Elections & Referenda

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...

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 ...