Elections & Referenda

This book discusses the words and pictures that constituted coverage of the 1992 presidential campaign on ABC and CNN. It addresses the implication...

The 2008 presidential election, perhaps more so than the typical quadrennial race, will undoubtedly spawn an abundance of scholarly inquiry. The co...

This volume offers an in-depth investigation of the role of new media in the political, social and cultural life in the region of Europe-Asia. By f...

Building on a comprehensive theoretical framework that draws on discursive and ideational approaches to populism, this volume offers a comparative ...

In 2016, Hillary Clinton managed to win the Democratic nomination despite losing young voters to Bernie Sanders by a margin of 73 to 26 percent. Th...

Argo meets Spotlight, as New York Times bestselling author Craig Unger reveals his thirty-year investigation into the secret collusion...

Argo meets Spotlight, as New York Times bestselling author Craig Unger reveals his thirty-year investigation into the secret collusion...

This book focuses on the rise of new challenger parties and the magnitude of their impact on political systems and the existing political order in ...

This book explores the mechanisms and elements of populism to develop new theoretical and methodological approaches. Much as populism has been rese...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE BESTSELLING INSIDER STORY OF WESTMINSTER'S BLOODIEST POWER BATTLESTHE MOST REVEALING POLITICAL MEMOIR OF THE...

Considered the gold standard of political parties texts, this new, eighteenth edition of Party Politics in America moves its comprehensive and auth...

Can autocrats establish representative subnational governments? And which strategies of manipulation are available if they would like to reduce the...

In the United States, politics has become increasingly nationalized in recent years as voter decision-making is now driven by partisan or national ...

Gender, Heteronormativity and the American Presidency places notions of gender at the center of its analysis of presidential campaign communication...

The field of elections and electoral systems, and particularly electoral reform, has exhibited tremendous growth and cross-national appeal over the...

Authoritarianism research has evolved into one of the fastest growing research fields in comparative politics. The newly awakened interest in autoc...

Russia is the worlds largest country, and its politics affect the entire international community. Formally, who exercises the power of government i...

While it has been some time since computer technologies were first introduced to social surveys, their methodological advantages, as well as potent...

Over the past seven decades and more, political parties have become an essential feature of the political landscape of the South Asian subcontinent...

This book adopts an innovative conceptualization and analytical framework to the study of anti-system parties, and represents the first monograph e...

In this volume, researchers explore the effects of the 2016 US Presidential Election on the LGBTQ community from a wide variety of disciplines incl...

Both in Greece in 2012 and Italy in 2013, it took two elections to form a government. A repeat parliamentary contest was required in Greece and the...

Studies of election campaigns have shown an increased employment of websites, weblog tools, email, and social media by political campaigners, as we...

Over the last three decades, electoral reform has moved centre stage in both new and established democracies. In Europe, the post 1989 democratisat...

This title was first published in 2001. Rigging elections in favour of those in power has become a common practice in Bangladesh. Muhammad Yeahia A...

The general elections held in 2014 in India the largest democracy in the world to elect the 16th Lok Sabha brought in dramatic results. This impo...

Ugandas 2016 elections, which returned thirty-year incumbent President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM) in yet another la...

This book examines political activities in the key Latino barrio of five of the nation's principal cities during the 1990 elections: El Barrio of N...

Southern Europe has been at the heart of the European sovereign debt crisis and in the vanguard of the programmes of radical economic austerity imp...

Many authors have alluded to the unique nature of Russias dual transition and its difficult task of simultaneously reforming its economy and polity...

The parliamentary elections of 201516 in Greece, Spain and Portugal had extraordinary consequences, bringing repeat elections, unprecedented proces...

The European Union beyond the Polycrisis? explores the political dynamics of multiple crises faced by the EU, both at European level and within the...

By investigating Sri Lanka as a case study, this book examines whether democracy, compared to authoritarianism, is conducive to post-war reconcilia...

Over the last 30 years referendums have played an increasingly important role in determining government policy. Recent high profile referendums in ...

This comprehensive volume analyses the phenomena of populism and Islamism in Turkey under Justice and Development Party (JDP) rule since 2002, and ...

Drawing on classic and contemporary scholarship and empirical analysis of elections and public expenditures in 80 countries, the author argues for ...

This comprehensive volume provides crucial insights from contemporary academics and practitioners into how positive interventions might be made int...

This title was first published in 2003. This precise and well-structured book focuses on the mechanics (its evolution and the debates it generates)...

Studies of election campaigns have shown an increased employment of websites, weblog tools, email, and social media by political campaigners, as we...