Basic Geometry of Voting

Book Description

A surprise is how the complexities of voting theory can be explained and resolved with the comfortable geometry of our three-dimensional world. This book is directed toward students and others wishing to learn about voting, experts will discover previously unpublished results. As an example, a new profile decomposition quickly resolves two centuries old controversies of Condorcet and Borda, demonstrates, that the rankings of pairwise and other methods differ because they rely on different information, casts series doubt on the reliability of a Condorcet winner as a standard for the field, makes the famous Arrow`s Theorem predictable, and simplifies the construction of examples. The geometry unifies seemingly disparate topics as manipulation, monotonicity, and even the apportionment issues of the US Supreme Court.

Customer Reviews:

learn mathematics of voting.......2005-09-11

Great book! Interesting new theory developed to visualize voting systems. Can be technical - best used in conjunction with "Chaotic Elections", which is more of an overview. It is nice to see an application of mathematics that doesn't require a huge amount of mathematical training - just some familiarity with vectors and parametrizations of lines and planes. Accessible to many people interested in how math can be used to model voting systems, from high school onwards.

The most important work since Arrow.......2001-01-19

This book is the most important work in social choice theory since Arrow's (1963) "Social Choice and Individual Values". Professor Saari (now at UC Irvine) used this book in an advanced graduate course I took in Fall 2000, and he covered nearly the entire book in a ten week course (hint to instructors and students: I would not recommend this suicidal pace, unless your students are very ambitious and/or very bright!)

The goal of the book is ambititous, and yet very simple. One of the biggest difficulties with voting theory and social choice is the "curse of integers or discreteness" - when we consider more than three alternatives, the number of alternative arrangements of voter preferences escalates quickly. This means that the main ideas in voting theory cannot usually be represented or analyzed by drawing a picture or using calculus, unlike most ideas in economics (eg the Edgeworth Box, demand/supply etc).

Saari avoids this problem by working with continuous spaces; he uses the geometry of the unit simplex (a familiar tool for most economics grad students) and the unit cube to analyze and explain just about all of the most important issues and results in social choice theory: cycling, manipulation, voting paradoxes, Arrow's theorem, Sen's theorem, the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem, and much, much more.

But the geometric approach is not just a cute pedagogic tool. On the contrary, the methods in this book allow researchers to state and prove new conjectures about voting methods using standard ideas from calculus, linear algebra, and basic high-school geometry; without these tools new results would be nearly impossible to even state, let alone prove.

The writing style is mostly informal, and many statements are not proved rigorously (they have only just recently appeared in the professional journal literature). Depending on your background this is either good or bad; but those with a graduate math background (like myself) can just go to the journals to find the proofs of statements if they so desire.

Probably the best part of the book is that there is a massive collection of problems at the end of each section - and many of the these problems are research questions in their own right. The other fun part of the book is that once you have learned to use Saari's geometric tools, you can create just about any crazy voting paradox you like in a couple of minutes, whereas this previously might have taken months or would constitute an entire research project. Therefore the book is very stimulating for advanced grad students and researchers in the field, as well as those encountering social choice theory for the first time.

Grad students - as a final inducement for reading this book, once you learn Saari's tools, you will be able to embarass about 99% of your professors and fellow students with your newly acquired skills. It is easy to find questions that are simply impossible to answer without using Saari's tools.

I would recommend the book to advanced graduate students in economics, mathematics and political science, and researchers in those fields.

Average customer rating:

Good.

Great book but a bit too expensive...

Why is this book so expensive?

