Elections & Referenda

France Votes analyzes the French elections of 2012 in the context of a France and Europe in crisis. With regard to the economy, Irwin Wall describe...

This study departs from traditional interpretations of cohabitation in French politics, which suggest French institutions are capable of coping whe...

This book addresses how the Conservative Party has re-focused its interest in social policy. Analysing to what extent the Conservatives have change...

This is a comprehensive study of the 2015 general election in Britain designed not only for students and scholars of British politics, but also for...

This book offers a comprehensive examination of midterm elections from the lens of communications and media coverage. Using a wide variety of metho...

From the winner of the 2021 Chinua Achebe Prize for Literature... Determined to overrule the Nigerian President, members of the powerful secret soc...

The Soldier Vote tells the story of how Americans in the armed forces gained the right to vote while away from home. The ability for deployed milit...

Insecure temporary employment is growing in Europe, but we know little about how being in such jobs affects political preferences and behaviour. Co...

This engaging exploration of the French Socialist Party details the exceptional problems that the party has faced and the way it has dealt with the...

This volume offers a comparative analysis of Japanese and Russian politics in the 2010s, examining both domestic dimensions and foreign policy. A b...

The Political Marketing Game identifies what works in political marketing, drawing on 100 interviews with practitioners. It also shows that authent...

Presidential hopefuls frequently claim they are qualified because their job experience is the same as a great president. However they ignore the fa...

One of the greatest political advisers of all time, Niccolo Machiavelli thought long and hard about how citizens could identify great leaders--ones...

By comparing the importance of representative democracy to the EU as enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty with the political systems in the EU's newest m...

An original investigation of the nature of the forces that make members and representatives both loyal and beneficial to a contemporary political p...

Elections capture a sense of national identity and imply a future direction for the nation. The book seeks to unravel how elections and policies ac...

Top scholars of the Middle East set out the history and future of elections in eight Middle East countries. Examining issues associated with electi...

Through critical analysis of Turkey's transformation under the AKP, this book explores the relationship between domestic transformations and global...

Democracy has changed considerably in recent years to the extent that our contemporary understanding differs greatly from long-held democratic valu...

What according to democratic theorists should the ordinary citizen know about politics? What does several decades of empirical research about citiz...

Was the victory of François Hollande, the Socialist challenger to Nicolas Sarkozy, inevitable in the 2012 French Presidential elections? This book ...

Although the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of the election itself...