Elections & Referenda

This book explains how voters evaluate women candidates, who votes for them, and why. Women comprise an ever-increasing percentage of the candidate...

These volumes provide an essential comprehensive work of reference for the annual municipal elections that took place each November in the 83 Count...

The authors have based the book primarily on data derived from the 1988 Canadian Election Study, for which they were co-investigators. The survey ...

The authors have based the book primarily on data derived from the 1988 Canadian Election Study, for which they were co-investigators. The survey ...

Frederic C. Schaffer challenges the assumption often made by American scholars that democracy has been achieved in foreign countries when criteria ...

In the two decades since Feminism and Suffrage was first published, the increased presence of women in politics and the gender gap in voting patter...

This study looks at the influence of ideas and think tanks in Britain, contemplating how ideas have shaped politics and society. The purveyors of i...

Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Ind...

Where did the idea for nonpartisan constituency redistributions come from? What were the principal reasons that Canada turned to arm's-length commi...

The British electoral system treats parties disproportionately and differentially. This original study of the fourteen general elections held betwe...

This book explores the nature of electoral change in Britain during the last half century. The period from 1945-70 was the classic era of two-party...

This book gives a thorough account of the electoral process at all levels and in all branches of American government. The book is particularly effe...

Following a normative approach that suggests international norms and standards for elections apply universally, regardless of regime type or cultur...

Often neglected in the study of far right organisations, post-communist Europe recently witnessed the rise and fall of a number of populist radical...

The study of patron-client politics is new to the study of Hong Kong political science. This book examines whether patron-client relations are crit...

As the United States and the countries of Western Europe have sought to promote democratic rule in those parts of the world that have not enjoyed t...

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics offers a critical survey of the field of empirical political science through the collection of a set of...

Party affiliation has long been the driving force behind electoral politics in the United States. Despite this fact, scant attention has been devot...

This is a path-breaking study by leading scholars of comparative politics examining the internal transformations of dominant parties in both author...

About a quarter of all democracies today legally oblige their citizens to vote, making this an important aspect of electoral systems in many settin...

While frustration with various aspects of American democracy abound in the United States, there is little agreement over—or even understanding of—w...

"This is a book that needed to be written. Eric Cantor’s defeat was not only shocking but it runs against everything we teach in our election cours...