Elections & Referenda

The Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group for the Lesotho Parliamentary Elections, held on 26 May 2012. The Group was led by HE Dr Bakili Muluz...

While political history has plenty to say about the impact of Ronald Reagan's election to the presidency in 1980, four Senate races that same year ...

This book is a detailed historical and analytical account of the making of parliamentary opposition in Independent India, based on a wide range of ...

The New Dominion analyzes six key statewide elections to explore the demographic, cultural, and economic changes that drove the transformation of ...

Was the 1959 UK General Election the first television election? Could television be used to create a Party ‘image’? Television and the Political Im...

Of all the great “what if” scenarios in American history, the aftermath of the presidential election of 1880 stands out as one of the most tantaliz...

Times of Transformation positions the watershed 1921 federal election in the context of activist efforts and the revolutionary mood in the years fo...

During the run-up to the 1888 presidential election, Americans flocked to party rallies, marched in endless parades, and otherwise participated zea...

A comprehensive communication analysis of the 2024 presidential campaign Presidential campaigns are more than elections, they are cultural touchsto...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as...

The Free and Independent (1949) looks at Parliament from the point of view of the Elector rather than the Elected. After dealing with the early his...

With the landmark election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932, decades of Republican ascendancy gave way to a half century of Democratic dominanc...

Ranked choice voting (RCV) is an electoral and political reform sweeping across North America, already adopted in a variety of places, including Ne...

The Single Transferable Vote, or STV, is often seen in very positive terms by electoral reformers, yet relatively little is known about its actual ...

In recent years there has been a marked resurgence of interest in the effects of electoral laws on important aspects of politics such as party comp...

Referenda on important public policy questions have come to play a central role in policy making in many states. Referenda, or ballot propositions,...

Electoral Democracy pushes the boundaries of our current understanding of democratic politics and government. Some of the most distinguished schola...

Writing as a newspaper reporter for nearly forty years, Curtis Wilkie covered eight presidential campaigns, spent years in the Middle East, and tra...