Elections and referenda / suffrage

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.

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

This book presents in-depth analyses of the wave of political protest and unrest that spread throughout Latin America between 2010 and 2015 in order to answer a question that has been challenging social scientists all over the region: why some countries have faced a divorce between their social movements and political parties while others have not?

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

This monograph studies voting procedures based on the probability that paradoxical outcomes like the famous Condorcet Paradox might exist.

This edited volume assesses the quality of democracy in the Republic of Korea three decades after its formal democratization in 1987.

This book explores the question of why and under which conditions right-wing populist parties receive electoral support.

This book explains how history and traditions have shaped Timorese politics, as well as the role that Indonesia and ASEAN play for the country's future .

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

This book addresses the paradox of uneven electricity in one of the fastest growing and now petro rich economies, Ghana, by addressing the question of why one of the most hydro rich countries in sub-Saharan Africa produces irregular access for all but 'swing' voter regions of the country.

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

This edited collection is one of the first books to focus on the distinctive political marketing and branding strategies utilized by the candidates and their parties in one of the most gripping elections in U.

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

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

This book investigates the ideological conditions inducing political actors to highlight corruption issues through valence campaigns.

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

This book deals with the sudden demise of Islamists in Egypt and prospects for democratization.

This book unveils the political economy of land squatting in a third world city, Montevideo, in Uruguay.

This book examines the significance of the 2015 elections in consolidating Nigeria's democracy, in the context of the difficulty of routinizing democracy since the attainment of nationhood in 1960 and the return to civil rule in May 1999, in particular.

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

This book provides an overview of the sudden ascendancy of Islamism in post-Mubarak Egypt and a detailed history of the power grab by the Muslim Brotherhood.

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

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 social cleavage lines shape issue voting and party competition.

This edited volume looks at supreme courts in China and the West.

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

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.

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.

This book comprises findings from the author's wide-ranging research since 1948 on the unresolved Arab/Israel protracted conflict.

This book studies the impact of cleavages on electoral choices.

This Brief discusses the adoption of the mixed member proportional (MMP) electoral system in New Zealand and its subsequent effect on representation for women.

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 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 is the definitive analysis of the 2016 Irish general election and is the eighth book in the well-established How Ireland Voted series.

This book contributes to and expands on the major international Comparative Policy Agendas Project.

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.

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

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

This book is unique in illuminating and comparing the charismatic role of two political leaders, Jawaharlal Nehru and David Ben-Gurion, along with assessments of many other 20th century political leaders.

'This starkly lucid and timely book absorbs the nuances of the largest festival - the elections - of the world's largest democracy.

This edited volume looks at supreme courts in China and the West.

Román Sabaté wundert sich über seinen rasanten Aufstieg in der aufstrebenden neuen Partei Pragma.

Bürgermeisterinnen und Bürgermeister sind die zentralen Ansprechpartner/-innen der lokalen Politik.

This book analyzes how mainstream and new parties are building their digital platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) organizations into the digital world.

This book investigates complex regressive dynamics in contemporary Western democracies.