Elections and referenda / suffrage

In the days after Donald Trump's unexpected victory on election night 2016, The New York Times, CNN, and other leading media outlets reached out to one of the few pundits who had correctly predicted the outcome, Allan J.

Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from six country studies, Gendered Electoral Financing: Money, Power and Representation in Comparative Perspective is the first cross-regional examination of the nexus between money, gender and political recruitment across the world.

Americans love to hate their government, and a long tradition of anti-government suspicion reaches back to debates among the founders of the nation.

This book demonstrates how the public international law character of investment treaty arbitration has impacted on the dispute settlement procedure.

Upturning the typical view of Turkey's democratic trajectory as a product of authoritarian assault or unfortunate circumstances, this book argues that the AKP, first elected in 2002, has consistently advanced a narrative of democracy as the work of an elite working for the 'National Will'.

The increased use of direct democracy measures across the United States has brought attention to the individual petitioner however their motivations and goals continue to be an enigma.

This book considers the issues involved in international commercial disputes where set-off has been used.

Today we hold the Constitution in such high regard that we can hardly imagine how hotly contested was its adoption.

We had to figure that by electing a decidedly non-career-politician, that things would be different.

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field, focusing on recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment (FDI), investment treaty practice, and investor-state arbitration.

This Element presents data-driven approach that evaluates the performance of the administration of a democratic election.

This book presents a selection of the latest arbitration cases, materials, and commentaries from China.

This book focuses on Chinese cases on the CISG decided by Chinese courts of all levels, focusing on 2011 to 2012.

This book re-constructs the evolution of the border conflict between Croatia and Slovenia.

This revised and expanded edition analyses the factors conducive to holding independence and secession referendums, to winning these votes and to their status in domestic and international law.

The Impact of Legislatures brings together key articles and path-breaking scholarship published in The Journal of Legislative Studies during its first 25 years of publication, enabling the reader to make sense of the impact of legislatures in the modern world.

The effectiveness and capacity of survival of democratic regimes has been recently and widely questioned in the public and political debate.

A look into the covert influence billionaires wield in American politics and the actions citizens can take to hold them more accountable.

This book focuses on Chinese cases on the CISG decided by Chinese courts of all levels, mainly from 2006 to 2010.

This book provides a comparative analysis and a systemic categorization of the Populist Radical Left Parties (PRLPs) in Western Europe.

This book explains how and why arbitration works.

The Promise of Democratic Equality in the United States explores the ways in which the American political system fails to fully respect political equality.

Electoral promises help to win votes and political candidates, or parties should strategically choose what they can deliver to win an election.

As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political significance.

Canada's fifth effort at "e;mega-constitutional politics"e; was a period of popular discussion and leadership negotiation, that ran from the defeat in 1990 of the Meech Lake Accord through the Charlottetown Accord and the referendum of 26 October 1992.

In this all-new collection of conversations, Noam Chomsky explores immediate and urgent international concerns including Iran's challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of China, and the growing power of the left in Latin America, as well as the Democratic victory in the US midterm elections and its ramifications for the future.

Public disenchantment with and distrust of American government is at an all-time high and who can blame them?

What am I supposed to do when he starts spewing his bullshit?

This book proposes a new theory of identity politics in elections, explaining why it is difficult for democracies to address rising inequality.

Voting difficulties hung over America's presidential election in 2000 like a dark cloud.

This book is about political ambition - who has it, how it is fostered and how it evolves.

'A rich and thoughtful book.

Trump, Wilders, Salvini, Le Pen - during the last decades, radical right-wing leaders and their parties have become important political forces in most western democracies.

Con un exhaustivo examen del Derecho comparado, se analizan en este trabajo las mas importantes cuestiones que se plantean en la resolucion de conflictos a traves de la mediacion: su admisibilidad constitucional y material, su no siempre sencilla articulacion con el sistema judicial, sus principales notas distintivas (voluntariedad, confidencialidad e igualdad), el papel de las partes y del abogado, la validez de las clausulas de mediacion, asi como la responsabilidad por su incumplimiento y el caracter ejecutivo de los acuerdos finales.

Looks at how Nigeria''s political parties compete for power in a context of transition, terrorism, and religious and ethnic tension.

This book argues that House incumbents have not improved their electoral fortunes in recent decades.

Drawing on international, state and private sector case studies and a global survey, this book examines local engagement in disaster relief.

This book examines the increasing territorialisation of party competition and the relaxation of unitarian rule through devolution, presenting a long-term analysis of electoral developments in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War.

The Developing World of Arbitration studies the recent emergence of Asia Pacific jurisdictions as regional or international arbitration centres, thanks to various reform efforts and initiatives.

Among the political institutions inherited from Canada's British past is the system by which people are elected to office.

The use of referendums around the world has grown remarkably in the past thirty years and, in particular, referendums are today deployed more than ever in the settlement of constitutional questions, even in countries with little or no tradition of direct democracy.

This book scrutinizes legislative novelties and case law in the area of EU competition and state aid rules, focusing on the interaction between public and private enforcement of those rules.

Political parties in post-communist countries have very high levels of electoral volatility.

An original and comprehensive study of the sociological and psychological forces driving individual choices in French Presidential elections.

International arbitration has become the favored method of resolving disputes between business partners in almost every aspect of international trade, commerce, and investment.

Rarely does the Supreme Court reverse itself as quickly and profoundly as it did in recent campaign finance cases, with the Citizens United decision of 2010 undoing the constraints of the McCain-Feingold Act upheld in McConnell v.

With the Obama campaign universally acknowledged as the most successfully marketed presidential campaign of all time, the future of political marketing is fiercely contested, provoking a wealth of high quality scholarship from across the globe.

This book is about how opinion polls are reported in the media.