Elections & Referenda

From a certain perspective, the biggest political story of 2016 was how the candidate who bought three-quarters of the political ads lost to the on...

This volume explores the notion that African leaders are fundamentally responsible for electoral malfeasance throughout the continent. The quagmire...

Electoral and parliamentary arenas play a crucial role in the configuration and dynamics of modern polities. This book explores the practices of ci...

The question of how Donald Trump won the 2016 election looms over his presidency. In particular, were the 78,000 voters who gave him an Electoral C...

American democracy is in deep crisis. But what do we do about it? That depends on how we understand what the crisis actually is. In Breaking the ...

Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from six country studies, Gendered Electoral Financing: Money, Power and Representation in Comparative P...

As a nuclear power, UN Security Council member, emerging Arctic hegemon and the largest state in the world, Russia -- and its stability -- is of ex...

Why don't young people vote? It's a question that has been asked by pollsters for years. The 18- to 24-year-old demographic records the lowest vote...

The U.S. lauds itself as a land of opportunity for both citizens and immigrants, but the country now faces a rash of issues and policies that have ...

A comprehensive look at how violence has been used to manipulate competitive electoral processes around the world since World War IIThroughout thei...

The Britain at the Polls series always asksand answers, often with new insightsthe key questions about British general elections. And few elections...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Keep calm but do not carry on. There is nothing remotely inevitable about Brexit except that it will be deeply damag...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The best polit...

The 2015 General Election is just two months away and whilst the debates are heating up, experts are unanimous on one thing: that this is set to be...

Democratic transitions in the early 1990s introduced a sea change in Sub-Saharan African politics. Between 1990 and 2015, several hundred competiti...

Brilliantly witty and full of irreverent fun, this is a tongue-in-cheek look at Europe by leading cartoonist Kipper Williams, whose work regularly ...

Drawing on twenty-four years of experience in government, Michael H. Armacost explores how the contours of the U.S. presidential election system in...

Fox hunting with Godfrey Bloom; lunching on expenses with Janice Atkinson;talking 'shock and awful' campaign tactics with Douglas Carswell - nothin...

The recent groundswell of support for the Greens has made them something of a dark horse in British politics. Will the party build on Caroline Luca...

The Singapore 2011 General Election was dubbed by some as the first 'Internet' election. How far is this true and to what extent did old and new me...