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Explaining Electoral Participation
Elections are at the heart of our democracy. Understanding citizens’ decisions to vote or to abstain in elections is crucial, especially when turnou...
Beyond the Second-Order Election Model
National-level elections receive more attention from scholars and the media than elections at other levels, even though in many European countries the...
Election Laws in Democracies
There are an astonishing variety of election laws across contemporary democratic societies. In Establishing the Rules of the Game, Louis Massicotte, A...
The Merits and Limits of Rational Choice Theory
Blais tackles the controversial topic of rational choice theory in an engaging and personal way, bringing together the opposing theories and literatur...
The Selection and Removal of Party Leaders in the Anglo Parliamentary Democracies
Politics at the Centre is a comparative study of the rules, norms and behaviour surrounding political party leadership. The primary analysis includes ...
Lessons from Citizen Assemblies on Electoral Reform
Three unprecedented large-scale democratic experiments have recently taken place. Citizen assemblies on electoral reform were conducted in British Col...
Elections in a Federal State
In parliamentary systems like Canada, voters directly contribute to the election outcome only in their own riding. However, the focus of election camp...
This Element examines citizens' perceptions, their knowledge of the system, and whether they support it. The authors connect this with information on ...
The Logic of Party Competition in Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States
Maurice Duverger is arguably the most distinguished French political scientist of the last century, but his major impact has, strangely enough, been l...
The Views of Canadians
A Royal Commission was formed to take into account public concerns regarding the electoral process. It conducted a number of public opinion surveys to...
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Citizens are central to any meaningful definition of democracy. What does it say about the health of Canadian democracy when fewer citizens than ever ...
Canada, United States, Britain, and France
Adopting a comparative approach and covering four countries over the period 1950-1990, studies the relationship between parties, government, and publi...
Three large-scale democratic experiments have taken place in which groups of randomly selected ordinary citizens were asked to independently design th...