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Virtues of Exit
Successful democracies rely on an active citizenry. They require citizens to participate by voting, serving on juries, and running for office. But what happens when those citizens …
Deliberative Peace Referendums
Peace referendums', which seek to manage conflict between warring groups, are increasingly common. Yet they remain erratic forces-liable as often to aggravate as to resolve …
Party Change, Recent Democracies, and Portugal
This book offers a critical overview on the literature on party change and provides original data on several dimensions of party organizations, focusing in particular on Portuguese …
Native Vote
The right to vote is the foundation of democratic government; all other policies are derived from it. The history of voting rights in America has been characterized by a gradual …
Ideological Flexibility of Political Parties in the Era of Transnational Cleavage
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of how the parties of Lega and Rassemblement National have adjusted their ideologies over a four-decade period to adapt to the new …
Data-Driven Campaigning and Political Parties
What is data-driven campaigning? According to prevailing accounts, this idea describes the rise of increasingly sophisticated, highly targeted, and often invasive uses of data …
Referendums and Representative Democracy
This volume analyses how the use of referendums affects the central functions and characteristics of representative democracy. It provides a balanced account of the interaction …
Passionate politics
In May 2019, Narendra Modi won the world's largest election. Defying expectations, he led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a resounding victory, with the highest vote share for any …
Regional and National Elections in Western Europe
Utilizing both historical and new research data, this book analyzes voting patterns for local and national elections in thirteen west European countries from 1945-2011. The result …
Why Youth Vote
This book examines the reasons why young people vote. Viewing political behavior through a psychological lens, this book uses psychological developmental models to test the theory …
Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class
This open access book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. Relying on different indicators, it …
Referendums and Ethnic Conflict
Although referendums have been used for centuries to settle ethnonational conflicts, there had yet been no systematic study or generalized theory concerning their effectiveness …