A behavioral theory of elections

Auts. Jonathan Bendor...[et al]. 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 ...

El siglo del sufragio

de la no reelección a la alternancia

El autor emprende una revisión de todo el proceso electoral mexicano a lo largo del siglo XX y examina las tres grandes etapas por las que pasó el país en esta materia: los años que corren entre 1910 y 1929, los años de la Revolución ...

The politics of electoral reform

changing the rules of democracy

Elections lie at the heart of democracy, and this book seeks to understand how the rules governing those elections are chosen. Drawing on both broad comparisons and detailed case studies, it focuses upon the electoral rules that govern what sorts of preferences voters can express ...

Electronic elections

the perils and promises of digital democracy

Since the 2000 presidential election, the United States has been embroiled in debates about electronic voting. Critics say the new technologies invite tampering and fraud. Advocates say they enhance the accuracy of vote counts and make casting ballots easier - and ultimately foster greater political participation ...

Comparing democracies

elections and voting in the 21st Century

Eds. Lawrence LeDuc, Richard G. Niemi, Pippa Norris. The benchmark first and second editions of "Comparing Democracies" represented essential guides to the global study of elections. Reflecting recent developments in the field, this timely third edition gives an indispensable state-of-the art review of the whole ...

Barack Obama

el espejismo

El autor de este libro, centra lo esencial de su trabajo en reflexiones y contactos hechos en el extranjero, sobre la política internacional. Comienza haciendo un esbozo de la política exterior de los últimos seis presidentes demócratas de los EE.UU. al que añade un ...

New Faces, New Voices

the Hispanic Electorate in America

'This innovative book deals with a large and understudied area: Latino political behavior. Its argument regarding the diversity of the Latino community is important and the authors' attention to generational differences in the community is a rarity. Significant and original, this book covers more ground ...

Los sistemas electorales españoles

evaluación y propuestas de reforma

El debate sobre la necesidad de reformar nuestro sistema electoral, en especial por lo que se refiere a la elección del Congreso de los Diputados, se ha planteado en España de forma recurrente en las más de tres décadas transcurridas desde la celebración de las ...

Parliament and Congress

representation and scrutiny in the Twenty-first Century

The constitutional background of both legislatures and their procedures are described and where possible compared. Currently unsolved problems often have much in common, in vexed areas such as ethics requirements or how procedural rules permit minorities fair access to legislative time before majorities prevail. British ...

Treinta años de elecciones en España

Ed. Pablo Oñate. Los textos que siguen a esta presentación son el resultado de unas Jornadas que se celebraron en la Universidad de Valencia para celebrar los Treinta años de elecciones democráticas en España, en las que un buen número de catedráticos de la Universidad ...

The message matters

the economy and presidential campaigns

The economy is so powerful in determining the results of U.S. presidential elections that political scientists can predict winners and losers with amazing accuracy long before the campaigns start. But if it is true that 'it's the economy, Stupid', why do incumbents in ...

Selección de candidatos, política partidista y rendimiento democrático

ÍNDICE:PRESENTACIÓN. Selección de candidatos, política partidista y rendimiento democrático: una introducción. Flavia Freidenberg y Manuel Alcántara Sáez.- I. HERRAMIENTAS DE ANÁLISIS. Selección de candidatos: métodos y consecuencias. Reuven Hazan Y Gideon Rahat. Procedimientos de selección de candidatos en las democracias nacientes. Bonnie N. Field ...

Electing the President, 2008

the insiders´ view

Edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Accompanying DVD. Just weeks after the November 2008 election, the Annenberg Public Policy Center's Kathleen Hall Jamieson and FactCheck.org's Brooks Jackson gathered top strategists and consultants for postelection analysis. Nicolle Wallace, Ambassador Mark Wallace, Jon Carson, Steve ...

Election campaigning

japanese style

"On the evidence of this book, Gerald L. Curtis is a member of that elite corps of academic authors who combine sound methodology, painstaking research and field work, interviewing skill, acute observation and analysis, enlightening and informative comparison, and an engaging literary style." -- Political Science ...

Only in America

Matt Frei, the BBC's former Washington correspondent, goes under the skin of the nation's capital to unravel the paradoxes of the world's last remaining superpower.The paperback has been fully updated to provide a unique view into the weird, wonderful and totally ...

La confección del voto

El derecho electoral de las Comunidades Autónomas

revisión y mejora

Dir., Luis A. Gálvez Muñoz. Esta obra versa sobre el tema tan recurrente y periódico como es la reforma del régimen electoral.

The american elections of 2008

Edited by Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier and Steven E. Schier. The American Elections of 2008 assembles leading political scientists and journalists to explain the election results and their implications for America's future. Topics include financing the elections, religion's influence, the media, and how the ...

Ganar el poder

apuntes de 86 campañas electorales

Ganar el poder es ganar elecciones. Tres consultores políticos, de tres generaciones diferentes, han unido su experiencia en la búsqueda de votos en un centenar largo de campañas electorales para contarnos las claves de algunas de ellas. Campañas para partidos en el gobierno y campañas ...

Epic journey

the 2008 elections and American politics

With President George W. Bush's approval ratings at record lows, the 2008 election was a contest that Democrats were predicted to win. And with Barack Obama's victory over John McCain, they did. But it was the highly unlikely journey to this likely destination ...