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This month Bloomsbury Collections features titles on elections. Explore titles below to learn more about elections, voting, organized politics, and political campaigns from a few different places around the world, some of which have recent or upcoming elections or have announced changes to voting laws.
Does the accuracy of the information in political advertising matter—to voting behavior or vote choice––whether turnout goes up or down? Would voting more, while knowing less that is true be sufficient in a democracy? Truth in Advertising? examines how the accuracy of political ad claims, the visuals and sound of ads, and ad tone (particularly negativity) are related to voting behavior, showing the importance of understanding how the accuracy of political ad claims affects voters.
Read this chapter to explore the role of audio and visual elements in political advertising.
Since the so-called Arab Spring, citizens of African countries have continued to use digital tools in creative ways to ensure that marginalised voices are heard, and to demand for the rights they are entitled to in law: to freely associate, to form opinions, and to express them online without fear of violence or arrest. Digital Citizenship in Africa illustrates how citizens have been using VPNs, encryption, and privacy-protecting browsers to resist limits on their rights to privacy and political speech using examples from across the continent.
This chapter analyses the emergence of digital citizenship and asks the question of how Namibian citizens used social media to hold politicians accountable during the 2019 election.
Modern political campaigns are more professional, technologically advanced, and responsive to changing conditions than ever before in human history. In this book, readers will learn how campaigns are organized, state-of-the-art tools of the trade, and how some of the most interesting people in politics got their big breaks. It combines academic insights and practical advice to show how elections are won.
Read this chapter to learn about how data and analytics are used in political campaigns, including voter files, owned data, and predictive modeling.
In July 2025, the UK government announced plans to lower the voting age to 16. Want to learn more about the arguments behind this decision and what can be down to inform and empower young voters? This book explores the arguments and evidence for lowering the voting age.
In this chapter, learn about how citizenship education can be enhanced to support the introduction of votes at 16.
This book argues that the bureaucracy and the Commission on Elections in the Philippines is dysfunctional and covers the impact of corruption on how the state operates. This book uses the unprecedented May 2010 synchronized automation of elections—an attempt at electoral engineering—to better understand the lingering paradox of Philippine politics and its public administration system.
This chapter describes the various attempts at electoral reform in the Philippines, alongside the steady increase of systemic corruption in the country and the implications of these on preserving democracy.
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