Elections & Referenda

′This clear and comprehensive textbook will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate courses on elections and voting behaviour. Complex theoret...

Competition seems to be an inevitable part of present-day elections in the United States. However, recent publications have debated whether we shou...

′This clear and comprehensive textbook will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate courses on elections and voting behaviour. Complex theoret...

This book describes political and sociological developments in Israel before and after the February 2009 elections, alongside an analysis of electo...

This book analyzes whether the "new debate on genetics" owes a debt to eugenic practices by welfare democracies of 1930s and 1940s. More specifical...

Political parties in post-communist countries have very high levels of electoral volatility. In these environments, political factions fail to esta...

This book provides you with a theoretical and comparative understanding of the major topics related to elections and voting behaviour. It explores ...

Party polarization in the House of Representatives has increased recently. Explaining this development has been difficult given current interpretat...

Although "democracy promotion" has become a popular term for policy makers and scholars, democratization is rarely a smooth or linear transition. W...

On July 7, 2009, Al Franken was sworn in as Minnesota's junior U.S. senator-eight months after Election Night. In the chill of November 2008, Repub...

The first book-length treatment of the public financing of elections in the United States

The first book-length treatment of the public financing of elections in the United States

Caroline Beer’s new book explores the consequences of democratic politics in Mexico. Focusing on struggles at the subnational level, she assesses h...

This book examines why people vote in the newly consolidated democracies of Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Central and Eastern European coun...

Many Canadian parties are shifting their process for selectingleaders from delegate conventions to methods that -- at least in theory-- allow all m...

Political scientists have traditionally examined the democraticprocess at the macro level. With its unique micro-level focus,Parties, Candidates, a...

In Mr Smith Goes to Ottawa, the author compares the 34th(1988-93) and the 35th (1993-97) Parliaments. The former, the secondconsecutive Conservativ...

In 2008 Ma Ying-jeou was elected President of Taiwan, and the Kuomintang (KMT) returned to power after eight years of rule by the Democratic Progre...

Many Canadian parties are shifting their process for selectingleaders from delegate conventions to methods that -- at least in theory-- allow all m...

Political scientists have traditionally examined the democraticprocess at the macro level. With its unique micro-level focus,Parties, Candidates, a...

Caroline Beer’s new book explores the consequences of democratic politics in Mexico. Focusing on struggles at the subnational level, she assesses h...

Foreign policy makers and international relations scholars have become increasingly interested in the relationship between democracy and war. In th...

Electing a Diverse Canada presents the most extensive analysis to date of the electoral representation of immigrants, minorities, and women in Cana...

Individual donors play a critical role in financing congressional elections, accounting for more than half of all money raised in House campaigns. ...

Examines the impact of sex role stereotyping on the electability of women candidates, and as a central factor in the conduct and consequences of st...

Since the passage of the Civil Rights Bill of 1964, only three Democrats have captured the White House-all of them natives of southern states. The ...

In California Politics Is Local, Brett L. Savage and Jacob Sutherland argue that California politics should be viewed through a local lens due to t...

"Socialists Don't Sleep is one of those timely books that just points out the roots of what's gone wrong in America, how we can get our country bac...

This volume provides a state-of-the-art analysis on the fourth wave of far-right politics in Germany by leading scholars in the field. Innovatively...

This book analyses the determinants behind the openings in party leader selection rules (leaders' selectorate) in 10 Western European countries and...

Individual donors play a critical role in financing congressional elections, accounting for more than half of all money raised in House campaigns. ...

Upturning the typical view of Turkey’s democratic trajectory as a product of authoritarian assault or unfortunate circumstances, this book argues t...

In recent years, an increasing amount of research has argued that the successful transformation of rebel organization into parties is critical to s...

This book explains how voters evaluate women candidates, who votes for them, and why. Women comprise an ever-increasing percentage of the candidate...

These volumes provide an essential comprehensive work of reference for the annual municipal elections that took place each November in the 83 Count...

The authors have based the book primarily on data derived from the 1988 Canadian Election Study, for which they were co-investigators. The survey ...

The authors have based the book primarily on data derived from the 1988 Canadian Election Study, for which they were co-investigators. The survey ...

Frederic C. Schaffer challenges the assumption often made by American scholars that democracy has been achieved in foreign countries when criteria ...

In the two decades since Feminism and Suffrage was first published, the increased presence of women in politics and the gender gap in voting patter...

This study looks at the influence of ideas and think tanks in Britain, contemplating how ideas have shaped politics and society. The purveyors of i...

Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Ind...

Where did the idea for nonpartisan constituency redistributions come from? What were the principal reasons that Canada turned to arm's-length commi...