This timely book presents a critique of binary majority rule and provides insights into why, in many instances, the outcome of a two-option ballot does not accurately reflect the will of the people.
This book offers a theoretically driven, empirically grounded survey of the role visual communication plays in political culture, enabling a better understanding of the significance and impact visuals can have as tools of political communication.
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the determinants of EU support between 2006 and 2015, and of electoral behavior during the European Parliament elections.
This textbook contains a rigorous exposition of the mathematical foundations of two of the most important topics in politics and economics: voting and apportionment, at the level of upper undergraduate and beginning graduate students.
This book charts the economic, social and political rise of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) as well as its political resilience over the last sixteen years.
Fifty years ago, academics and policymakers throughout the world agreed that it was impossible for certain sets of historically antagonistic groups to coexist peacefully on a long-term basis.
This book provides a lively and comprehensive account of the unprecedented Italian general election of 2018 and of its profound significance for Italy and beyond.
This book presents a new democratic theory of election reform, using the tradition of political realism to interrogate and synthesize findings from global elections research and voting theory.
Luke Perry's inaugural Pivot in the Palgrave Studies in US Elections series examines the impact of Donald Trump on the 2018 midterm campaigns in Central New York, particularly competitive campaigns for NY-19, NY-22, and NY-24.
This book addresses current developments concerning the interpretation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the part of international courts and tribunals.
This book demonstrates that the generally assumed dichotomy between referendums and representative democracy does not do justice to the great diversity of referendum types and of how referendums are used in European democracies.
This book draws lessons and conclusions, based on the methodology outlined in the author's previous book, Water as a Catalyst for Peace (Routledge, 2013), and further charts the course to a more practical framework for achieving regional stability and justice.
This book investigates whether politics in Britain in the twenty-first century is driven more by issues of culture and identity than by "e;left versus right"e; issues of wealth distribution.
This critical and systematic analysis of election reforms post-HAVA (Help America Vote Act of 2002) offers a detailed look ahead at the significant challenges that remain in the context of a new presidential administration.
Political Communication in Britain is a now established series of nine books, the first of which appeared in the aftermath of the 1979 General Election.
En un viraje político que tomó por sorpresa a gran parte de la sociedad argentina, Javier Milei ascendió al poder desafiando las predicciones y las comprensiones convencionales de la política del país.
Extrait : "Après la Révolution de juillet, la Chambre des députés s'empressa de voter l'abrogation de la loi du 19 janvier 1816, qui attachait à l'anniversaire du 21 janvier 1793 une commémoration solennelle, prescrivait l'érection d'un monument expiatoire, instituait des services funèbres dans toutes les églises, suspendait l'action de toutes les autorités administratives, et jusqu'à celle des tribunaux.
Many assumed characteristics of generational groupings are actually "e;myths,"e; meaning that generational stereotypes are not accurate across all members of a generation.