'Losers' Consent' shows how being able to accept losing is one of the central requirements of democracy, and provides a major new contribution to our understanding of political legitimacy, comparative political behaviour, and democratic stability.
'Losers' Consent' shows how being able to accept losing is one of the central requirements of democracy, and provides a major new contribution to our ...
Based on data from new and established contemporary democracies across the globe, this leading team of experts examines how election losers and their supporters respond to their loss and how institutions shape losing. Losers' Consent shows how being able to accept losing is one of the central requirements of democracy, and provides a major new contribution to our understanding of political legitimacy, comparative political behaviour, and democratic stability.
Based on data from new and established contemporary democracies across the globe, this leading team of experts examines how election losers and their ...
In this volume a series of contributions look at the impact of direct democracy on those processes of representative democracy to raise and answer the question: Does direct democracy harm representative democracy?"
In this volume a series of contributions look at the impact of direct democracy on those processes of representative democracy to raise and answer the...
As the racial and ethnic minority populations of the United States grow past 30 percent, candidates cannot afford to ignore the minority vote. The studies collected in Diversity and Democracy show that political scientists, too, must fully recognize the significance of minority-representation studies for our understanding of the electoral process in general.
If anything has limited such inquiry in the past, it has been the tendency for researchers to address only a single group or problem, yielding little that can be applied to other contexts. Diversity in Democracy avoids this...
As the racial and ethnic minority populations of the United States grow past 30 percent, candidates cannot afford to ignore the minority vote. The ...
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 world. His book, Political Parties, first translated into English in 1954, has been very influential in both the party politics literature (which continues to make use of his typology of party organization) and in the electoral systems literature. His chief contributions there deal with what have come to be called in his honor Duverger's Law and Duverger's Hypothesis. The first argues that countries with...
Maurice Duverger is arguably the most distinguished French political scientist of the last century, but his major impact has, strangely enough, bee...
In this volume a series of contributions look at the impact of direct democracy on those processes of representative democracy to raise and answer the question: Does direct democracy harm representative democracy?"
In this volume a series of contributions look at the impact of direct democracy on those processes of representative democracy to raise and answer the...
