Elections and referenda / suffrage

A 'non-election' in terms of popular perception, the 2004 European elections in the United Kingdom nevertheless provided a fascinating snapshot of the new, far more fluid electoral trends that have been emerging since the end of the Thatcher era, with Green, Eurosceptical, regional and single issue parties all jostling for electoral space with the bigger three.

How do British elections work?

Major changes in citizenship and democracy have taken place in Scandinavia within the last two decades.

This book examines the present and future of televised election debates, from the Nixon-Kennedy presidential debate of 1960 to the age of digital interactive multimedia.

How Ireland Voted 2002 provides an in-depth analysis of the Irish general election.

This book deals with the public policy-making process in contemporary Japan testifying a new dictum: 'The various phases of the policy process cause politics'.

This volume is the 14th in a series of studies begun in 1945 which have chronicled every postwar election.

Specialists in Conservative Party politics examine the effectiveness of the Cameron led coalition.

The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats each allow their members to participate in the selection of the party leader.

When the global financial system crashed, governments in America and Britain performed the greatest bailout in history.

Analyzes the communication processes in direct democratic campaigns and their effect on the opinion formation of the voters.

An original and comprehensive study of the sociological and psychological forces driving individual choices in French Presidential elections.

An explanation of variations in the discourses and electoral success of 25 extreme right parties across 17 European political systems.

An exploration of whether politicians are perceived to keep their election promises.

In 2010 the Conservative Party returned to office after over a decade of largely ineffective opposition to New Labour.

A study of processes of political party formation and change in new democracies.

As one of South Asia's oldest democracies Sri Lanka is a critical case to examine the limits of a liberal peace, peacebuilding and external engagement in the settlement of civil wars.

The 2010 General Election represented a pathbreaking contest in Political Communication.

Beech and Lee provide a definitive guide to the coalition's first year in office.

An analysis of the 2009 European elections in each of the 27 member states of the newly enlarged European Union, and assessment of the European Parliament in 2004-2009.

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

This offers a unique insight into the 2005 British General Election from the perspectives of those responsible for organizing, reporting, and understanding the campaign.

The book extends research on the territorial structure of party systems (party nationalization) to 20 post-communist democracies.

Gender quotas are a growing worldwide phenomenon, yet their variable implementation remains under-researched.

Critics of referendums often lament that big money may buy success at the ballot box.

The history of United Nations peacekeeping is largely one of failure.

This book presents the results of a new comparative research project on the trajectories, motivations, perceptions and attitudes of young members (aged 18-25) of 15 different European political parties in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Norway and Hungary.

The Frontiers of Democracy offers a comprehensive examination of restrictions on the vote in democracies today.

This book is a history of the emergence and development of the concept of proportional representation and its relation to political theory within the context of nineteenth-century British party politics focusing on Thomas Hare (1806-1891).

Images of political leaders as everyday figures, involved in commonplace activities, now form an increasingly important aspect of electoral presentation.

A lively account of the general election of 2008 and of its profound significance for Italy and beyond.

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.

This book explores the evolution of international punishment from a natural law-based ground for the use of force and conquest to a series of jurisdictional and disciplinary practices in international law not previously seen as being conceptually related.

The historic election of Barack Obama, the first African-American president is analyzed from the perspective of racial relations.

This book examines the evolution of black leadership and politics since the Civil Rights Movement.

The election of Barack Obama fundamentally changed America's relationship with the outside world.

The 2008 US presidential election was a 'global event.

This book examines the influence of terrorist threat in the recent elections in the US, Great Britain, and Russia to analyze the influence of post-9/11 fears on voting behaviour in comparative perspective.

What does it take to win the White House?

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.

Campaigns to win the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations are longer, more complex, and more confusing to the observer than the general election itself.

A policy-focused approach to understanding the role of interest groups in US municipal governments.

A Thousand Steps to Parliament traces how the complicated, contradictory paths to political representation that women in Mongolia must walk mirror those the world over.

Many argue that "e;civic duty"e; explains why Americans engage in politics, but what does civic duty mean, and does it mean the same thing across communities?

The Reasoning Voter is an insider's look at campaigns, candidates, media, and voters that convincingly argues that voters make informed logical choices.

Most people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby for policies as a cohesive bloc.

At first glance, campaign finance reform looks like a good idea.

In recent decades, and particularly since the US Supreme Court's controversial Citizens United decision, lawmakers and other elites have told Americans that stricter campaign finance laws are needed to improve faith in the elections process, increase trust in the government, and counter cynicism toward politics.

The growing ideological gulf between Democrats and Republicans is one of the biggest issues in American politics today.

In 2016, when millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump, many believed his claims that personal wealth would free him from wealthy donors and allow him to "e;drain the swamp.