Elections and referenda / suffrage

From a leading expert on election law, a compelling answer to the dilemmas of campaign finance reform Campaign financing is one of today’s most divisive political issues.

In 2000, just a few hundred votes out of millions cast in the state of Florida separated Republican presidential candidate George W.

How did race affect the election that gave America its first African American president?

Thoroughly revised and updated, with an extensive analysis of the 2008 election, this book remains the best analysis of the Electoral College for both students and general readers.

Which get-out-the-vote efforts actually succeed in ethnoracial communities—and why?

Americans currently choose their president through the electoral college, an extraordinarily complex mechanism that may elect a candidate who does not receive the most votes.

In this, the first major treatment of party identification in twenty years, three political scientists assert that identification with political parties still powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots.

In this provocative book, two leading law professors challenge the existing campaign reform agenda and present a new initiative that avoids the mistakes of the past.

The Supreme Court’s intervention in the 2000 election will shape American law and democracy long after George W.

The study of electoral realignments is one of the most influential and intellectually stimulating enterprises undertaken by American political scientists.

The three volumes of Voting in America offer the most comprehensive, authoritative, and useful account of all aspects of voting in America ever assembled.

In 1907, physician Lawrence A.

In investigating the presidential campaigns and early administrations of Barack Obama, George W.

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.

Election 2008 made American history, but it was also the product of American history.

Newly updated to examine Hillary Clinton's formidable 2008 presidential campaign, Women for President analyzes the gender bias the media has demonstrated in covering women candidates since the first woman ran for America's highest office in 1872.

The essential guide to Chomsky and his brilliant ideas on the global state of affairsAn extraordinary collection of Chomsky's speeches and his interviews with David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman.

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.

'We women are roused.

** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** The never-before-told, inside story of the Steele Dossier and the Trump-Russia investigation'The best procedural yet written about the discovery of Trump's Russia ties' New York TimesThe founders of the Washington-based intelligence firm Fusion GPS Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch were the first to uncover Trump's disturbing ties to the Kremlin and the crimes that have since plagued his presidency.

'Crisp, clear and quietly devastating' Guardian'Excellent, authoritative, highly readable' Irish TimesA succinct, expert guide to how we got to BrexitAfter all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us.

Miami, Summer 1968.

Lundberg critically examines the claim that party list-elected members of Britain's devolved assemblies, in Wales and Scotland, are somehow 'second-class' representatives.

Big new changes in the British electoral system - devolved assemblies for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, proportional representation for the European parliament and the direct election of London's Mayor - have all been introduced since the last general election in 1997, and others may be on the way.

This is the first book-length analysis of the rise in power of the Bolivian party Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) and its leader, President Evo Morales.

The Bush-Clinton families' hold on the American presidency is a danger to the presidency itself and to American democracy.

Can elections create democrats?

This book seeks to identify the factors that influence the percentage of female parliamentarians, paying particular attention to the electoral system.

This book examines village democracy and the prospects of China's democratization.

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

The Palgrave Review of British Politics 2005 provides up-to-date coverage of developments in British government and politics written by a team of leading experts.

In this book, the sixth in the highly regarded How Ireland Voted series, leading Irish political scientists examine what happened; analyse the election results, the opinion poll evidence and the media coverage to establish why it happened; and assess the long-term significance.

Italy Since 1989 provides the first in-depth, fully documented account in English of the extraordinary last eleven years in Italian politics.

This book focuses on the key actors in a referendum (the political elites/ parties, the media and citizens) and is centred around themes such as campaign style, campaign effects, electoral mobilization and turnout, as well as vote choice.

A new account of voting between the First and Second Reform Bills, outlining a new interpretation of electoral behaviour, and emphasizing the links between individual electors and their social context.

The Palgrave Review of British Politics 2006 provides up-to-date coverage of developments in British government and politics written by a team of leading experts.

This book gives a full account of past experience, present structures and processes, and probable developments, of the voters- party-electoral systems nexus in twenty-one advanced Western democracies.

The 2004 election of the European Parliament marks something of a defining point in the history of European integration.

Why do French voters vote the way they do?

Electronic and internet voting has become increasingly widespread in recent years, but which countries are the leaders of the movement and who lags behind?

The authors present an authoritative account of the background to the elections, the preparations by the political parties, the unfolding campaign and the results, as well as of their short-term effects and their long-term implications.

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.