Elections & Referenda

In this volume, researchers explore the effects of the 2016 US Presidential Election on the LGBTQ community from a wide variety of disciplines incl...

Both in Greece in 2012 and Italy in 2013, it took two elections to form a government. A repeat parliamentary contest was required in Greece and the...

Studies of election campaigns have shown an increased employment of websites, weblog tools, email, and social media by political campaigners, as we...

Over the last three decades, electoral reform has moved centre stage in both new and established democracies. In Europe, the post 1989 democratisat...

This title was first published in 2001. Rigging elections in favour of those in power has become a common practice in Bangladesh. Muhammad Yeahia A...

The general elections held in 2014 in India the largest democracy in the world to elect the 16th Lok Sabha brought in dramatic results. This impo...

Ugandas 2016 elections, which returned thirty-year incumbent President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM) in yet another la...

This book examines political activities in the key Latino barrio of five of the nation's principal cities during the 1990 elections: El Barrio of N...

Southern Europe has been at the heart of the European sovereign debt crisis and in the vanguard of the programmes of radical economic austerity imp...

Many authors have alluded to the unique nature of Russias dual transition and its difficult task of simultaneously reforming its economy and polity...

The parliamentary elections of 201516 in Greece, Spain and Portugal had extraordinary consequences, bringing repeat elections, unprecedented proces...

The European Union beyond the Polycrisis? explores the political dynamics of multiple crises faced by the EU, both at European level and within the...

By investigating Sri Lanka as a case study, this book examines whether democracy, compared to authoritarianism, is conducive to post-war reconcilia...

Over the last 30 years referendums have played an increasingly important role in determining government policy. Recent high profile referendums in ...

This comprehensive volume analyses the phenomena of populism and Islamism in Turkey under Justice and Development Party (JDP) rule since 2002, and ...

Drawing on classic and contemporary scholarship and empirical analysis of elections and public expenditures in 80 countries, the author argues for ...

This comprehensive volume provides crucial insights from contemporary academics and practitioners into how positive interventions might be made int...

This title was first published in 2003. This precise and well-structured book focuses on the mechanics (its evolution and the debates it generates)...

Studies of election campaigns have shown an increased employment of websites, weblog tools, email, and social media by political campaigners, as we...

This title was first published in 2003. This precise and well-structured book focuses on the mechanics (its evolution and the debates it generates)...

This book examines the representativeness of party membership and analyses the potential consequences of changing representativeness. Parties with ...

This Handbook is the first major work to comprehensively map state-of-the-art scholarship on electoral debates in comparative perspective. Leading ...

African legislatures remain understudied, yet democratisation, development and peacebuilding all depend on these key political institutions. This b...

This pathbreaking book uncovers the important, underappreciated role of armed opposition groups turned political parties in shaping long-term patte...

This book explores how to identify and understand moral emotionsshame, guilt, pride, and hubrisin political messages and news media. Recognizing th...

How do different electoral systems work to translate votes into seats? What effects do they have on the political system, on political actors, and...

How do different electoral systems work to translate votes into seats? What effects do they have on the political system, on political actors, and...

Since 1952, the social bases of the Democratic and Republican parties have undergone radical reshuffling. At the start of this period southern Blac...

This book examines the seismic impact of Brexit on the British political system, assessing its likely long-term effect in terms of a significantly ...

In the years following the Civil War, pioneers in the womens rights movement, womens medical education, and public-private charitable partnerships ...

Shows the maddening difficulties that voter ID requirements create for participants in US democracy and offers concrete solutions for every persons...

'We women are roused. Now that we are roused, we will never be quiet again'Bringing together the voices of women who fought for equal rights and re...

P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry is what America ha...

P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry is what America ha...