Elections & Referenda

In the months before the 2015 election, Lord Ashcroft Polls conducted focus groups all over the country to find out whether the parties' frenetic c...

Electoral data compiled on behalf of The Electoral Commission from the official returns by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, Local Government Ch...

When presidents name justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, they may be making significant decisions in terms of the lasting and direct impact on the ...

The Tallyman''''s Campaign Handbook is the essential guide to what is likley to be Ireland''''s most dramatic election in almost a century. For the...

If there's one thing most people in America - and, indeed, the world - can agree on, it's that Donald Trump isn't a politician. The President-elect...

Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on. - Hamilton, Scotland, 3 November 1967 A young couple, married only one day, join a group of eager SNP su...

In 2015, Nigeria's voters cast out the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Here, A. Carl LeVan traces the political vulnerability of Africa's l...

In 2015, Nigeria's voters cast out the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Here, A. Carl LeVan traces the political vulnerability of Africa's l...

Allegations that widespread voter fraud is threatening to the integrity of American elections and American democracy itself have intensified since ...

Elections in Northern Ireland have long been unique in their political and constitutional magnitude, the melodramatic nature of their accompanying ...

Tracing the evolution of political advertising from 1952 through 2016, Darrell M. West returns with his much anticipated Seventh Edition of Air War...

1960 aims to take us deeper into the campaign than Theodore White's famous The Making of the President, 1960. And it does. Chicago Sun-Times Award-...

No Holding Back tells the story of John Anderson's 1980 presidential campaign. Anderson gave up a safe seat in the House of Representatives, a pos...

Illinois State Senator Rickey Hendon tells it like it is for managing a political campaign of any stripe. A veteran of the Illinois Senate for the ...

Political parties are crucial to British democracy, providing the foundations for mobilising voters. Their constituency branches are key links betw...

Many political observers have expressed doubts as to whether America's leaders are up to the task of addressing major policy challenges. Yet much o...

Political parties are crucial to British democracy, providing the foundations for mobilising voters. Their constituency branches are key links betw...

In recent decades, and particularly since the Supreme court's controversial Citizens United decision, lawmakers and other elites have told American...

In recent decades, and particularly since the Supreme court's controversial Citizens United decision, lawmakers and other elites have told American...

A New York Times bestseller.From CNNs veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, an explosive, first-hand account of the dangers he faces ...

The war is still raging. And [Gene Nichol]s still fighting. John Grisham North Carolina has, since 2013, undergone a greater political sea chang...

The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial,...

Why do dictatorships have elections? Dictatorship and the Electoral Vote analyses the role of elections in two dictatorships that were born in the ...

In developing democracies, political parties built around charismatic personalities, coupled with populist campaigns, often ascend to power. This t...