Elections and referenda / suffrage

In recent years, competitive authoritarianism has become an increasingly common form of non-democratic politics.

In recent years, competitive authoritarianism has become an increasingly common form of non-democratic politics.

This book explores the relationship between women, the state and democratic politics in Ireland today.

2017 marked the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome and the starting point for today's European Union.

2017 marked the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome and the starting point for today's European Union.

While the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has dominated Turkish politics for a decade and a half, recent years have seen a qualitative change, culminating in the 2017 referendum on the move to a presidential system.

While the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has dominated Turkish politics for a decade and a half, recent years have seen a qualitative change, culminating in the 2017 referendum on the move to a presidential system.

This book provides a comparative analysis and a systemic categorization of the Populist Radical Left Parties (PRLPs) in Western Europe.

This book provides a comparative analysis and a systemic categorization of the Populist Radical Left Parties (PRLPs) in Western Europe.

As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political significance.

As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political significance.

This book explains the development of the Conservative Party's immigration policy during the seven decades since 1945, up to today.

This book explains the development of the Conservative Party's immigration policy during the seven decades since 1945, up to today.

The second edition of this popular textbook provides a systematic and comprehensive introduction to UK party politics, combining chapters on each of the main parties (Conservative, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party) with an assessment of post-devolution Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Investigating the 2016 EU Referendum in the UK, The Language of Brexit explores the ways in which 'Brexit' campaigners utilised language more persuasively than their 'Remain' counterparts.

Investigating the 2016 EU Referendum in the UK, The Language of Brexit explores the ways in which 'Brexit' campaigners utilised language more persuasively than their 'Remain' counterparts.

This edited volume is based on a highly original survey carried out between November 2011 and June 2012 among a panel of 6,000 voters.

This book explores how contemporary governing leaders can overcome the typical trend of losing a public support in power by following more effective communication strategies.

The Societies of Europe is a series of historical data handbooks on the development of Europe from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.

The most authoritative study of a landmark British General Election - the fifteenth book in the renowned Nuffield series of election studies.

Electioneering in Britain is now a highly sophisticated and professionalised activity.

This is a lively and authoritative account by a leading political journalist and former MP of how the British electoral system works.

This study of the 1995 French presidential election explains why Jacques Chirac was elected the fifth President of the Fifth French Republic; it also places Chirac's election in the context of some of the more longstanding issues and debates in contemporary French politics, examining the Fifth Republic's institutional structures, the behaviour of its political parties, the attitudes of its citizens and the nature of its governance.

This excellent new book provides a comprehensive account of the British system of parliamentary elections.

The holding of referendums has returned to the British political agenda.

This book looks at various aspects of electoral history in Europe and Latin America, from the late 17th century to 1930, including electoral culture and traditions, electoral participation, electoral fraud, the role of elections in the process of nation-building, and the role of important institutions, such as the Church, in shaping political values and therefore electoral behaviour.

The referendum has become established as part of the decision-making process in many European countries.

Despite the central importance of elections to representative democracy, there is no systematic study available of how exactly the parties wage their election campaigns.

An account of the ways in which the British electoral system works, this book answers central questions such as when are elections held and what happens on polling day?

The 1987 election, which returned Mrs Thatcher for a record-breaking third term, was notable for a new level of campaigning professionalism.

The last decade has seen an increase in political and ideological conflict in local government.

In the 1980s there was a marked increase in the number of hung local authorities or authorities in which there was no clear majority.

A brief overview of the 1989 European Parliament elections in each of the member states.

The International Almanac is the only up to date source for the history of election results in the Western world from their origins to the present.

First Published in 1997.

This volume conceptualizes the dynamics underlying electoral politics in ethnically divided societies, providing empirical evidence and analysis of recent elections in such societies on a comparative and single-case basis, including case studies of Macedonia, Slovakia, Belgium, Malaysia, Singapore, Rwanda, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.

This volume conceptualizes the dynamics underlying electoral politics in ethnically divided societies, providing empirical evidence and analysis of recent elections in such societies on a comparative and single-case basis, including case studies of Macedonia, Slovakia, Belgium, Malaysia, Singapore, Rwanda, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.

Illustrated most dramatically by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent 'war on terror', violence represents a challenge to democratic politics and to the establishment of liberal-democratic regimes.