Elections & Referenda

Upon the 2018 death of George H. W. Bush, pundits and politicians mourned the passing of an exemplar of the statesmanship and bipartisan ethos of a...

Because of its extraordinary consequences and because of Abraham Lincolns place in the American pantheon, the presidential election of 1860 is prob...

Fully examined for the first time in this engrossing book by one of America's preeminent presidential scholars, the election that pitted Woodrow Wi...

Most theories of elections assume that voters and political actors are fully rational. While these formulations produce many insights, they also ge...

A new assessment on the role, influence, and limitations of the Democratic and Republican National Committees in American political development. ...

How American political participation is increasingly being shaped by citizens who wield more resourcesThe Declaration of Independence proclaims eq...

For a growing number of people, democracy has become synonymous with broken promises and abandoned commitments. Governments everywhere are not list...

For a growing number of people, democracy has become synonymous with broken promises and abandoned commitments. Governments everywhere are not list...

Serious and silly, unifying and polarizing, presidential elections have become events that Americans love and hate. Today's elections cost billions...

Winner, 2024 Richard E. Neustadt Book Prize, American Politics Group, Political Studies AssociationThe president of the United States is at once ho...

Winner, 2024 Richard E. Neustadt Book Prize, American Politics Group, Political Studies AssociationThe president of the United States is at once ho...

A groundbreaking argument that the political spectrum today is inadequate to twenty-first century America and a major source of the confusion and h...

Barbara Burrell presents a comprehensive comparative examination of men's and womens candidacies for the U.S. House of Representatives in elections...

The Parliamentary Battle Over Brexit provides answers to those who want to understand the bitter arguments that occurred over Brexit, what might ha...

Affluence, Austerity and Electoral Change in Britain investigates the political economy of party support for British political parties since Tony B...

The Presidential Election of 2020: Donald Trump and the Crisis of Democracy places the election of 2020 within the context of the Trump presidency,...

This book examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half century in Ireland by means of a unique dataset involving 25m words f...

The direct primary stands as one of the most significant and distinctive political reforms of the Progressive era in American history. In this book...

Is Donald Trumps War on the Media new news, fake news, or business as usual? Presidents have always used the media and felt abused by it. Tried and...

The result of the UK referendum in June 2016 on membership of the European Union had immediate repercussions across the UK, the EU and internationa...

The direct primary stands as one of the most significant and distinctive political reforms of the Progressive era in American history. In this book...