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The Measurement of Voting Power
Edward Elgar Publishing 1998; US$ 40.00This work measures a priori voting power in social choice theory, presenting a systematic and critical examination of a priori voting, and analyzing the foundations and methodological assumptions underlying the theory. At the same time, it presents case study examples. more...
March 8
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2008; US$ 37.90For a whole generation of Malaysians, no proper closure to the traumas of the racial riots of May 13, 1969 has been possible.But then came March 8, 2008The surprising results of the General Election on that special day have started eclipsing the fears linked for so long to that spectral night forty years ago.All the three researchers from ISEAS who... more...
Indonesian Electoral Behaviour
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2004; US$ 64.90In Indonesias plural society, ethnicity and religion are often considered as two important independent variables to explain electoral behaviour. Many writers have used qualitative methods to relate the performance of political parties in terms of ethnicity and religion. This book questions these assumptions by looking at up-to-date data on the... more...
Losers' Consent
OUP Oxford 2005; US$ 44.99Democratic elections are designed to create unequal outcomes: for some to win, others have to lose. This book examines the consequences of this inequality for the legitimacy of democratic political institutions and systems. Using survey data collected in democracies around the globe, the authors argue that losing generates ambivalent attitudes towards... more...
The Labour Party in Britain and Norway
I.B.Tauris 2011; US$ 96.00In the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution of 1917, the nature, aims and trajectories of the Labour parties of Europe were fundamentally altered and transformed. In this compelling and thoughtful analysis of the Labour parties of Britain and Norway, David Redvaldsen offers an insight into the successes and failures of these two parties... more...
Comparing Democracies
SAGE Publications 2009; US$ 59.00Revised and updated edition of this popular review of the global study of elections, with contributions from the leading scholars in the field. more...
Toward the United Front
BRILL 2011; US$ 283.00This book offers, for the first time in English, the proceedings and decisions of the last congress of the Communist International held in Lenin?s lifetime. With an analytic introduction, detailed footnotes, 500 biographic notes, glossary, chronology, and index. more...
Selecting a President
St. Martin's Press 2012; US$ 19.99The debut of a brand-new civics series for high school seniors and college freshmen, that clearly, concisely and cleverly explains how the United States elects its president Selecting a President explains the nuts and bolts of our presidential electoral system while drawing on rich historical anecdotes from past campaigns. Among the world?s... more...
Mapping Extreme Right Ideology
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00An explanation of variations in the discourses and electoral success of 25 extreme right parties across 17 European political systems. The book shows how the European extreme right is mapped by the positions of parties and voters on two ideological dimensions, and how the match between these determines electoral success. more...
Race of a Lifetime
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableForget everything you think you know about the making of the most powerful man on the planet. President Barack Obama's triumph was not inevitable: it was the end product of a brilliant, calculated, convention-defying political campaign. In a race that will be talked about for years to come, he faced down his rivals with ruthless focus and efficiency.... more...









