Elections and referenda / suffrage

This is a book about European integration and mainstream parties of the left, the main underlying question driving it being: Given that the communist left was fatally wounded by the collapse of the Berlin Wall; given that, since then, the terms 'left' and 'right' have not infrequently been attacked (especially by populists) as being no longer useful for making sense of politics; given that social democracy, understood as 'national Keynesianism' no longer appears to be viable (as reflected in its long-term electoral decline), what does it mean to be on the left in the early 21st century and what can be done to revive its fortunes?

This book analyses the impact of socio-structural variables, such as social class, religion, urban/rural residence, age and gender, on influencing an individual's voting preferences.

This book provides a systematic overview of the prevalence, causes, and stability of left-wing and right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany between 1994 and 2017.

This book presents the first analytical study of the levels of professionalism of campaigns in the 2012 Egyptian presidential elections.

This book focuses on the emergence of new frames of political engagement underpinned by concepts in marketing, management, and organisation.

This book examines the populist communication of mainstream parties in Germany, Austria, Italy, and Spain.

This book examines the history and role of election posters as one of the most crucial forms of political communication, especially in electoral campaigns, in a number of countries around the globe.

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.

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

This book provides a detailed study into whether Ministers in the Council vote the same way as Members of the European Parliament if they are from the same national party.

This book provides an original argument that rejects the idea of national MPs having but one 'standard' mode of representation.

This book explores the relationship between the personality of political leaders, its interaction with top leadership positions and its impact on the respective parties' electoral performance and organization.

This book offers a unique exploration of the 2015 General Election from the perspectives of those most intimately involved as strategists, journalists and analysts.

This book investigates the tensions between EU law and international commercial arbitration, i.

This book aims to explain why some presidents are more successful than others in winning the support of legislators during periods of unified government.

This book examines issues of race and policing through the lens of representative bureaucracy theory.

This book analyzes the threshold candidates of immigrant background need to overcome to run for legislative office.

This edited volume investigates and evaluates the context, causes, and consequences of various essential issues in Taiwanese domestic politics and external relations before and after the regime change in 2016.

This book explores how the UK press constructs and represents women leaders drawn from three professional spheres: politics, business, and the mass media.

This book explores the forces that shape Latino political preferences, arguing that social identities are at the center of Latino partisanship.

The second volume of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL) focuses on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), which was signed 40 years ago.

This book examines the factors determining the character, depth, scope and outcomes of changes made by political parties in the aftermath of electoral losses.

This book studies party leaders from selection to post-presidency.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the political systems of all ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste from a comparative perspective.

This book is the 9th volume in the established How Ireland Voted series and provides the definitive story of Ireland's mould-breaking 2020 election.

This book examines the practice of international election observation in a Caribbean context.

This book considers the impact that the increasing number of LGBQ politicians in Canada has had on the political representation of LGBTQ people and communities.

In light of the public and scholarly debates on the challenges and problems of established democracies, such as a lack of participation, declining confidence in political elites, and the deteriorating capabilities of democratic institutions, this volume discusses the question whether democracy as such is in crisis.

This volume analyzes international agreements from a political economy perspective.

The British General Election of 2019 is the definitive account of one of the most consequential and controversial general elections in recent times, when Boris Johnson gambled everything calling an early election to 'Get Brexit Done', and emerged triumphant.

This book discusses Kenya's transition from authoritarianism to more democratic forms of politics and its impact on Kenya's multi-ethnic society.

This book explains the 2016 presidential election through a strategic focus.

This book analyzes changes to campaigning and voting in the United States in 2020.

Thrilling and informative guide to the life and death of JFKIdeal for fans of In Cold Blood and Oliver Stone's JFKRevised and expanded version of DiEugenio's original bookTwenty years ago, before the ages of Obama and Trump, James DiEugenio wrote the first edition of Destiny Betrayed.

Big data and microtargeting steal the headlines about campaigning.

This book focuses on the language of two unions (the United Kingdom and the European Union), tracing the emergence of divisive discourses from indyref to Brexit.

This book assembles six chapters by respected and emerging scholars in political science and communication to produce a first sustained look at Twitter's role in the 2016 US Presidential Election.

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.

This book brings together the established field of political communication and the emerging field of critical event studies to develop new questions and approaches.

This book examines the outcome, dynamics, and lessons of the 2020 Democratic Primary.

This book analyzes the transformation of the Mexican political system during the last four decades, focusing on its presidential elections.

This book focuses on American political discourse connected to war, dissent, and empathy.

This book studies how established political parties react to the far left and far right parties that have surged in many democracies worldwide.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the political systems of all ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste from a comparative perspective.

This book investigates the phenomenon of permanent campaigning in Greece over the last decade.

This book presents a creative synthesis of two ostensibly disparate fields of law - arbitration and human rights.

The book explores the organization, conduct and supervision of elections in emerging democracies.

This book explores the conflict between the Catalan project to become independent and the Spanish state's opposition to any attempt of secessionism.

Historically, segments of white Americans have let racist paranoia supersede judicious reasoning throughout our history.

Public opinion research has been under a great deal of criticism over the last few years as it failed to accurately predict a series of important outcomes around the world.