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Letting the People Decide
A Stanford University Press classic.
Dominance and Decline
Coming out of the 2000 Canadian federal election, the dominance of the Liberal Party seemed assured. By 2011 the situation had completely reversed: the Liberals suffered a crushing …
Political Leaders and Democratic Elections
Outcomes of legislative elections are typically reported in terms of party support: how many votes and seats were obtained by each party? But in fact voters are faced with three …
To Keep or To Change First Past The Post?
First past the post is one of the oldest and simplest electoral systems. The logic is simple: the candidate with the most votes wins. It is the system in place in some of the …
The Motivation to Vote
Elections are at the heart of our democracy. Understanding citizens’ decisions to vote or to abstain in elections is crucial, especially when turnout in so many democracies is …
Multi-Level Electoral Politics
National-level elections receive more attention from scholars and the media than elections at other levels, even though in many European countries the importance of both regional …
Duverger's Law of Plurality Voting
Maurice Duverger is arguably the most distinguished French political scientist of the last century, but his major impact has, strangely enough, been largely in the English-speaking …
Provincial Battles, National Prize?
In parliamentary systems like Canada, voters directly contribute to the election outcome only in their own riding. However, the focus of election campaigns is often national, …
The Challenge of Direct Democracy
Based on extensive surveys conducted during and after the campaign, The Challenge of Direct Democracy is a comprehensive investigation of voter opinion, intention, perception, and …
When Citizens Decide
Three unprecedented large-scale democratic experiments have recently taken place. Citizen assemblies on electoral reform were conducted in British Columbia, the Netherlands, and …
Citizens Under Compulsory Voting: A Three-Country Study
Anatomy of a Liberal Victory
Anatomy of a Liberal Victory: Making Sense of the Vote in the 2000 Canadian Election provides a compressive account of the factors that led Canadians to vote the way they did in …