The most misunderstood book in political science

Good as a starting point

An Economic Theory of Democracy
Anthony Downs
Manufacturer: Addison Wesley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Theory | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Elections | Government | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
Public Affairs & Administration | Government | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
General | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
General | Political Science | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
jp-unknown1 | Specialty Stores | Books
All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
Business & Investing | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
Nonfiction | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
Similar Items:

The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Second printing with new preface and appendix (Harvard Economic Studies)

The American Voter

Why Parties?: The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America (American Politics and Political Economy Series)

The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology)

Congress: The Electoral Connection, Second Edition

ASIN: 0060417501

Customer Reviews:

Good........2006-04-06

I was assigned several chapters from this book to read for one of my political science classes. I can't say I've come across any other books like this that describe the nature of electoral politics and realignments when they occur.

My professor did mention that this book revolutionized just how we view the electoral process. A good read, one that I would recommend. Diagrams are useful.

Great book but a bit too expensive... .......2005-12-19

I just finished writing a critique on this book for a core political science class and it's definitely a classic. I would recommend it to all political science majors and anybody interested in voting behavior. But again, why is it so expensive?

Why is this book so expensive?.......2004-09-21

Classic, empirical work in political science. This book is essential for any high school civics teacher, undergraduate political science major, or graduate student ... but why on EARTH is it $40 used?

The most misunderstood book in political science.......2003-09-07

An Economic Theory of Democracy is among the most influential books in political science. It is also among the most misunderstood. The book has 300 pages of content. The famous median voter theorem represents three of them. The remaining 297 pages involve extensions, limitations and generalizations -- exactly the sort of thing that most critics think it lacks. In the end, the book is really about the problems of limited information rather than about a unidimensional spatial model.

Good as a starting point.......2002-11-07

Downs is the seminal piece in rat choice voting behavior - and for good reason. A clear understanding of the Downs theories of voting ties together many strands of work and allows for a good framework for scholars who follow him.

Book Description

A scientific study of the political and economic factors influencing democratic decision making

Customer Reviews:

Fascinating book.......2007-04-28

This is truly a fascinating book. Few books have had a greater influence on my political thought. The initial assumptions have a libertarian bent, but the construction of the argument from there is brilliant. As for an overview of the book, I feel that Mr. Templeman's review below was just about perfect.

High praise with a grain of salt.......2007-01-07

The main contribution of this pathbreaking book is by providing a rationale for the "counter-majoritarian difficulty": Why does society tolerate the "dead hand" of the constitutional framers to limit the freedom of choice of living individuals who wish to undo the constitution? The authors muse that in some previous stage, where individuals cannot identify their future preferences, each individual is threatened by two kinds of risk: The first is that others will attempt to take something that belongs to her and achieve their purpose by popular vote. From this prespective each individual desires that such a popular vote will not be made effectual unless supported by the largest number of participants. The second concern is that individuals might wish, in the future, to appropriate something that belongs to others, and may be thwarted by a popular vote, inimical to their cause. From this second perspective they wish to institute a rule that allows the appropriation to take place with only a minimal number of supportets. Each one of these two perils can be represented by a cost function, where the cost is a function of the number of voters necessary to carry the proposed measure; adding up the two functions generates an aggregate cost schedule for all rational players. The minimum of the aggregate function indicates the optimal number of individuals, as a portion of the voting population, necessary for carrying the proposed measure. If this number is greater than 50% of the population, this fact justifies the entrenchment of entitlements in a constitution. The grain of salt that must be added to this analysis is that the authors do not provide an explanation why that number might be greater than 50% of the population, or what might be the conditions that must be satisfied for the generation of that number.

Foundation for Studying Political Economy.......2006-01-28

A few other reviews have dismissed this book somehow as sloppy and even halarious. I would like to just make sure that the credibility of the work put forth by Buchanan and Tullock is realized. This book, along with a number of other great accomplishments, won James Buchanan a Nobel Prize in economics. To view this work as a right wing rationalization is way off base, study the works of Buchanan and Tullock and you will realize that statement is completely ridiculous.

