International Almanac Of Electoral History 1981
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The International Almanac of Electoral History
Author | : Thomas T. Mackie |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2016-07-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349098515 |
The International Almanac is the only up to date source for the history of election results in the Western world from their origins to the present. It provides clear and authoritative information for 25 different countries, ranging alphabetically from Australia to the USA, and geographically across four continents, including Japan and new Mediterranean democracies as well as old Anglo-American and Scandinavian democracies. Each chapter gives a comprehensive list of all parties that have contested one or more elections, its vote at each election and percentage share of the poll, and the number of seats won in the national assembly. The results have been checked from original sources in more than 15 languages. The new edition of the Almanac brings election results up to date and incorporates fresh materials from historical research, while retaining the features that have made the volume the authoritative book on elections.
Electoral System Design
Author | : Andrew Reynolds |
Publisher | : Stockholm : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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The Origin of Electoral Systems in the Postwar Era
Author | : Krister Lundell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2009-09-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135230668 |
This book explores and presents the influence of contextual factors on the choice of electoral systems for parliamentary elections in both democracies and non-democracies around the world. Taking a macroscopic approach, the author focuses on structural explanations, with an emphasis on general patterns rather than country specific explanations. Drawn from a wealth of data, the book presents the frequency of the adoption of each electoral formula and system in the postwar era and is followed by a theoretical elaboration of electoral system choice. The author then draws on rational, cultural/historical and institutional theories which are systematically analyzed by means of sophisticated bivariate and multivariate techniques. Lundell demonstrates that few electoral systems have been chosen from rational considerations and the impact of the cultural and historical setting is tremendous; colonial legacy, regional influence and temporal trends largely explain the cross-national variation in electoral systems. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, electoral politics and comparative politics.
Guide to resources and services
Author | : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1094 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Political science |
ISBN | : |
Electoral Laws and Their Political Consequences
Author | : Bernard Grofman |
Publisher | : Algora Publishing |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0875860745 |
The aim of this book is to provide an overview of recent research on electoral laws and their political consequences by scholars who have helped shape the field.
Age, Class, Politics, and the Welfare State
Author | : Fred C. Pampel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521437912 |
Detailed analysis of data from the UN, ILO, and the World Bank leads to the conclusion that a large aged population, especially in combination with democratic political processes, has a direct and crucial influence on the level of welfare expenditures.
Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability
Author | : Stefano Bartolini |
Publisher | : ECPR Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2007-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0955248833 |
The question of whether Western party systems were becoming more unstable and electorates more volatile had already become central to the study of modern European by the end of the 1970s. Much of the literature at the time stressed how Western Europe was experiencing a phase of party breakdown, dealignment and decay, and how traditional mass politics was in the process of transformation. In this first book-length analysis of the subject, Stefano Bartolini and Peter Mair convincingly demonstrated how this emphasis on change had been largely misconceived and misplaced. This was the first systematic and conceptually sophisticated work to bring together the study of electoral change and cleavage persistence, and has since become one of the landmark volumes in the study of electoral politics in Europe. The authors examine patterns of electoral persistence and change in Western Europe between 1885 and 1985. They assess both what these patterns indicate with regard to the persistence of traditional cleavages, particularly the class cleavage, and how these patterns vary according to political, institutional and social factors. They analyse the various patterns of competition which have characterised elections across the different European countries and in different historical periods, and how cleavages can persist and re-emerge even in the face of widespread social change. They develop a sophisticated model of aggregate electoral change, in which national electorates are conceived as being torn between the stability brought about by cultural identities and organisational structures and the stimuli for change that are provoked by party competition and institutional change. Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability was awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research and is now reprinted for the first time in paperback.