Elections and referenda / suffrage

Never before has the story been told of the dramatic turning point when Ronald Reagan found his voice as a presidential contender and overcame the Republican establishment.

If the same-sex marriage debate tells us one thing, its that rights do not exist in a vacuum.

This book investigates the political legacy of colonialism in contemporary African institutions.

Proven to reduce bad behaviour and exclusions, and encourage happier, safer school environments, restorative justice is an effective approach to conflict resolution.

Prisoner enfranchisement remains one of the few contested electoral issues in twenty-first-century democracies.

Mediation and Dispute Resolution addresses contemporary challenges and new developments in mediation.

The latest book in the long-running Britain at the Polls series provides an indispensable account of the fascinating 2017 British general election.

This book analyses the principle of equality from three perspectives: public international law, private international law and EU law.

This book explores the institutionalization process with regard to the Parliament in Bangladesh, and seeks to identify the main constrains that hinder the Parliament from serving as the uppermost representative body for all segments of society.

This major new account of the politics of modern Ireland offers a rigorous analysis of the forces which shaped both how the Irish state governed itself from the period since 1987 and how it lost its economic sovereignty in 2010.

How voting behavior in Latin America is influenced by social networks and everyday communication among peersIn Latin America's new democracies, political parties and mass partisanship are not deeply entrenched, leaving many votes up for grabs during election campaigns.

An in-depth look into the psychology of voters around the world, how voters shape elections, and how elections transform citizens and affect their livesCould understanding whether elections make people happy and bring them closure matter more than who they vote for?

How violent events and autocratic parties trigger democratic changeHow do democracies emerge?

In The Perfect Tie: The True Story of the 2000 Presidential Election, James W.

On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states.

Power in the Portrayal unveils a fresh and vital perspective on power relations in eleventh- and twelfth-century Muslim Spain as reflected in historical and literary texts of the period.

In this book, a distinguished group of presidential campaign staff, journalists, and political observers take us inside the 2012 race for the Republican nomination and general election, guiding us through each candidate's campaign from the time each candidate announced his or her intention to seek the presidency through the primaries, conventions, and up to election day.

Examining the development of the process of presidential selection from the founding of the republic to the present day, James Ceaser contends that many of the major purposes of the selection system as it was formerly understood have been ignored by current reformers and modern scholars.

This book is the second of two studies which systematically explore territoriality of the vote in Europe.

This book studies the role of emotions, such as anger, anxiety, and enthusiasm, across various domains of political behavior in Turkey.

The pressures of contemporary electioneering force political professionals into 'campaign mode'-a state of mind that merges a visceral drive to win elections with a deep-seated habit of strategic thinking.

Every four years following the presidential election, the Institute of Politics at Harvard University convenes a distinguished gathering of campaign managers, media commentators, and interested political observers to reflect on presidential campaign strategies from the earliest primaries through Election Day.

This book reviews for the first time some of the less frequently addressed actors in international investment law.

Based on in-depth interviews conducted with British politicians, this book analyses the different impacts of leaving political office.

This book explains how the Greens went from obscurity to England's third largest party in just one year, quadrupling their vote share and securing their place in Britain's refigured party system on the way.

This edited volume considers the extent to which the Obama presidency matched the promises of hope and change that were held out in the 2008 election.

Die Beiträge des Buches basieren auf einer experimentell angelegten, mehrwelligen Studie im Kontext des TV-Duells zwischen Angela Merkel und Peer Steinbrück sowie des Dreikampfes zwischen Rainer Brüderle, Gregor Gysi und Jürgen Trittin im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl 2013.

This book, the second of two volumes, examines the presidency in last half of twentieth century America and explores the successes and failures of presidents in their foreign policy initiatives.

This book studies the impact of cleavages on electoral choices.

This book studies the challenges to conventional politics posed by new ways of selecting candidates for legislative elections.

This book makes a timely contribution to our understanding of the dramatic political changes that have recently affected Scotland and thrown into doubt the country's future position within the United Kingdom.

The study of the informal dimension of EU politics is more important than ever in order to understand how the EU system works.

Im politischen System der Bundesrepublik zeichnet sich auf der lokalen Ebene seit geraumer Zeit ab, dass sich das Parteiensystem durch den Einzug neuer Parteien in die Kreistage und Räte erweitert hat, während neue Beteiligungsmöglichkeiten politische Mehrheitskonstellationen weniger vorhersehbar machen.

This book analyzes the verticalization of coalition cabinets from the national to the sub-national level.

Das Buch bietet eine Einführung in die quantitative Datenanalyse mit dem Statistikprogramm SPSS.

This book examines the unintended consequences of top-down reforms in Iran, analysing how the Iranian reformist governments (1997-2005) sought to utilise gradual reforms to control independent activism, and how citizens responded to such a disciplinary action.

This book explores partisan dealignment in France between 1978 and 2012, with a particular focus on the blue-collar electorate and its relationship with the political parties of the established left (the Socialist Party, or Parti socialiste, and the Communist Party, or Parti communiste francais).

This edited volume presents the first comprehensive analysis of recall processes which have spread globally since the end of the Cold War, and which are now re-configuring the political dynamics of electoral democracy.

This book examines the presidency in twentieth century America and explores why some presidents succeed as makers of U.

In light of the transformation of the Front National (FN) to a major player in French politics, this book examines how the unprecedented boost in positive opinions towards the FN as well as its increasing membership and electoral success have been possible.

Armin Pfahl-Traughber erörtert die Frage, ob die „Alternative für Deutschland“ (AfD) als rechtsextremistische Partei anzusehen ist.

This book brings together a team of specialists to explore why some left-wing politicians are able to communicate their message effectively, whereas others struggle to connect with the public.

This book shows how the introduction of  intermediation is relevant in studying political and public policy processes, as they are increasingly accompanied by grey spaces in public and non-public arenas that cannot be categorized as purely representative or purely participative.

This book provides an analysis of the European Parliament elections 2019 with a focus on East-Central European countries.

Gegenwärtig ist viel vom „Rechtsruck“ die Rede.