Elections & Referenda

This book looks at the link between voters and political party systems in Asian democracies, focusing on India, Indonesia, Korea and the Philippine...

In today’s world, citizenship is increasingly defined in normative terms. Political belonging comes to be equated with specific norms, values and a...

Comparative European Party Systems, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive analysis across 48 party systems of party competition, electoral syste...

This book, first published in 1987, analysed the state and changing nature of political opposition in Western Europe at the time. For each country ...

This book discusses the Party for Freedom (PVV), a political party in the Netherlands, founded and led by Geert Wilders. Attaining between 10 and 1...

As the 2016 election campaign attests, the Grand Old Party—once moderate and even magnanimous—has fallen into a prison of its own making when it co...

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...

As the 2016 election campaign attests, the Grand Old Party—once moderate and even magnanimous—has fallen into a prison of its own making when it co...

When it comes to elections, campaigns matter. And despite the ever-increasing role of volunteers and amateurs, modern American political campaigns ...

The study of political discussion has been broken into sub-categories including deliberative democracy, discursive studies, dynamics of interperson...

Since 2008 many European states have experienced significant challenges in adapting to austerity, and political actors within these states have mad...

Political Parties and Partisanship provides an up-to-date examination of the conceptualizations, causes, and consequences of partisanship in both n...

While it has been some time since computer technologies were first introduced to social surveys, their methodological advantages, as well as potent...

When it comes to elections, campaigns matter. And despite the ever-increasing role of volunteers and amateurs, modern American political campaigns ...

The 2014 midterm election was one of the most significant in recent memory, with a decisive turning of the tables in favor of Republicans. With a n...

Why India Votes? offers a fascinating account of the Indian electorate through a series of comprehensive ethnographic explorations conducted across...

Membership of political parties is diverse. Not everyone participates and those who do, do not participate in the same way.This book engages with t...

Congressional primaries are increasingly being blamed for polarization and gridlock in Congress. Most American states adopted congressional primari...

Electoral gender quotas have emerged as one of the most critical political reforms of the last two decades, having now been introduced in more than...

The primary motivation for this book is to focus on something crucial that is missing in Turkish political science: well-founded theories on the Tu...

Reflecting cutting edge scholarship but written for undergraduates, New Directions in Interest Group Politics will help students think critically a...

This volume offers an in-depth investigation of the role of new media in the political, social and cultural life in the region of Europe-Asia. By f...

Reflecting cutting edge scholarship but written for undergraduates, New Directions in Interest Group Politics will help students think critically a...

The 2012 Republican nomination process went on longer than most pundits predicted early on. While Mitt Romney began the season as the prohibitive f...