Elections and referenda / suffrage

This book seeks to explore a fundamental obscurity in electoral behavior literature: while socioeconomic status is typically robustly and positively associated with a higher propensity for voting worldwide, the relationship in Africa is either negative or non-existent.

The first book-long analysis of the 'mediatization of politics', this volume aims to understand the transformations of the relationship between media and politics in recent decades, and explores how growing media autonomy, journalistic framing, media populism and new media technologies affect democratic processes.

How the Virginia Public Access Project revolutionized political transparency and won public trust In 1997, journalist David Poole launched a one-employee nonprofit to shine light on a blind spot in Virginia's lax campaign finance system.

Elections, Parties and Representation in Post-Communist Europe 1990-2002 stresses the ways in which the development of political parties affected the quality of democracy, the nature of political representation, and political accountability in the early stages of post-communist politics.

Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives.

Are celebrity politics the spice of American public life or a pox on policy progress?

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

The decennial Census is the US Government's largest statistical undertaking, and it costs billions of dollars in planning, execution, and analysis.

Describes and explains the protection standards contained in international investment agreements as applied by arbitral tribunals.

A diverse body of research exists to explain why eligible voters don't go to the polls on election day.

Delving into Turkey's political playing field, this book examines how an ethnic party increased its vote shares.

How American political participation is increasingly being shaped by citizens who wield more resourcesThe Declaration of Independence proclaims equality as a foundational American value.

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.

Examining the development of the process of presidential selection from the founding of the republic to the present day, James Ceaser contends that many of the major purposes of the selection system as it was formerly understood have been ignored by current reformers and modern scholars.

This book discusses the life and professional struggle of Kemal Kilicdaroglu and the transformation of the CHP under his leadership.

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.

Campaign 2012: Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy is an indispensable guide to the questions facing White House hopefuls in 2012, as well as the challenges awaiting the winner.

This book interrogates the nature of elections and election violence in the African countries.

The 2016 and 2018 elections are over, but looking ahead to the 2019-2020 election cycle, the debate over the fairness and accuracy of our electoral process has never been more contentious.

This book examines the legal principle of judicial independence in comparative perspective with the goal of advancing a better understanding of the idea of an independent judiciary more generally.

The Mountain West Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah has become the new swing region in American politics.

Cuando las desigualdades crecen y la concentración de riqueza deviene más ostensible, el concepto de clase emerge como una herramienta clave para comprender las sociedades actuales.

What does it take to get elected president of the United States-"e;leader of the free world"e;?

This Element argues that media and democracy requires a framework that analyzes political life and communication.

This book adopts an innovative conceptualization and analytical framework to the study of anti-system parties, and represents the first monograph ever published on the topic.

Elections in America provides a thorough and objective explanation of American elections at the local, state, and national levels.

Nearly 800 proposals have been made to amend or abolish the Electoral College, and its divisiveness raises many questions.

Highlighting the power of campaign strategy, this study challenges the notion that economic performance necessarily drives electoral outcomes.

The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a new vanguard in African American political leaders.

Is the Electoral College anti-democratic?

This is the first book to systematically evaluate e-voting from the wider European perspective.

Turkey is a country with a history of multiparty electoral competition going back to 1950, longer than many other nations in the world.

An original, comprehensive study of the legal and regulatory issues surrounding commercial mediation across numerous jurisdictions.

This book takes stock of political reform in Ethiopia and the transformation of Ethiopian society since the adoption of multi-party politics and ethnic federalism in 1991.

The book aims to complement the existing research on democratic innovations mainly by making unique comparative analyses of the democratic innovations at the local level in selected European post-communist countries, i.

Elections lie at the heart of democracy, and this book seeks to understand how electoral systems are chosen.

Small and developing states make up the majority of participants in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO), and Malaysia is one of these.

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 assesses stability guarantees through the lens of the legitimate expectations principle to offer a new perspective on the stability concept in international energy investments.

Navigate M&A accounting arbitrations with insider perspective M&A Disputes takes you inside the dispute resolution process to help you put together the many "e;moving parts"e; necessary to obtain a successful outcome.

Eminent lawyers from academia, international judiciary and legal practice join up to honour Professor Mads Andenas KC (Hon).

Why working-class Americans almost never become politicians, what that means for democracy, and what reformers can do about itWhy are Americans governed by the rich?

This book examines the politics involved in the mobilization of the Latinx vote in America.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of how states have stepped up their anti-bribery enforcement efforts in the recent past.

The book identifies the impact of misinformation in the context of referenda.

The contributions in this book cover a wide range of topics within modern disputeresolution, which can be summarised as follows: harmonisation, enforcement andalternative dispute resolution.

The parliamentary elections of 2015-16 in Greece, Spain and Portugal had extraordinary consequences, bringing repeat elections, unprecedented processes of government formation and uncharted government outcomes.