Elections and referenda / suffrage

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.

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How do voters in Britain decide which party to vote for in elections?

This volume analyzes international agreements from a political economy perspective.

This book addresses the field of populisms from a contemporary perspective.

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to conflict solution focusing on a very specific type of conflict, retributive conflicts .

This book adopts a regional approach to understanding 2020 presidential election outcomes, taking into account the tribalism that has come to define contemporary US politics and building a path to 270 Electoral College votes.

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 explores engagement between the trade and investment law regimes and the extent to which this is being driven by Preferential Trade and Investment Agreements (PTIAs).

Political Communication in Britain offers unique insights from various members of the party, media, and polling organizations that contested, reported, and analysed the 2019 British General Election, as well as leading academic experts who have researched the campaign.

This book gives a historical and contemporary overview of the redistricting process, using North Carolina for the different political, electoral, and legal issues and debates over the practice of drawing legislative district boundaries.

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

This book examines the evolution of the Catholic vote in the United States and the role of Catholic voters in the 2020 national elections more specifically.

The European Parliament (EP) - a powerful actor in today's European Union - was not intended to be more than a consultative assembly at first.

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 is the second volume in the Palgrave Studies in Political Marketing and Management series to focus on political marketing and management in New Zealand's general elections.

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

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

This book is about how opinion polls are reported in the media.

This book assesses Afghanistan's transit trade with Pakistan in the context of WTO transit regime for landlocked countries and its impacts on Members' regional transit agreements.

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 investigates how political parties from 12 European countries used Facebook to inform, interact with and mobilise voters at the 2019 European Parliament 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 examines the populist communication of mainstream parties in Germany, Austria, Italy, and Spain.

This book addresses the process and principles of contract management in construction from an international perspective.

This book explores the digital transformations of democracy and democratic societies.

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 light of the growing support for populist political actors, this book examines political party behavior and political positions towards the integration process in the European Union.

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

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.

The book discusses compensation mechanisms and other non-judicial means that offer alternatives to court proceedings, designed and provided for within national legal regimes.

This book focuses on four topical and interconnected, innovative pathways to civil justice within the context of securing and improving access to justice: the use of Artificial Intelligence and its interactions with judicial systems; ADR and ODR tracks in privatising justice systems; the effects of increased self-representation on access to justice; and court specialization and the establishment of commercial courts to counter the trend of vanishing court trials.

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 is the first-ever to explore commercial arbitration in the Ethiopian context.

This book brings together the expertise of two authors involved in initiating the development of Online Family Dispute Resolution (OFDR), while also examining the unique Australian system.

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.

Public disenchantment with and distrust of American government is at an all-time high and who can blame them?

This book explores victims' views of plea negotiations and the level of input that they desire.

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

This book argues that the defeat of the main French Centre Right party in the 2017 presidential and legislative elections, and its subsequent disintegration, were the result of a failure to respond effectively to the challenges posed by a continuing realignment of the party system.

This book concentrates on the leaders of the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats in British general election campaigns between 2010 and 2019, by exploring where they visit during the campaign and why, the impact they have, and how leadership is represented in the Press.

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

Disinformation has recently become a salient issue, not just for researchers but for the media, politicians, and the general public as well.

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

This book examines the issue of foreign investor misconduct in modern international investment law, focusing on the approach that international investment law as it currently operates has developed towards foreign investor misconduct.

This book investigates complex regressive dynamics in contemporary Western democracies.

This book discusses how UNIDROIT principles are viewed and interpreted in different countries, presenting various perspectives and practical lessons learned.

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

This book discusses how technological innovations have affected the resolution of disputes arising from electronic commerce in the European Union, UK and China.