Elections and referenda / suffrage

This book provides a comparative analysis of the processes and impacts of austerity measures introduced in the field of Local Public Services (LPS) across Mediterranean Europe.

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

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

This third volume in the Japan Decides series remains the premier venue for scholarly research on Japanese elections.

This book provides an insight into commercial relations between large economies and Small States, the benefits of regional integration, the role of Small States as financial centres as well as B2B and State to State dispute resolution involving Small States.

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

This book deals with 18 voting procedures used or proposed for use in elections resulting in the choice of a single winner.

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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 book explores the opportunities and obstacles to a presidential system in Turkey as proposed by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party).

This book examines the reasons why young people vote.

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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 presents Social Dialogue as a social innovation strategy for managing diversity at any step of the human resource circle.

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

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

This book analyses Nicaragua's role in the development of international law, through its participation in cases that have come before the International Court of Justice.

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.

In light of the increased utilization of information technologies, such as social media and the 'Internet of Things,' this book investigates how this digital transformation process creates new challenges and opportunities for political participation, political election campaigns and political regulation of the Internet.

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

Volume 8 of the EYIEL focuses on the external economic relations of the European Union as one of the most dynamic political fields in the process of European integration.

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 work focuses on the EU's participation in the Dispute Settlement Proceedings (DSP) of the WTO for matters of non-conferred competences.

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

This book provides an in-depth analysis of "e;Mega-Regionals"e;, the new generation of trans-regional free-trade agreements (FTAs) currently under negotiation, and their effect on the future of international economic law.

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 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 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 provides an in-depth study of Private International Law reasoning in the field of international sale of goods contracts.

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 volume focuses on the 2016 Presidential campaign from a communication perspective, with each chapter considering a specific area of political campaign communication and practice.

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