Elections & Referenda

The fourth edition of Gender and Elections offers a systematic, lively, multi-faceted account of the role of gender in the electoral process throug...

In the wake of the most unprecedented election result in recent memory, the question on everyone's lips is: what just happened to the UK's politica...

Cambridge was at the forefront of the struggle for women to get the right to vote in Britain a century ago. Millicent Fawcett, who later became the...

Chancellor Angela Merkel has dominated German and European politics for almost a decade. Her stellar reputation, sound political and economic ma...

From a leading expert on election law, a compelling answer to the dilemmas of campaign finance reform Campaign financing is one of todays most divi...

Shortlisted for the Practical Politics Book of the Year at The Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2015. Have you ever wondered...- what emotions rea...

The first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin represented Montana for two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. A leadi...

Each of the past few election cycles has featured at least one instance of primarying, a challenge to an incumbent on the grounds that he or she is...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021The riveting story of a nation at a crucial crossroadsFrom the start of his stint as RTE's Washington Cor...

This pioneering and judicious history of foreign intervention in elections should be read by everyone who wants to defend democracy no...

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...

Why do people identify with political parties? How stable are those identifications? Stable party systems, with a limited number of parties and mos...