Elections and referenda / suffrage

A practical playbook for leaders to guide their teams through their organization''s next big change

Incumbents enjoy many advantages when they seek reelection, but their distinct disadvantages (such as not fulfilling promises or staying within the status quo) are ripe weaknesses for opposing candidates to knock them down.

Actualmente, se aplican dos formulas de eleccion politica: una por mayoria; y otra, denominada de representacion proporcional, donde en proporcion directa al porcentaje de votos de cada partido, se le asigna una proporcion denominada plurinominales.

La obra que ahora se presenta analiza las experiencias vividas durante el proceso electoral 2017-2018, abordando tematicas sobre eventos sucedidos, un tanto predecibles y otro tanto impensables, como la participacion de los ciudadanos para acudir a votar, para expresar sus opiniones respecto del desarrollo de las campanas y su activismo dentro del proceso, quienes hicieron que estas elecciones se convirtieran en un parteaguas nacional; todo desde la vision de los que participaron como consejeros electorales y que estuvieron trabajando dia a dia en este proceso electoral hasta la entrega de las constancias de mayoria a los candidatos electos.

This book provides an analytical guide to the modern political campaign, chronologically covering key federal, state, and local campaign laws, election commission rules, and the court decisions interpreting them.

We say the camera doesn't lie, but we also know that pictures distort and deceive.

This book is an analysis of the perspectives of 100 politicians involved in the thick of an election campaign (figuratively the horses in the race) in Andhra Pradesh during the Lok .

This book includes up-to-date contributions in the broadly defined area of probabilistic analysis of voting rules and decision mechanisms.

The American National Election Studies (ANES) is the premier social science survey program devoted to voting and elections.

This timely book presents a critique of binary majority rule and provides insights into why, in many instances, the outcome of a two-option ballot does not accurately reflect the will of the people.

This title gives students and other users a clear understanding of the true state of voting and representative democracy in the United States by impartially examining claims surrounding voter fraud, voter suppression, gerrymandering, and other voting-related issues in the U.

This book analyzes both local and national House and Senate campaigns in the 2016 election to reveal how distinctive campaign dynamics have a collective national impact.

This book brings together leading and emerging scholars and practitioners to present an overview of how regional, international and transnational courts and tribunals are engaging with the environment.

When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victorywhether as an underdogs heroic triumph or a liberal crusaders overcoming special interests.

Victim offender dialogues have been developed as a way to hold offenders accountable to the person they have harmed and to give victims a voice about how to put things right.

This work provides a concise, authoritative, and illuminating overview of the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in Turkey's labour dispute resolution system, and helps compare the Turkish system especially with those in European countries.

This book examines how the five-factor model of personality (also known as the Big Five)-extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability/neuroticism, and openness to experience-influence individuals' ability to understand and engage in four areas of civic life.

This book examines how parties negotiate coalition deals at the subnational level using the examples of Germany and Spain.

This book explains some of the ways in which deteriorated socioeconomic conditions (inequality in particular) and institutional limitations (corruption, electoral exclusion, and a weak rule of law, among others) affect political stability in extremely unequal developing countries, like Mexico, where democracy is not yet fully consolidated.

Grassroots Advocacy and Health Care Reform places a detailed account of how the Health Care for America Now campaign in Pennsylvania carried out contemporary issue advocacy in the context of an understanding of American politics.

Anthony Bennett guides us through the events of the four elections of the 21st century, showing how this era of partisanship has reshaped not only presidential nominations and elections, but the American presidency and politics itself.

Democracy has changed considerably in recent years to the extent that our contemporary understanding differs greatly from long-held democratic values.

FIDIC 2017: A definitive guide to claims and disputes second edition serves as a practical legal companion for managing the procedures for claims and disputes within the 2017 FIDIC suite of contracts.

Was the victory of Francois Hollande, the Socialist challenger to Nicolas Sarkozy, inevitable in the 2012 French Presidential elections?

Although the art of rhetoric is central to the practice of politics it also plays an important role in civic and private life.

The book focuses, through multiple levels of international reality, on the pervasive and widespread effect of the Syrian civil war on the unravelling of established norms---both global or national--- which have determined international relations during the last seven decades.

This Element presents novel data on legislator reelection rates of lower house national legislators from nearly 100 democracies.

First published in 1980, Paris and the Provinces explores why reforms of central-local relations in France have been so ineffectual.

First published in 1980, Paris and the Provinces explores why reforms of central-local relations in France have been so ineffectual.

This book analyzes the role of social networks during electoral campaigns around the world, taking into account the non technological particularities (political, electoral, social, economic, cultural) of the media configurations of different countries.

What are the most cost-effective ways to increase voter turnout?

This Element examines the ballot design consequences for voter behavior and candidate performance through an electoral reform in Argentina.

The Gumshoe and the Shrink is a tale of political intriguea detective story and medical mystery set against the backdrop of the closest and most storied presidential election in American history.

BürgermeisterInnen haben ein einflussreiches und verantwortungsvolles Amt inne.

This book analyzes the role of social networks during electoral campaigns around the world, taking into account the non technological particularities (political, electoral, social, economic, cultural) of the media configurations of different countries.

Even as several Latin American countries have regressed to authoritarian rule in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, elections remain permanent and vital features of the region's political life.

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

This book focuses on an emerging problem in English contract law: what should be done when a party has been unjustly enriched as the result of a breach of contract but there is no measurable loss suffered by said party?

The Rise and Decline of Modern Democracy assesses the rise of, subsequent political challenges to, and decline of, contemporary liberal democratic processes, in particular since the 'third wave' of democratization from the 1990s.

This Handbook analyzes elections in the Middle East and North Africa and seeks to overcome normative assumptions about the linkage between democracy and elections.

A novel framework for understanding the role and relevance of coherence in international dispute settlement and judicial reasoning.

This Handbook analyzes elections in the Middle East and North Africa and seeks to overcome normative assumptions about the linkage between democracy and elections.

A Brookings Institution Press and the Hoover Institution publicationAnalysts and pundits increasingly perceive a widening gulf between "e;red states"e; and "e;blue states.

The issue of fair representation will take center stage as U.