Classic work in economics and political organization.......2005-03-29

The Calculus of Consent, written by James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, is one of the founding publications of what has since become known as the subdiscipline of public choice, which is the application of tools of economic analysis to the domain of political decision making. In theory, political decisions are made by elected officials in their pursuit of the "general interest" or the "common good", however defined. In reality, however, political decisions reflect the outcome of the workings of a number of interested parties, which includes voters, politicians, career government officials (bureaucrats), special-interest groups, lobbyists, etc., each of whom have their own agendas and interests. When someone appeals to the public interest while making a political argument, more often than not the underlying motive is a matter of self-interest (e.g. teachers' unions angling for larger teacher salaries under the pretext of improving public education). Public choice theory does not mean to be critical or cynical about this. Instead, it is merely intended to be descriptive: that's simply the way the political decision-making process works, and we need to understand this first before we try and improve the world through politics. For his central role in the development of public choice theory, professor Buchanan would go on to earn the 1986 Nobel prize in economics.

The book's main contribution lies in its development of the analysis of political behavior, particularly so-called logrolling (i.e. vote-trading, or political exchange). The Founding Fathers set up our political system in order for the general interest to be served rather than interests that only benefit specific groups at the expense of the rest of the population. But elected officials have learned to circumvent that intent by happily trading their vote on issues on which they don't care one way or the other in exchange for votes on issues about which they do care. All members of the legislature end up voting for each other's pet projects, which all get enacted at taxpayers' expense.

The authors propose that one solution would be to distinguish between legislative rules and constitutional rules. Legislative (statutory) rules may be adopted by simple majority coalitions pursuing their own interests. Constitutional rules, on the other hand, are supposed to be decided on without regard for short-term individual consequences ("what is right in the long run?" instead of "what's good for me today?"). Legislative rules are substantive, constitutional rules are procedural. Constitutional rules are meant to restrict abuse of the legislative process by majority coalitions. The difference between legislative and constitutional rules is perhaps somewhat idealistic. After all, what's to prevent people from voting for or against constitutional rules based on their short-term interest. In theory, people are thought to realize that "what's right" will also benefit them, as everyone else will be bound by the same rules, but in practice it doesn't always quite work that way (e.g. people may be aware that a constitutional balanced budget amendment is the morally right thing to do to prevent saddling their descendants with public debt, but as of yet no such amendment has been enacted). Still, the legislative-constitutional distinction is at least helpful as an analytical device.

As the authors acknowledge, in real life things aren't always quite as black-and-white as they have here been described. Sometimes people--yes, even some politicians--vote according to their conscience rather than according to their own self-interest. But the insights and analysis offered by the book and by public-choice theory more often than not do apply. The book is highly persuasive in demonstrating that democracy's simple-majority voting rule (50 percent plus one vote) does not inherently lead to superior decisions. For example, it offers a convincing explanation for why even in majoritarian democracy, taxes and government spending, whether on public services or on redistribution, are clearly "too large", i.e. larger than the vast majority of Americans would agree to if they were to redesign and rebuild government all over again from scratch today.

Stylistically, the book is light on math and the authors have an elegant writing style. But it is somewhat on the academic side and rather heavy on preliminaries. More comprehensive and more easily digestible treatments of issues of political decision making in a democratic context do exist, but even now, some four decades after its initial publication, the book is still considered a classic work in the history of economics and political organization. Its central section is "a simple logrolling model" (pp. 136-142 in the Buchanan Collected Works edition).

Mixed Feelings.......2005-02-14

The book contains exposition of important insights. Constitutional rules of decision produce political parties as a byproduct. Representative legislatures reduce the cost of collective decision processes. Logrolling is trade in the political context, and so the participants in logrolling benefit from it. When decision authority arises fundamentally from individuals, logrolling will occur. In liberal democracies, the government will tax all persons at a fairly high rate, and the tax law will stipulate numerous special exceptions granting lower rates or exemptions.

On the other hand, the book is difficult to read. The authors mercifully avoid the mathematics that frequently obscures economic thought and creates a facade of ersatz logic. However, wading through the prose is a hard slog, tending to make the concepts unreachable.

