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  • Across Boundaries

    Essays in Honour of Robert A.Young

    Edited by André Blais, Cristine de Clercy, Ronald Wintrobe, Anna Esselment ...
    Why and how does secession happen? How do different levels of government interact with each other? Why do some multilevel governments work better than others? What makes political extremism so virulent in today's society? These are some of the most pressing questions in political science today.These questions and research areas – secession, multilevel government, and political economy – were the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Citizens Under Compulsory Voting: A Three-Country Study

    by Ruth Dassonneville, Thiago Barbosa, André Blais, Ian McAllister, Mathieu Turgeon ...
    Series series Elements in Campaigns and Elections
    A burgeoning literature studies compulsory voting and its effects on turnout, but we know very little about how compulsory voting works in practice. In this Element, the authors fill this gap by providing an in-depth discussion of compulsory voting rules and their enforcement in Australia, Belgium, and Brazil. By analysing comparable public opinion data from these three countries, they shed light ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Motivation to Vote

    Explaining Electoral Participation

    by André Blais, Jean-François Daoust ...
    Elections are at the heart of our democracy. Understanding citizens’ decisions to vote or to abstain in elections is crucial, especially when turnout in so many democracies is declining.In The Motivation to Vote, André Blais and Jean-François Daoust provide an original and elegant model that explains why people vote. They argue that the decision to vote or abstain hinges on four factors: political ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Anatomy of a Liberal Victory

    Making Sense of the Vote in the 2000 Canadian Election

    by Andre Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, Richard Nadeau, Neil Nevitte ...
    Anatomy of a Liberal Victory: Making Sense of the Vote in the 2000 Canadian Election provides a compressive account of the factors that led Canadians to vote the way they did in the Fall 2000 Canadian election, which resulted in a third consecutive Liberal majority government. The book explains the overall impact that these factors had on how well or poorly each of the parties did in the election. ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Anatomy of a Liberal Victory

    Making Sense of the Vote in the 2000 Canadian Election

    by Andre Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, Richard Nadeau, Neil Nevitte ...
    Anatomy of a Liberal Victory: Making Sense of the Vote in the 2000 Canadian Election provides a compressive account of the factors that led Canadians to vote the way they did in the Fall 2000 Canadian election, which resulted in a third consecutive Liberal majority government. The book explains the overall impact that these factors had on how well or poorly each of the parties did in the election. ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Multi-Level Electoral Politics

    Beyond the Second-Order Election Model

    by Sona N. Golder, Elisabeth Gidengil, Ignacio Lago, Thomas Gschwend, André Blais ...
    Series series Comparative Politics
    National-level elections receive more attention from scholars and the media than elections at other levels, even though in many European countries the importance of both regional and European levels of government has grown in recent years. The growing importance of multiple electoral arenas suggests that scholars should be cautious about examining single levels in isolation. Taking the multilevel ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Provincial Battles, National Prize?

    Elections in a Federal State

    by Andrea Lawlor, André Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, Laura Stephenson, William Cross ...
    In parliamentary systems like Canada, voters directly contribute to the election outcome only in their own riding. However, the focus of election campaigns is often national, emphasizing the leader rather than the local candidate, and national rather than regional polls. This suggests that elections are national contests, but election outcomes clearly demonstrate that support for parties varies ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Provincial Battles, National Prize?

    Elections in a Federal State

    by Andrea Lawlor, André Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, Laura Stephenson, William Cross ...
    In parliamentary systems like Canada, voters directly contribute to the election outcome only in their own riding. However, the focus of election campaigns is often national, emphasizing the leader rather than the local candidate, and national rather than regional polls. This suggests that elections are national contests, but election outcomes clearly demonstrate that support for parties varies ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Dominance and Decline

    Making Sense of Recent Canadian Elections

    by Andre Blais, Joanna Everitt, Patrick Fournier, Neil Nevitte, Elisabeth Gidengil ...
    Coming out of the 2000 Canadian federal election, the dominance of the Liberal Party seemed assured. By 2011 the situation had completely reversed: the Liberals suffered a crushing defeat, failing even to become the official opposition and recording their lowest ever share of the vote. Dominance and Decline provides a comprehensive, comparative account of Canadian election outcomes from 2000 ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Voting Experiments

    Edited by Karine Van der Straeten, Jean-François Laslier, André Blais ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a collection of papers illustrating the variety of "experimental" methodologies used to study voting. Experimental methods include laboratory experiments in the tradition of political psychology, laboratory experiments with monetary incentives, in the economic tradition, survey experiments (varying survey, question wording, framing or content), as well as various kinds of field ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Duverger's Law of Plurality Voting

    The Logic of Party Competition in Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States

    Edited by Bernard Grofman, Shaun Bowler, André Blais ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    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 ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Amrita Narlikar ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The World Trade Organization (WTO) is scarcely ten years old, but even in these early years of its existence it has generated debate, controversy and even outrage. Rulings on beef hormones and tuna-dolphin cases provide graphic examples of how the organization regulates and intrudes into areas of individual consumer choice, ethical preferences, and cultural habits. This deep and far-ranging impact ... Read more

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