Elections and referenda / suffrage

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.

Politics in Scotland is an authoritative introduction to the contemporary political landscape in Scotland and an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Scottish Politics.

Political Management lays out the core tools to manage government, campaigns and parties.

For nearly 200 years, Americans have pinned the democratic character of their system on elections.

Negative campaigning is a central component of politics in the United States.

This book provides a practical guide to how groups of people, everywhere, from the local village council to the United Nations Security Council, can best make collective decisions.

This book tackles the 2014 European Parliamentary election as an event, phenomenon and process from an interdisciplinary but coherent perspective.

Congressional primaries are increasingly being blamed for polarization and gridlock in Congress.

While Quebec is well known for its provincial-level party politics and thriving nationalism, voting behaviour and electoral campaigning at the municipal level have failed to gain much attention to date.

Del veterano corresponsal de la Casa Blanca de la CNN, Jim Acosta, un explosivo relato de primera mano sobre los peligros que enfrenta al informar sobre la actual Casa Blanca mientras se encontraba en la primera linea de una Guerra con el presidente Trump por contar la verdad.

The amount of money flowing through U.

This book presents the results of systematic comparative analyses of electoral behavior and support for democracy in 13 countries on four continents.

Interest plays a vital and increasing role in international arbitration proceedings, with almost every case having an element of interest involved.

This comprehensive volume is a three-part study of whether the Chinese political system has maintained a significant degree of regime legitimacy in the context of rising domestic discontent, in particular the popular protests against socio-economic inequality and environment degradation.

Concerned citizens across the globe fear that democratic institutions are failing them.

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

This book focuses on the varied support for the populist radical right in the Benelux countries: Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Hong Kong Politics: A Comparative Introduction is a comprehensive and pioneering guide of this emerging field.

This book considers the potential setup for a future Multilateral Investment Court (MIC).

Why American democracy favors the affluent and educatedPolitically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens seem woefully underrepresented in our political system.

The study of political discussion has been broken into sub-categories including deliberative democracy, discursive studies, dynamics of interpersonal communication, and discussion network analyses, with substantial numbers of books and articles covering each.

This book examines the history of the generational gap in American politics, with an emphasis on the remarkable contemporary gap.

The Yearbook of International Sports Arbitration is the first academic publication aiming to offer comprehensive coverage, on a yearly basis, of the most recent and salient developments regarding international sports arbitration, through a combination of general articles and case notes.

Where were you when America elected Barack Obama?

This volume provides an in-depth examination of representation and legislative performance in contemporary American politics.

Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives.

Globalization of legal traffic and the inherent necessity of having to litigate in foreign courts or to enforce judgments in other countries considerably complicate civil proceedings due to great differences in civil procedure.

Extensive previous research has investigated environmental conflict management issues in networked settings and the design of policy networks, but the emergence and evolution of self-organizing policy networks are still not fully understood.

In Voters' Verdicts, Chris Bonneau and Damon Cann address contemporary concerns with judicial elections by investigating factors that influence voters' decisions in the election of state supreme court judges.

How much does money really matter in American politics?

All you need to understand the dynamics of conflict -- and the joy of resolution The rapid rate of change in the workplace and among families often leads to conflict and confrontation which can undermine productivity and poison relationships.

The increase in the "e;incumbency effect"e; has long dominated as a research focus and as a framework for interpreting congressional elections.

State judicial elections are governed by a unique set of rules that enforce longstanding norms of judicial independence by limiting how judicial candidates campaign.

This book reviews the techniques, mechanisms and architectures of the way disputes are processed in England and Wales.

Every four years Americans embark on the ultimate carnival, the Super Bowl of democracy: a presidential election campaign filled with endless speeches, debates, handshakes, and passion.

Why has the underrepresentation of women and racial minorities in elected office proved so persistent?

The Chicago Tribune headline DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN remains infamously wrong about the outcome of the 1948 presidential election.

The Four Faces of the Republican Party clearly describes how Republican Presidential nominating contests unfold.

This book provides a comprehensive study of the standard of 'full protection and security' (FPS) in international investment law.

This lively and sophisticated study describes the opinions and attitudes of the electors in one electoral district (Vancouver-Burrard) during the federal and provincial elections held from 1963 to 1965.

This book explores how and why established parties undermine niche parties or use them against other mainstream opponents.

The 'sequel' to his best-selling Classes and Cultures, Ross McKibbin's latest book is a powerful reinterpretation of British politics in the first decades of universal suffrage.

remains a must read for practitioners and academics interested in more than the substantive law of trans-border commercial activity.

This book is the most comprehensive single volume reference work available for British political facts.

Campaigns to win the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations are longer, more complex, and more confusing to the observer than the general election itself.