Elections and referenda / suffrage

In April 1994, black and white South Africans voted for the first time for a nonracial government.

This book examines the key events, personalities and wider socio-political context that led to Mugabe''s victory in the 2013 Zimbabwean elections.

Money is essential to the functioning of electoral politics, yet regulating its appropriate use raises complex and controversial challenges in countries around the world.

Exploring the negative effects of populism, this study presents an original explanation of Greece's current political and economic failures.

Trade liberalization has shaped international economic relations since the conclusion of the GATT 1947.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of the environmental issues raised in the South China Sea Arbitration Awards, which have not attracted as much attention in the Philippines as the "e;nine-dash line"e;.

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

For years Mark Monmonier, "e;a prose stylist of no mean ability or charm"e; according to the Washington Post, has delighted readers with his insightful understanding of cartography as an art and technology that is both deceptive and revealing.

How do ordinary people access justice?

Who could forget the Supreme Courts controversial 5-4 decision in Bush v.

This comprehensive volume is a three-part study of whether the Chinese political system has maintained a significant degree of regime legitimacy in the context of rising domestic discontent, in particular the popular protests against socio-economic inequality and environment degradation.

This innovative book investigates the process through which ethnic minorities penetrate into higher echelons of political power: specifically, how they succeed in getting elected to the U.

Why populations brutalized in war elect their tormentorsOne of the great puzzles of electoral politics is how parties that commit mass atrocities in war often win the support of victimized populations to establish the postwar political order.

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.

This book examines the development of democratic thought in the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, with a focus on the movement's ideas about participatory democracy.

The 2013 elections took place less than two years after the overwhelming wave of social protests of summer 2011.

Explaining Religious Party Strength explores why religious political parties are electorally successful in some countries but not in others.

Social pacts - policy agreements between governments, labor unions and sometimes employer organizations - began to emerge in many countries in the 1980s.

Taking Our Country Back presents the previously untold history of the uptake of new media in Democratic electoral campaigning over the last decade.

This book examines various issues facing global elections including the electoral college and how it works in contemporary presidential elections, foreign money and US elections, politics, human rights and US policy of Iran, contested elections in Honduras, politics, economy and elections in Peru, issues surrounding France's 2017 presidential election, and main political parties and key election issues in Germany.

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.

Caroline Henckels examines how investment tribunals should balance competing state and investor interests in determining state liability in regulatory disputes.

This book is the first in-depth study of the events that culminated in the establishment of the Third Reich.

Alexander Schuessler has done what many deemed impossible: he has wedded rational choice theory and the concerns of social theory and anthropology to explain why people vote.

In 1936, New Yorkers approved a radical change in local democracy.

This major new account of the politics of modern Ireland offers a rigorous analysis of the forces which shaped both how the Irish state governed itself from the period since 1987 and how it lost its economic sovereignty in 2010.

Provides academics and practitioners with a detailed analysis of the interface between foreign investment and environmental law.

Asian financial systems, which serve the most economically dynamic region of the world, survived the global economic crisis of the last several years.

This book provides a comparative analysis of the processes and impacts of austerity measures introduced in the field of Local Public Services (LPS) across Mediterranean Europe.

Labour's 1997 victory was widely credited to the party's reinvention of itself as New Labour.

In 2016, Russia meddled in the Presidential election through a series of cyber attacks and information warfare of state and local election jurisdictions.

Dispute System Design walks readers through the art of successfully designing a system for preventing, managing, and resolving conflicts and legally-framed disputes.

The public believes that politicians in the US favor special interests over their constituents and that our political institutions have become corrupt-and they are right.

Die von Johann Julius Goldmann verfasste Dissertation "Mediation in Übergangsstaaten - Entwicklung des Mediationsrechts in Serbien und Kroatien" beleuchtet die Besonderheiten für den Rechtsimport von Mediationsrecht in Gesellschaften im Umbruch.

In Partisan Odysseys, Nelson Wiseman sets out to survey the history of Canada's political parties.

This work provides an authoritative overview of the composition of public opinion in America, the methodologies by which public opinion is measured, and the importance of polling to U.

Das Buch bietet eine Einführung in die quantitative Datenanalyse mit dem Statistikprogramm SPSS.

What does it take to win the White House?

This book discusses how UNIDROIT principles are viewed and interpreted in different countries, presenting various perspectives and practical lessons learned.

Hugo Chavez won re-election in the 2012 Venezuelan presidential election, despite a closer margin between candidates than in previous elections.

This book explores the digital transformations of democracy and democratic societies.

The second edition of this classic text covers contemporary democracy movements including the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Occupy, and new nations as well as old issues from the Balkans to Africa, from Latin America to Ukraine.

As Europe's Muslim communities continue to grow, so does their impact on electoral politics and the potential for inclusion dilemmas.

The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Russia Hoax examines the latest findings about "e;collusion"e; between the Trump Administration and the Russians.

How do voters make decisions in low-information elections?