Introduction - Lawrence LeDuc, Richard G. Niemi and Pippa
NorrisLawrence LeDuc, Richard G Niemi and Pippa Norris
Comparing Democratic Elections
Electoral Systems - André Blais and Louis Massicotte
Referendums and Initiatives - Lawrence LeDuc
The Politics of Direct Democracy
Comparing Party Systems - Peter Mair
Candidate Selection - Reuven Y Hazan
Campaign Communications - Pippa Norris
The Dynamics of Electoral Participation - Mark N Franklin
Voting - William L Miller and Richard G Niemi
Choice, Conditioning, and Constraint
Political Cleavages, Issues, and Electoral Change - Russell J
Dalton
Consolidating Democracies - Larry Diamond
Richard G. Niemi is Don Alonzo Watson Professor of Political
Science at the University of Rochester, where he has taught for
forty-five years and has served as department chair, associate dean
for graduate studies, and interim dean. He earned his PhD from the
University of Michigan in 1967. Professor Niemi has been a
Guggenheim fellow and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in
the Behavioral Sciences. He has been a visiting professor at the
University of Lund (Sweden) and at the University of Iowa. In
2007–2009 he was president of the American Political Science
Association’s Section on State Politics and Policy. He is a
foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and a
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the
author, coauthor, or editor of numerous works on political
socialization, civic education, voting behavior, and various
aspects of state politics. He has an ongoing interest in the Native
Americans of upstate New York and Wisconsin, from whom he can trace
a portion of his ancestry.
Pippa Norris is Director of the Democratic Governance group in the
United Nations Development Programme in New York and the Maguire
Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard University′s John F.
Kennedy School of Government. Recent books include Sacred and
Secular: Politics and Religion Worldwide (with Ronald Inglehart,
2004), Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior
(2004), and Driving Democratization: What Works (2006). Norris, who
is a political scientist, has served as an expert consultant for
many international bodies including the UN, UNESCO, the Council of
Europe, International IDEA, the National Endowment for Democracy,
and the UK Electoral Commission.
`This excellent collection of essays provides a highly knowledgeable and insightful overview of current knowledge in the sub-field of elections and voting in the world′s democracies. Coherent in organization and wide-ranging in content and perspective, this is a book that should be read by anyone interested in political science.′ - Anthony Mughan, The Ohio State University
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