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  • A Different Democracy

    American Government in a 31-Country Perspective

    by Steven L. Taylor, Matthew Soberg Shugart, Arend Lijphart, Bernard Grofman ...
    Four distinguished scholars in political science analyze American democracy from a comparative point of view, exploring how the U.S. political system differs from that of thirty other democracies and what those differences ultimately mean for democratic performance. This essential text approaches the following institutions from a political engineering point of view: constitutions, electoral ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Introduction to the Laws of Statistical Sampling

    With Illustrations From Election Polling

    by Bernard Grofman ...
    Series series Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences
    Introduction to the Laws of Statistical Sampling is a clear, concept-driven guide for readers new to statistical sampling, including doctoral students and early-career researchers. Requiring only basic algebra and access to Excel, Bernard Grofman uses simulation and real-world examples—especially from election polling—to build intuition around the Central Limit Theorem and other foundational ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Introduction to the Laws of Statistical Sampling

    With Illustrations From Election Polling

    by Bernard Grofman ...
    Series series Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences
    Introduction to the Laws of Statistical Sampling is a clear, concept-driven guide for readers new to statistical sampling, including doctoral students and early-career researchers. Requiring only basic algebra and access to Excel, Bernard Grofman uses simulation and real-world examples—especially from election polling—to build intuition around the Central Limit Theorem and other foundational ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • How Polarization Begets Polarization

    Ideological Extremism in the US Congress

    by Samuel Merrill III, Bernard Grofman, Thomas L. Brunell ...
    Extreme polarization in American politics--and especially in the U.S. Congress--is perhaps the most confounding political phenomenon of our time. This book binds together polarization in Congress and polarization in the electorate within an ever-expanding feedback loop. This loop is powered by the discipline exerted by the respective political parties on their Congressional members and district ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Quiet Revolution in the South

    The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990

    Edited by Chandler Davidson, Bernard Grofman ...
    This work is the first systematic attempt to measure the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, commonly regarded as the most effective civil rights legislation of the century. Marshaling a wealth of detailed evidence, the contributors to this volume show how blacks and Mexican Americans in the South, along with the Justice Department, have used the act and the U.S. Constitution to overcome the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • New Developments in the Study of Coalition Governments

    Edited by Patrick Dumont, Bernard Grofman, Torbjörn Bergman, Tom Louwerse ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume suggests promising new avenues of research in analyzing coalition politics. Written by a group of leading scholars, the book clarifies a number of concepts too often taken for granted in the existing literature, performs theoretically-driven and methodologically novel comparative studies of the effects of institutions on coalition formation, revisits old empirical puzzles, ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Election Administration in the United States

    The State of Reform after Bush v. Gore

    Edited by R. Michael Alvarez, Bernard Grofman ...
    Some of the nation's leading experts look at various aspects of election administration, including issues of ballot format, changes in registration procedures, the growth in the availability of absentee ballot rules and other forms of 'convenience voting', and changes in the technology used to record our votes. They also look at how the Bush v. Gore decision has been used by courts that monitor ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Persuasion

    Edited by Elizabeth Suhay, Bernard Grofman, Alexander H. Trechsel ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Elections are the means by which democratic nations determine their leaders, and communication in the context of elections has the potential to shape people's beliefs, attitudes, and actions. Thus, electoral persuasion is one of the most important political processes in any nation that regularly holds elections. Moreover, electoral persuasion encompasses not only what happens in an election but ... Read more

    $197.99 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

  • A Natural Experiment on Electoral Law Reform

    Evaluating the Long Run Consequences of 1990s Electoral Reform in Italy and Japan

    Edited by Daniela Giannetti, Bernard Grofman ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In the early 1990s, major electoral reforms took place in both Italy and Japan; each replaced a form of “proportional representation” (in which voters cast a ballot for a party list) with a “mixed member” system (in which voters cast ballots for individual candidates and party lists). The reforms were enacted by political elites in the context of divisions within the dominant party, changing ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Internet and Democracy in Global Perspective

    Voters, Candidates, Parties, and Social Movements

    Edited by Bernard Grofman, Alexander H. Trechsel, Mark Franklin ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume provides an important update to our current understanding of politics and the internet in a variety of new contexts, both geographically and institutionally. The subject of e-democracy has morphed over the years from speculative and optimistic accounts of a future heightened direct citizen involvement in political decision-making and an increasingly withered state apparatus, to more ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • In Situ and Laboratory Experiments on Electoral Law Reform

    French Presidential Elections

    Edited by Bernard Dolez, Bernard Grofman, Annie Laurent ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In the modern era, representation is the hallmark of democracy, and electoral rules structure how representation works and how effectively governments perform. Moreover, of the key structural variables in constitutional design, it is the choice of electoral system that is usually the most open to change. There are three distinctive approaches to electoral system research. One, associated largely ... Read more

    $89.09 USD