We can't be hard on the authors, though. That they articulated the ideas at all is more than the entirety of humanity did in the preceding millenia.

Still one hopes some determined disciple will lucidly render the ideas. Both opportunity and need exist for the story better told.

Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 19901999 (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Average customer rating:

Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 19901999 (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Joshua A. Tucker
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Economic Conditions | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Economic Conditions | International | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Elections | Government | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

General | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Reference | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Non-US Legal Systems | Perspectives on Law | Law | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 0521672554

Book Description

This book examines the effect of economic conditions on election results in five post-communist countries--Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic--in the first decade of post-communist elections. It is the first book length study of economic voting outside of established democracies, as well as one of the few comparative studies of voting in post-communist countries generally. The study relies on an original database composed of regional level economic, demographic, and electoral data, and the analysis features a broadly based comparative assessment of the findings across all twenty elections as well as more focused case study analysis.

Geometry of Voting (Studies in Economic Theory)

Average customer rating:

Geometry of Voting (Studies in Economic Theory)
Donald G. Saari
Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Econometrics | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Theory | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Operations Research | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Elections | Government | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Book Description

Over two centuries of theory and practical experience have taught us that election and decision procedures do not behave as expected. Instead, we now know that when different tallying methods are applied to the same ballots, radically different outcomes can emerge, that most procedures can select the candidate, the voters view as being inferior, and that some commonly used methods have the disturbing anomaly that a winning candidate can lose after receiving added support. A geometric theory is developed to remove much of the mystery of three-candidate voting procedures. In this manner, the spectrum of election outcomes from all positional methods can be compared, new flaws with widely accepted concepts (such as the "Condorcet winner") are identified, and extensions to standard results (e.g. Black's single-peakedness) are obtained. Many of these results are based on the "profile coordinates" introduced here, which makes it possible to "see" the set of all possible voters' preferences leading to specified election outcomes. Thus, it now is possible to visually compare the likelihood of various conclusions. Also, geometry is applied to apportionment methods to uncover new explanations why such methods can create troubling problems.

General Equilibrium and Welfare Economics: An Introduction

Average customer rating:

General Equilibrium and Welfare Economics: An Introduction
James C. Moore
Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Theory | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

All Deals | Blowout Books | Stores | Books

Business & Investing | Blowout Books | Stores | Books

Science | Blowout Books | Stores | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Business & Investing | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Professional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Science | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
Similar Items:

Accessories:

ASIN: 3540314075

Average customer rating:

The Economics of Public Choice
Paddy McNutt
Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Theory | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Political | Philosophy | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1840641932

Book Description

Acclaim for the first edition:

`This authoritative text offers a refreshing insight into traditional public choice territory, using diagrammatic exposition coupled with insightful commentary. Each chapter develops its arguments from the first principles to a comprehensive review of the main issues.'

- Public Administration, Development, and Environment

`A new, insightful and up-to-date survey that covers both the social and public choice literature and the game theoretic approaches to each.'

- Dennis C. Mueller, Universität Wien, Austria

In this fully revised second edition of a well-regarded and popular text, Patrick McNutt presents more ideas and challenges to all those interested in political economy and public choice. The author evaluates a range of public choice concepts including rent-seeking, voting and voter behavior, and the growth of government and bureaucracy. New material in this second edition includes:

• a study of the economic nature of contracts and a review of the `contractual form'

• an updated and elaborated chapter on the application of rent-seeking to antitrust and competition analysis

• the issue of legal barriers to entry and related themes; in particular how a legal barrier can affect consumer welfare

• a critical evaluation of the exchange and allocation of economic power and income inequality in developing countries

Customer Reviews:

A Example of Academics Overshadowing Message.......2003-01-02

I was excited to find this book based on the tittle and book description, mainly because I felt I was going to get a book of facts to bolster my already formed opinions. Well the book did provide facts, lots of facts sometimes not in the best order, but facts none the less. What the author and publisher failed to realize is that in the method the book was written the average reader would find it almost impossible to plod through the text. I had a college statistics professor that was Asian with a very strong accent, and the ability to stand at the front of the room and drone on and on without every moving his body or using the black board (an interesting feat in a math class) that was more lively then this book. I am assuming that even economics professors aged 65 and over would think this book to be dry and dull.

