Elections and referenda / suffrage

A unique study of Black-Latino electoral coalition building at the local level.

Explores the primary modes by which rulers have exercised power and shaped political relations in Timor-Leste.

This volume focuses on the issue of change in democratic politics in terms of experimental or actual innovations introduced either within political parties or outside the party system, involving citizen participation and mobilization.

This book examines the 2020 campaign and election in the United States of America from the perspective of political marketing, always intrinsic to democratic elections.

During the 2015 federal election, the Liberal Party pledged that, if elected, they would end the "e;first past the post"e; electoral system, where whichever candidate receives the most votes wins a riding even if they have not received a majority of all votes cast.

The ground upon which campaigns and elections are contested has been shifting rapidly in the last decade.

The recent financial and economic crisis has forced governments and people from around the globe to ask some hard questions about how democracy has evolved.

No subject is more central to the study of politics than elections.

The Political Marketing Game identifies what works in political marketing, drawing on 100 interviews with practitioners.

Congressional debates are increasingly defined by gridlock and stalemate, with partisan showdowns that lead to government shutdowns.

Contrary to popular claims, religion played a critical role in Barack Obama's 2008 election as president of the United States.

This book explains why the level of party presidentialization varies from one country to another.

This book provides a timely and unique contribution to current debates on how effectively voluntary party quotas address the persistent underrepresentation of women in legislatures.

The Developing World of Arbitration studies the recent emergence of Asia Pacific jurisdictions as regional or international arbitration centres, thanks to various reform efforts and initiatives.

This book contains eight empirical applications of the median voter model.

2025 WCoNA Book of the Year Finalist The Best Narrative & Biography Books of 2024, Selected by Porchlight When a progressive college professor runs for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in a deeply conservative rural district, he loses.

Did George Bush's use of the Willie Horton story during the1988 presidential campaign communicate most effectively when no one noticed its racial meaning?

Winner of the Political Book of the Year Award 2015The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is the most significant new party in British politics for a generation.

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.

Political Campaigning in the U.

Political Management lays out the core tools to manage government, campaigns and parties.

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 comprehensively examines various issues regarding the scope of Most-Favoured Nation (MFN) Clauses in International Investment Agreements (IIAs), and addresses the reform, interpretation, and enforcement of IIAs with a specific focus on the MFN clause.

You want to be a mediator, but how do you get started?

This book examines the practice of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) as it stands today in the context of matrimonial disputes and for providing gender justice for women undergoing matrimonial litigation.

This book provides a comprehensive study of the standard of 'full protection and security' (FPS) in international investment law.

Dieses Buch behandelt die motivationale Bedeutung von Ideen in kollektiven Handlungszusammenhängen.

Voter perceptions of the personal traits of presidential candidates are widely regarded to be important influences on the vote.

Der Band bündelt Analysen führender Wahlforscherinnen und Wahlforscher sowie Politikwissenschaftlerinnen und Politikwissenschaftler aus Deutschland zur Bundestagswahl 2021.

Family Law Arbitration is a guide to arbitration in family matters both financial and in respect of children.

Nach der Bundestagswahl 2017 entflammte die Diskussion über das erneut schwache Abschneiden der SPD.

This research explores one of the baffling mysteries in contemporary non-Western democracies.

Campaigns are central to the practice of modern democracy and integral to political participation in the twenty-first century.

The ground upon which campaigns and elections are contested has been shifting rapidly in the last decade.

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 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.

Focussing on Sub-Saharan Africa, Dominika Koter analyses why ethnic politics emerge in some ethnically diverse societies, but not in others.

What determines voting behavior in Turkey?

The First Bilateral Investment Treaties is the first and only history of the U.

Newton Minow's long engagement with the world of television began nearly fifty years ago when President Kennedy appointed him chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

The Promise of Democratic Equality in the United States explores the ways in which the American political system fails to fully respect political equality.

No Votes for Women explores the complicated history of the suffrage movement in New York State by delving into the stories of women who opposed the expansion of voting rights to women.

An urgent primer on what can be done to combat emerging threats to the core of U.

This book presents the main results of an electoral panel study which is both unique and innovative not only in French political research but also among Western European electoral studies.

The unknown story of the election that set the tone for today's fractured politics "e;A fresh, authoritative analysis of a pivotal election year.

First published in 1988, Parties and Party Systems in Liberal Democracies considers the extent and ways in which Western European and North American parties and party systems changed in the 1970s and 1980s after decades of relative stability.

The seventh edition of this successful textbook on the techniques and institutions used to solve international disputes.