Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta André Blais
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Politics at the Centre
Politics at the Centre is a comparative study of the rules, norms and behaviour surrounding political party leadership. The primary analysis includes 25 parties in Australia, …
Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrat
Thirteen scholars reexamine one of the most provocative and debated models of bureaucratic behavior, as developed by William A. Niskanen in his seminal book, Bureaucracy and …
Letting the People Decide
A Stanford University Press classic.
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 …
Citizens Under Compulsory Voting: A Three-Country Study
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 …
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 …
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 …