The net effect of the bone dry text and the overwhelming amount of facts, charts and lists of numbers is that a book I was excited to read turned out to be a downright pain to get through. It turned into a labor of love or some sick need to finish the book that finally got me through to the end. I feel like I deserved some medal for completing this thing. Overall the facts are interesting (in small doses) but the written was one that would bore the dead.

The conservatives exposed.......2002-11-10

The myths (or many of them)of the right are given full exposure in this fine book. Well researched and well written, it is a good primer on the delusions of the privledged class (just read some of the other reviews on this page).
Over all a significant contribution to the new analysis of conservative revisionism.

nothing new here.......2001-11-26

Exploiting class envy is as old as civilization itself,and this book is another exercise in just that.I don't question the validity of Mr. Phillips arguments or stasistics.Sure the wealthier get wealthier or at least maintain their wealth from generation to generation(barring catastrophe)but that is because when you are talking in terms of millions of dollars money automatically makes itself grow.Someone worth $5,000,000 this year will with safe,predictable,long-term investments see an increase in their wealth till the day they die.Poor to middle class people on the other hand won't see a great buildup of wealth simply due to the fact that they don't have enough wealth to exponentially grow year after year.Even an idiot can stick $5,000,000 in the bank,leave it alone,and in five or six years have $6,000,000.Of course if you only have $20,000 in the bank it won't ever be much more than $20,000.All societies have an unequal concentration of wealth and always will.Most so-called economic booms do benefit mainly the upper classes while recessions hit the poorest the hardest.Phillips does a thorough job of exposing the boom of the 80's for the myth that it was, but all in all he has written nothing we didn't already know.

Flawed Keynesian Logic Utilized to Indict 'Reaganomics'.......2001-09-26

This book is down right distortive of economic history and the 1980's... Overall, the poor did not get poorer in the 1980's, but quite the opposite. This book is essentially more tired and disproven Keynesian-Socialist views on economics, for people who want to go back to the policies of the 1970's-the era of double-digit inflation and 21% interest rates.

If you want to narrow any imbalance of wealth- do away with the Federal Reserve system, which robs the poor and middle class of their purchasing power through the hidden tax of inflation. The rich are largely able to avoid the inflation crush, because they typically have the bulk of their assets in more 'inflation-proof' liquid assets like stocks, bonds, mutual funds and real estate. If you're not a bleeding heart, get something else like 'A Nation of Millionaires.'

Indispensible guide to the 1980's and beyond.......2000-08-24

Phillips has documented in some detail the massive income shift of the Reagan years. In almost all categories the upper 10% of American families soared, while the remaining 90% either stagnated, or at the lower end, actually declined. The author's exhaustive charts demonstrate statistically what popular opinion could only entertain: the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. An interesting question to pose is why a Republican strategist like Phillips would document this adverse result in such unsparing fashion. Perhaps like some far-seeing conservatives he views a growing income gap as destabilizing to the country, and hopes to bring forth moderating influences.

In any event, the book stands as an excellent reference for understanding the impact of those years. That Phillips does not delve beyond surface movements for deeper explanation is not an objection to the work as a whole. For what he succeeds in doing with considerable authority and as "one of their own", is to revive class bias as the focal point of American politics. Being a conservative, he is not about the business of endorsing class-struggle as a premise of human history or American politics. Nevertheless, his linking of the Reagan era to previous eras of capitalist overreach helps to revive the long submerged story of class-struggle in America. This is an indispensible book for understanding the 1980's and years beyond.

