Elections & Referenda

Are celebrity politics the spice of American public life or a pox on policy progress? This book identifies and measures the attributes of celebriti...

Questions of ethics and politics have a long tradition in the classroom as well as the political world. Those who act in the political realm—includ...

Questions of ethics and politics have a long tradition in the classroom as well as the political world. Those who act in the political realm—includ...

In this book, Costas Panagopoulos examines patterns of candidate emergence in congressional elections over the past five decades—specifically, the ...

Every four years, journalists propel a presidential campaign into the national consciousness. New candidates and issues become features of the poli...

2017 marked the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome and the starting point for today’s European Union. Since then, the project ha...

Rise, Decline and Renewal tells the remarkable story of the Maine Democratic Party – how it suddenly rose from irrelevance in 1954 with the electio...

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram create new ways to market political campaigns and new channels for candidates and voters to interact. This volume i...

Some six decades of socialisation by the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) has ingrained in a majority of Singaporeans the instinct that it is not...

This book examines the history of the generational gap in American politics, with an emphasis on the remarkable contemporary gap.Using data derived...

The European Union has a democracy problem. The polycrisis that has plagued the EU for years has led to a cacophony of voices calling for fundament...

A political junkie’s guide to the 2020 presidential race This book will be the sixth entry into a series that has examined the presidential nominat...

The increase in the "incumbency effect" has long dominated as a research focus and as a framework for interpreting congressional elections. This im...

The volume sheds light on the backsliding process of Turkish democratization from the early 2010's until 2018. In addition to historical contextual...

The Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe represents the standard reference text and practical resource for everybody who anal...

The increase in the "incumbency effect" has long dominated as a research focus and as a framework for interpreting congressional elections. This im...

This book examines to what extent politics in Iceland have been transformed in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.The book focuses on wheth...

This book presents a collection of lessons on how best to run elections and politics, using examples from the Japanese experience and showing how e...

Since the end of the Cold War there have been a number of cases where the democratization process has been turbulent, or even violent. Addressing e...

This volume attempts to examine the many possible causes of Brexit. The conceptual 'peg' on which the volume hangs is that, irrespective of one's v...

Turnout! offers strategies for "emergency elections," like the 2020 races, and addresses the nuts-and-bolts for civic groups and individuals to eff...

Informed by and against the backdrop of the 2019 European Parliament (EP) elections, this innovative book provides a critical assessment of where E...

Across Western Europe, the global financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath not only brought economic havoc but also, in turn, intense political u...

The tenth edition of this respected textbook provides a fresh perspective and a crisp introduction to congressional politics. Informed by the autho...

RSIS Commentary: The Series — Jokowi's Second Term: Emerging Issues is an edited book which focuses on the 2019 presidential election in Indonesia,...

Virtually all academic books on American third parties in the last half-century assume that they have largely disappeared. This book challenges tha...

This book investigates how liberal parties have evolved over time as a party family, in a comparative perspective. Through a discussion of the appl...

Talking Donald Trump examines the language of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign from the perspective of sociocultural linguistics. This book off...

The stunning 2016 election and presidency of Donald Trump was decades in the making. Three trends since the 1960s created the conditions for his t...

As they have every four years since 1992, James W. Ceaser and Andrew E. Busch—now joined by John J. Pitney, Jr.—once again provide the most compreh...

Not Enough Representation: The Disconnect between Congress and Its Citizens examines how representative the United States Congress is among differe...

The campaign finance system regulates campaign contributions and behavior with the intent to eliminate corruption or the potential for corruption i...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of India’s electoral democracy and political system. It provides an in-depth analysis of the 2019 parli...

This book offers the first comparative monograph on the management of elections. The book defines electoral management as a new, inter-disciplinary...

The first book of its kind to provide an accessible overview of the changes Citizens United brought to political campaigns and political representa...

Although the phenomenon of authoritarian elections has been a focal point for the literature on authoritarian institutions for more than a decade, ...

The elections to the 18th Knesset (legislature of Israel) were held on February 10, 2009, almost three years after the elections to the 17th Knesse...

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

Historic Firsts in U.S. Elections:Trailblazing Candidates in Gubernatorial, Congressional, and Mayoral Campaigns examines barrier-breaking figures ...

Informed by and against the backdrop of the 2019 European Parliament (EP) elections, this innovative book provides a critical assessment of where E...

The primary motivation for this book is to focus on something crucial that is missing in Turkish political science: well-founded theories on the Tu...

The suffrage movement remains the largest autonomous political movement of women in British history. The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suf...

Taiwan at a Tipping Point assesses issues relating to Taiwan’s new political, economic, diplomatic and military/strategic state-of-affairs followin...

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram create new ways to market political campaigns and new channels for candidates and voters to interact. This volume i...

This book investigates how liberal parties have evolved over time as a party family, in a comparative perspective. Through a discussion of the appl...

Everything you need to know about election polls can be found in this compact, conversational, and current volume. When it comes to tapping the pub...

Everything you need to know about election polls can be found in this compact, conversational, and current volume. When it comes to tapping the pub...