a prominent businessman and Wall Street attorney for president. Though Wendell Willkie would lose to FDR, David Levering Lewis reveals in this news-making reclamation that the story of this Hoosier-born corporate chairman's life is the story of an America that could have been. Popular for his down-home Midwestern charm and unaffected candor, Willkie possessed a supple intellect and a concealed disdain for political opportunism that, had he not died prematurely, would have revolutionized American politics with its advocacy of bipartisanship and social responsibility.

When the 1944 presidential election campaign geared up late that spring, Franklin D. Roosevelt had already been in office longer than any other president. Sensing likely weakness, the Republicans mounted an energetic and expensive campaign, hitting hard at FDR’s liberal domestic policies and the ongoing cost of World War II. Despite gravely deteriorating health, FDR and his feisty running mate, the unexpected Harry Truman, campaigned vigorously against young governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York.

This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of big data and surveillance. In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American...

In this dazzling report from the campaign trail, Erik Jensen homes in on the insecurities that drive Bill Shorten and the certainties that helped Scott Morrison win. He considers how each man reflects, challenges and comforts the national character. Who are Morrison’s 'quiet Australians'? What did Shorten Labor fail to see? And will fear always trump hope in politics? The Prosperity Gospel sheds new light on the politics of a divided nation.

La lunga campagna populista: E se a rischiare di più fossero i populisti?, di Andrea Bonanni; Riconquistare Livorno: la sinistra sfida i fantasmi nella città che scelse, di Concita De Gregorio; Selfie e rosari la campagna elettorale infinita, di Filippo Ceccarelli; Johnson il ribelle lancia la sfida all'Europa, di Antonello Guerrera; Le donne forti e l'Unione fragile, di Bernardo Valli.

Umbria, alleanza Pd-M5s alla prova del voto: Separati alla meta. Le campagne parallele di Pd e Cinquestelle, di Goffredo De Marchis; Zingaretti: "Il Pd non vuole il voto, ma basta con le liti per cercare visibiltà", di Stefano Cappellini; Governo, anche Conte dice sì. "L'alleanza in Umbria tra Pd e Cinquestelle si può ripetere", di Goffredo De Marchis; Umbria, la foto di gruppo della maggioranza c'è, di Filippo Ceccarelli; Umbria, alla prova del voto: il vero confine tra Pd e M5s, di Claudio Tito.

Ue, il fattore Von der Leyen: Il doppio forno di Ursula, di Andrea Bonanni; Gli ultimi appelli di von der Leyen per convincere Socialisti e Liberali, di Alberto D'Argenio; L'Europa di Ursula von der Leyen, regina per un soffio, di Alberto D'Argenio; Von der Leyen prepara la squadra: sarà donna un commissario su due, di Alberto D'Argenio; D'Alema: "Il voto in Ue dice che i 5S sono autonomi. La sinistra raccolga il segnale", di Goffredo De Marchis.