This volume shows how Afghan elections since 2004 have threatened to derail the country's fledgling democracy. Examining presidential, parliamentary, and provincial council elections and conducting interviews with more than one hundred candidates, officials, community leaders, a…
Democracy is perhaps the defining characteristic of modern Western society, but even as late as the nineteenth century it was often viewed with suspicion by many who saw it as akin to anarchy and mob rule. It was not until the French and American revolutions of the eighteenth ce…
"Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how political elites used high levels of voter ignorance to create a new type of regulatory state with lasting implications for American politics. Focusing on the expansion of bureaucratic authority in late-nineteenth-century America,…
"Many countries have experimented with different electoral rules in order to increase involvement in the political system or to make it easier to form stable governments. Barry Ames explores this important topic in one of the world's most populous and important democracies, Braz…
A sophisticated application of rational choice theory.
"In the aftermath of explosive civil wars in Africa during the 1990s and 2000s, the establishment of multi-party elections has often been heralded by the West as signaling the culmination of the conflict and the beginning of a period of democratic rule. However, the outcomes of …
"In the aftermath of explosive civil wars in Africa during the 1990s and 2000s, the establishment of multi-party elections has often been heralded by the West as signaling the culmination of the conflict and the beginning of a period of democratic rule. However, the outcomes of …
"In the aftermath of explosive civil wars in Africa during the 1990s and 2000s, the establishment of multi-party elections has often been heralded by the West as signaling the culmination of the conflict and the beginning of a period of democratic rule. However, the outcomes of …
DIE VERFLIXTE MATHEMATIK DER DEMOKRATIE ist eine Erläuterung und historische Einführung in die Probleme, die in einer Demokratie entstehen können. Die Mehrheitswahl und die Zuteilung von Sitzen in einem Parlament werfen mathematische Fragen auf, zu deren Beschreibung zwar nicht …