Average customer rating:

Well-written overview, but quite dated

Same old stuff.

Good overview of political scene...

Great primer for learning ins and outs of local campaigning

perfect

Winning Local and State Elections
Ann Beaudry
Manufacturer: Free Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

History | Subjects | Books | Africa | Americas | Ancient | Arctic & Antarctica | Asia | Audiobooks | Australia & Oceania | Books on CD | Books on Cassette | Europe | Gay & Lesbian | Historical Study | Large Print | Middle East | Military | Military Science | Russia | United States | World
General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
General | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
Practical Politics | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
Comparative Government | Political Science | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
Elections | Political Science | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

How to Run for Local Office : A Complete, Step-By-Step Guide that Will Take You Through the Entire Process of Running and Winning a Local Election

The Campaign Manager: Running and Winning Local Elections (Third Edition)

25 Fundraising Secrets

Campaign Craft: The Strategies, Tactics, and Art of Political Campaign Management Third Edition (Praeger Series in Political Communication)

Running for Office: The Strategies, Techniques and Messages Modern Political Candidates Need to Win Elections

ASIN: 0029024900

Book Description

"Invaluable insight for those on the verge of entering electoral politics at the grassroots. In concise, no-holds-barred fashion, (the authors) take the intimidation out of political campaigning and bring it to the door of the average citizen".--Jim Hightower, Texas Commission of Agriculture.

Customer Reviews:

Well-written overview, but quite dated.......2005-05-10

This is another good primer into runner for or managing a local (smaller than state-wide) election. Unfortunately it never made it past a first edition, so while you'll see a 1998 publishing date for the paperback (1st paperback edition), the content itself hasn't been udpated since 1986. Other reviews do a good job of saying what you'll get in the book so I won't be redundant. As many newer texts have come out on the same topic you're much better off with one of them, even "How to Win a Local Election: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide" by Lawrence Grey is a bit more up-to-date. Arent't the fundamentals of running for office still the same? Sure, but many critical elements have changed: leveraging computers for mailing lists + consituent communication, using databases + specialized vendors to create house-by-house targeted street walking maps, the diminished importance of bumper stickers and "chochkies," and the importance of the web. These are all little things, but when added together, they're important. Until this book is updated with a newer edition, you're better off with another book.

Same old stuff........2003-07-13

These books are like Suzie Ormans books, read one and you
have read them all. You would do better to stop reading
and just go do. So get your nose out of the book and talk
to people.

Good overview of political scene..........2002-08-02

This book presents a good overview of running for office, with all the information you need laid out in a logic, concise format. The only concern I have is that it could use a little more info in some areas - several times I thought to myself, "how?" or "what else should I do?" but the book presented no answer - on the whole, though, this is a good, good book.

You know, when I wrote "25 Fundraising Secrets, Raise More Money, Guaranteed" - a book on fundraising for political campaigns - I intended my book to be used in conjunction with a book that presented good, basic political strategy to local campaigns. This is just such a book.

Great primer for learning ins and outs of local campaigning.......2002-02-05

This book is my first on the subject of state and local campaigning. I found the advice very well organized and very useful. Beaudry and Schaeffer provide insightful information on organizing a campaign in general, collecting funds, recruiting volunteers, targetting specific voters, and forming an effective staff.

My only criticism of the book is that it seems a bit dated. While it was published in 1998, it literally makes no mention of the Internet and its potential for local campaigning. Perhaps the authors considered it irrelevant, but my little experience with recent local elections suggests otherwise.

As someone who intends to make a first run for local public office in the next few years, I found the book to be a great primer for learning the many intricacies of organizing a campaign. It is a useful tool for pursuing books on the specifics that Beaudry and Schaeffer outline in their work.

perfect.......2001-08-11

This exactly what I was looking for- I needed a step by step guide to running a campaign and this book came through!! The section on fundraising was a life saver!

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books