Product Description: 2009 war in Deutschland ein Superwahljahr - acht Kommunalwahlen, vier Landtagswahlen, eine Europawahl, eine Bundespräsidentenwahl und nicht zuletzt die Bundestagswahl standen an. Was bedeutete dies für die politische Kommunikationslandschaft in Deutschland? Sind in Deutschland neben Twitter, Blogs und Podcasts auch noch die traditionellen Mittel des Wahlkampfes und der Wahlkampfberichterstattung weiter von Bedeutung? Diesen und ähnlichen Fragen gehen in diesem Buch Publizisten, Wahlkampfpraktiker und Kommunikationsforscher gleichermaßen nach...read more

Product Description: Most theories of elections assume that voters and political actors are fully rational. While these formulations produce many insights, they also generate anomalies--most famously, about turnout. The rise of behavioral economics has posed new challenges to the premise of rationality...read more

Product Description: A large body of electoral studies and political party research argues that the institutional context defines incentives that shape citizen participation and voting choice. With the unique resources of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, this book provides the first systematic evaluation of this topic...read more

Product Description: Through a series of frank and incisive case studies of conflicted countries, contributors' chapters challenge the centrality and timing of elections as a key pillar of reconstruction at a war's end. They underline the dangers in rushing elections, compromising principles, and lowering the bar for what constitutes free and fair elections in situations of conflict...read more

Product Description: The U.S. Presidential Election is the toughest race in the world to win. Find out what it takes to become the Commander in Chief1Since we have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, it's important the people--including you--know what goes on during an election year and how the people pick a president...read more

Product Description: Readers discover how we select our countrys leaders and answers to many other questions in this enlightening volume. They learn about the democratic process in a way that is both educational and engaging, discovering through accessible text the importance of voting and how elections work...read more

Product Description: Why do people vote in elections? Learn about elections and why its important that people vote. Take a close look at elections.

Product Description: Voters on the Move or on the Run? addresses electoral change, the reasons, and the consequences. By investigating heterogeneity of voting, and complexity of voting and its context the volume shows that increasing heterogeneity is not arbitrary and unstructured...read more

Amel Ahmed brings new historical evidence and a novel theoretical framework to bear on the study of democratization. Looking at the politics of electoral system choice at the time of suffrage expansion among early democratizers, she shows that the electoral systems used in advanced democracies today were initially devised as exclusionary safeguards to protect pre-democratic elites from the impact of democratization and, particularly, the existential threat posed by working class mobilization. The ubiquitous use and enduring nature of these safeguards calls into question the familiar picture of democracy moving along a path of increasing inclusiveness. Instead, what emerges is a picture that is riddled with ambiguity, where inclusionary democratic reforms combine with exclusionary electoral safeguards to form a permanent part of the new democratic order. This book has important implications for our understanding of the dynamics of democratic development both in early democracies and in emerging democracies today.

Voting may not be a legal obligation, but it is certainly one of the most important privileges citizens of a democracy have. Serving as a primer on civic engagement, this lively volume teaches readers about the basics of the electoral processfrom registration to casting a ballotin the United States. Readers will learn about the different types of elections, what campaigns are, and how ordinary citizens can effect change. Guiding questions invite readers to consider the reasons for various electoral practices and educate them on the importance of making their voices heard.

Product Description: As our experience regarding the practice of deliberation grows, the position from which we evaluate it, and the criteria of this evaluation, change. This book presents a synthesis of recent research that has brought detailed and robust results...read more