Category: Elections

By Bernard Manin

Latest dossier has a number of clean pages. this offers complete textual content.

By Asher and Michael Shamir Arian

Albany 1995 SUNY. 8vo., 326pp., index, published forums. VG, small scuff on entrance, no DJ.

By David L. Leal (auth.)

By Brian Costar

Lately brought laws and different notion from executive ministers threaten Australians' correct to vote. Brian Costar and Colin A. Hughes argue that instead of watering down democratic rights we have to increase the foremost positive aspects of our electoral approach.

By Orit Kedar

This e-book proposes an institutionally embedded framework for examining voter selection. electorate, Orit Kedar argues, are concerned about coverage, and consequently their vote displays the trail set by way of political associations major from votes to coverage. lower than this framework, the extra institutional mechanisms facilitating post-electoral compromise are equipped into the political method (e.g., multi-party government), the extra citizens atone for the dilution in their vote. this easy yet ignored precept permits Kedar to provide an explanation for a extensive array of doubtless unrelated electoral regularities and supply a unified framework of study, which she phrases compensatory vote. Kedar develops the compensatory common sense in 3 electoral arenas: parliamentary, presidential, and federal. Leveraging on institutional version within the measure of energy sharing, she analyzes voter selection, accomplishing an empirical research that brings jointly institutional and behavioral facts in a extensive move portion of elections in democracies.

By Shamit Saggar

This article examines key issues bearing on the research of race and electoral politics. Addressing a topic that's of significant topical curiosity, it bargains accomplished assurance of key themes. supplying either an ancient and theoretical research of race and ethnicity in politics, the members study the participation and impression of ethnic minorities in electoral politics at either ends of the political spectrum. "Race and British Electoral Politics" could be of worth for college students learning British politics, fairly these taking path suggestions on electoral politics, race, ethnicity and comparative politics.

By David Butler

Since 1945 the Nuffield sequence of election histories became an necessary a part of the political scene. the newest paintings follows culture in supplying an authoritative account of the 1992 election. The ancient historical past, the social gathering arrangements, the nationwide and native campaigns, the polls, the media insurance and the consequences are completely stated and analysed. This ebook deals a finished list and overview of a landmark in British history.

By Richard L. Hasen

In 2000, quite a few hundred votes out of hundreds of thousands solid within the kingdom of Florida separated Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush from his Democratic opponent, Al Gore. the result of the election rested on Florida's 25 electoral votes, and felony wrangling persisted for 36 days. Then, without warning, some of the most debatable excellent courtroom judgements in U.S. historical past, Bush v. Gore, lower brief the conflict. because the Florida debacle now we have witnessed a partisan conflict over election principles. Election litigation has skyrocketed, and election time brings out inevitable accusations through political partisans of voter fraud and voter suppression. those allegations have shaken public self belief, as campaigns install “armies of legal professionals” and the partisan press revs up whilst elections are anticipated to be shut and the stakes are high.

Richard L. Hasen, a revered authority on election legislations, chronicles and analyzes the battles over election principles from 2000 to the current. From a nonpartisan point of view he explores the emerging variety of election-related proceedings and fees of voter fraud in addition to the decline of public self belief in reasonable effects. He explains why destiny election disputes can be worse than past ones—more acrimonious, extra distorted through unsubstantiated allegations, and amplified by means of social media. No reader will fail to finish with Hasen that election reform is an pressing precedence, person who calls for the eye of conscientious voters and their elected representatives.

Also available: The Fraudulent Fraud Squad, an e-excerpt from The vote casting Wars
Released February 2012   9780300187489   $1.99

By Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz, Christof Hartmann

Elections in Asia, written by means of specialists within the box, provides the first-ever compendium of electoral information for all of the sixty two states in Asia, Australia, and Oceania from their independence to the current. Exhaustive records on nationwide elections and referendum are given in each one bankruptcy. the 2 volumes presents the definative source for old and cross-national comparisons of elections and electoral method around the world.

By Martin Harrop

'...a very stronger textbook, averting lots of the pitfalls of the genre...the wheat-to-chaff ratio is gratifyingly excessive, in a box with extra chaff than most...it should have been a tricky booklet to put in writing; by way of any client try it charges various stars and a 'best purchase' recommendation.' - Ivor Crewe, instances larger schooling complement '...a energetic, readable introductory textbook.' - conversing Politics