Analyzing elections

This undergraduate text uses a formal model to show how and why elections rule American politics. The text also highlights empirical research from the 1980s and 1990s on the impact of voters, candidates, political parties and interest groups on the electoral process and policy outcomes ...

How voters decide

information processing in election campaigns

This book attempts to redirect the field of voting behavior research by proposing a paradigm-shifting framework for studying voter decision making. An innovative experimental methodology is presented for getting 'inside the heads' of citizens as they confront the overwhelming rush of information from modern presidential ...

I sistemi elettorali

Una sintetica ma sistematica ricognizione sui sistemi elettorali delle democrazie contemporanee e sulle loro conseguenze, con puntuali riferimenti alle leggi elettorali utilizzate in Italia dal 1946 al 2006.

Sistemas federales comparados

La traducción al castellano de esta segunda edición actualizada dela obra de Ronald Watts, ofrece un claro análisis del diseño y funcionamiento de una serie de federaciones elegidas por su relevancia desde la perspectiva canadiense. El punto de partida es la constatación de la experiencia ...

Web campaigning

This work talks about the evolution of electoral politics on the Web, based on extensive analysis of hundreds of campaign sites produced by candidates in U.S. elections in 2000, 2002, and 2004; a practice-based theory approach to understanding the relationship between the Web and ...

The vote motive

This highly accessible monograph, first published in 1976, applies economic analysis to the workings of democratic politics, explaining the preponderance of rent-seeking, log-rolling and over-government. This new edition, with a new foreword by Professor Tullock and commentaries by leading political economists, is issued 30 years ...

Communication des collectivités locales et des candidats en période électorale

La recherche d'une compétition électorale la plus équitable et la plus transparente a conduit le législateur à encadrer et dissocier la communication institutionnelle des collectivités locales de celle des candidats aux élections. Cette communication encadrée et délimitée en période électorale n'est cependant pas ...

Comparative federalism

theory and practice

A new examination of contemporary federalism and federation, which delivers a detailed theoretical study underpinned by fresh case studies. It is grounded in a clear distinction between 'federations', particular kinds of states, and 'federalism', the thinking that drives and promotes them. It also details the ...

Les systèmes électoraux et les modes de scrutin

La démocratie représentative nécessite l'organisation d'élections libres, et par là même la mise en place d'un système électoral permettant la définition du corps électoral, la nature et la durée du mandat des représentants, ou les modalités d'organisations du vote. À l ...

El régimen parlamentario en la práctica

INDICE: La teoría y la práctica. El poder y los partidos. Prensa política. Falseamiento de las elecciones. Corruptelas parlamentarias. Omnipotencia del poder ejecutivo. Impotencia del poder judicial. El interés dinástico. El Gobierno personal. La inmoralidad política. Sobra y falta de tolerancia. El orden público. El ...

Lobby

ética, técnica y aplicación

Qué es exactamente un lobby? ¿En qué consiste el modo de actuación de los lobbystas? ¿Cuál es, en definitiva, la ética, la técnica y la aplicación de esta actividad? A estas preguntas contesta, de forma clara y amena, Joaquim Martins Lampreia, quien a su gran ...

Forme di governo e crisi del parlamentarismo

SOMMARIO: Introduzione. # Parte Prima: Forme di governo e modellistica. # I. Teoria delle forme di governo e costituzionalizzazione degli Stati. # II. La teoria delle forme di governo tra diritto costituzionale e scienza politica. # Parte Seconda: Il semipresidenzialismo e il premierato, ovvero della crisi del parlamentarismo. # I ...

L'élaboration parlementaire de la loi

étude comparative (Allemagne, France, Royaume-Uni)

Quelle marge d'action reste-t-il effectivement aux membres des assemblées dans la production législative ? Peut-on attribuer la soi-disant faiblesse du Parlement et des parlementaires français à des spécificités institutionnelles et procédurales françaises ? Pour répondre à ces questions récurrentes du débat politique français, il faut pouvoir ...

Parlamenti democratici

Che cosa sono e che cosa fanno i parlamenti democratici? Questo libro analizza in maniera comparata e approfondita la struttura e il funzionamento delle assemblee elettive in cinque sistemi politici democratici - Francia, Germania, Gran Bretagna, Italia e Stati Uniti d'America - scelti in quanto rappresentativi ...

La evaluación de las leyes

XII Jornadas de la Asociación Española de Letrados de Parlamentos

La Asociación Española de Letrados de Parlamentos organizó sus XII Jornadas con el fin de estudiar la evaluación de las leyes, un tema absolutamente novedoso, sobre el cual la doctrina española es escasa. Hasta el presente la evaluación de las leyes en nuestro país es ...

The Canadian Senate in bicameral perspective

The Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective is the first book-length scholarly study of the Senate in over a quarter century and the first such analysis of the upper house as one chamber of a bicameral legislature. David E. Smith's aim is to demonstrate the ...

State constitutions for the Twenty-first century.Vol.1: The politics of State constitutional reform

Through illuminating case studies of reform efforts in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, New York, and Virginia, this book#the first of three volumes#provides the first systematic analysis of the political obstacles to state constitutional reform. For those seeking constitutional reform, this useful resource can ...

Secession

international Law perspectives

The end of the Cold War brought about new secessionist aspirations and the strengthening and re-awakening of existing or dormant separatist claims everywhere. The creation of a new independent entity through the separation of part of the territory and population of an existing State raises ...

Redefining the french Republic

This book investigates continuity and change in contemporary French politics, society, and culture. It: asks whether France will be able to resist the pressure from supra-national and global forces to change, or whether it will be able to retain a distinct French characteristic; examines the ...

El estatuto de Cataluña como instrumento jurídico

una meditación sobre España

La obra es un seguimiento iusfilosófico y técnico-jurídico a la "Propuesta de Reforma del Estatuto de Cataluña (30-9-05). Sus antecedentes (1714) están en el Preámbulo, con aires de Constitución. Con la CE de 1978, se culmina una Transición de consenso para la "Reforma", con el ...