The year 2014 welcomed two major events of national importance for Scotland, the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and the Scottish Independence Referendum. These national sporting and political events provided Scotland and its citizens with an opportunity to display the nation on the …
"Elections are at the heart of our democracy. Understanding citizens' decision to vote or to abstain in elections is crucial, especially when turnout is declining. In this book, André Blais and Jean-François Daoust provide an original and elegant model that explains why people v…
"Elections are at the heart of our democracy. Understanding citizens' decision to vote or to abstain in elections is crucial, especially when turnout is declining. In this book, André Blais and Jean-François Daoust provide an original and elegant model that explains why people v…
"Elections are at the heart of our democracy. Understanding citizens' decision to vote or to abstain in elections is crucial, especially when turnout is declining. In this book, André Blais and Jean-François Daoust provide an original and elegant model that explains why people v…
Yemen’s exercise with democracy started with the unification of Yemen Arab Republic and the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen in 1990, where the ruling parties acknowledged that to retain power, they had to share power. This window of opportunity instituted a hopeful democra…
This study examines sources of electoral support in Turkey and seeks to explain how Turkish voters approach electoral choice. The existing literature on Turkish voting behavior tends to emphasize social and cultural cleavages as the primary sources of voter alignments and party …
Multiparty elections have become the bellwether by which all democracies are judged, and the spread of these systems across Africa has been widely hailed as a sign of the continent2019s progress towards stability and prosperity. But such elections bring their own challenges, par…