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This book explores the consequences of lowering the voting age to 16 from a global perspective, bringing together empirical research from countries where at least some 16-year-olds are able to vote. With the aim to show what really happens when yo...

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The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocratic, aristocratic elements. Professor Manin challenges the conventional view that representative de...

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Election interference is one of the most widely discussed international phenomena of the last five years. Defending Democracies seeks to bring domestic and international perspectives on elections and election law into conversation with other disci...

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This book develops a new theoretical framework for studying the corruption, disintegration, and renewal of democracy: what it is, how it begins, and where in society it plays out. Nsstrm argues that modern democracy is a sui generis political form...

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För hundra år sedan lyckades arbetarrörelsen och kvinnorörelsen driva igenom sina krav på allmän rösträtt i Sverige. I första världskrigets slutskede gav högern -- skrämda av revolutionära krafter i Ryssland och Västeuropa -- till slut upp sitt mo...

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'Riveting . . . Essential reading' GUARDIAN 'Packed with hair-raising revelations' OBSERVER The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporters and author...

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The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication provides contexts for viewing the field, examines political discourse, media, and interpersonal and small group political communication, and considers political communication's evolution inside the al...

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'Riveting . . . Essential reading' GUARDIAN'Packed with hair-raising revelations' OBSERVERThe definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporters and authors ...

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Mellan 1918 och 1922 infördes allmän och lika rösträtt i Sverige. När riksdagen inleder sitt hundraårsfirande av rösträtten i december 2018 utkommer denna populärvetenskapliga forskarantologi med texter av statsvetare, historiker, ekonomhistoriker...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'A provocative take on the UK's new tribal divisions ... a book whose timing is pitch-perfect' Andrew Marr Many Remainers reported waking u...

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3 november 2020 avgörs vår generations viktigaste val i USA. Donald Trump utmanar gränsen för hur en president kan bete sig och med honom har världens förmåga att hantera konflikter, säkra öppen handel och ta sig an klimatutmaningen försvagats. Fr...

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The EU faces a serious crisis of democratic legitimacy. Citizens believe that the EU is run by distant and non-responsive political elites. The EU's perceived lack of responsiveness to ordinary citizens poses a threat to its very survival. This ti...

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In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she ...

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3 november 2020 avgörs vår generations viktigaste val i USA. Donald Trump utmanar gränsen för hur en president kan bete sig och med honom har världens förmåga att hantera konflikter, säkra öppen handel och ta sig an klimatutmaningen försvagats. Fr...

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3 november 2020 avgörs vår generations viktigaste val i USA. Donald Trump utmanar gränsen för hur en president kan bete sig och med honom har världens förmåga att hantera konflikter, säkra öppen handel och ta sig an klimatutmaningen försvagats. Fr...

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Meddling in the Ballot Box is the first book to focus exclusively on partisan electoral interventions. In these situations, such as Russia's intervention in the 2016 US elections, foreign powers try to determine election results in another country...

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Beginning with President Trump's first impeachment and ending with his second, FRANKLY, WE DID WIN THIS ELECTION chronicles the inside-the-room deliberations between Trump and his campaign team as they opened 2020 with a sleek political operation ...

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Across Western Europe, the global financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath not only brought economic havoc but also, in turn, intense political upheaval. Many of the political manifestations of the crisis seen in other Western and especially Sou...

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This book examines the electoral successes of anti-system forces in the rich democracies. It explains the rise of anti-system politicians and parties in terms of two separate but closely related developments: the rise of economic inequality and in...

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One of the most significant events in European politics the past two decades is the emergence of radical right-wing parties, mobilizing against immigration and multiethnic societies. Such parties have established themselves in a large number of co...

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Studies in International Institutional Dynamics, 3 (International Studies Library, 24) Public policymaking increasingly takes place on an international stage, drawing attention to how international bureaucracies set agendas and shape policy outcom...

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This volume analyses how the use of referendums affects the central functions and characteristics of representative democracy. It provides a balanced account of the interaction between referendums and representative institutions and actors, seekin...

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The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics brings to political science an accessible and comprehensive overview of the key contributions of gender scholars to the study of politics, and it shows how these contributions produce a richer understandi...

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This book examines the representativeness of party membership and analyses the potential consequences of changing representativeness. Parties with high membership ratios, as well as those experiencing severe decline, are compared and examined acro...

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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics offers a critical survey of the field of empirical political science through the collection of a set of chapters written by 48 top scholars in the discipline of comparative politics.

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The argument that Western democracy is being hollowed out, as political participation declines and party allegiance weakens, is now widely cited. Yet the indicators can be uncertain and until now there hasn't been a comprehensive comparative study...

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Lagen om krav på kvinnans oskuld vid giftermål upphävdes 1921. Efter en lång och modig kamp för kvinnans fulla människovärde som myndiga medborgare med politiska rättigheter, kunde Sveriges kvinnor för första gången år 1921 lägga sina valsedlar i ...

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Do political leaders matter for development in Africa? Political leaders south of the Sahara have taken centre stage since countries in the region gained independence in the 1960s, yet a 'leadership trap' soon emerged with power-holders overstayin...

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Guides young revolutionaries in the art of human communication and explains the tactics of organizing others to work within the system for social change.

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The British working class has become politically disenfranchised, this book explains how and why. This book explores the politics of class in Britain over the last 70 years. It shows how changing class sizes have set in train a process that has le...

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