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Sinopsis
The benchmark first and second editions of Comparing Democracies represented essential guides to the global study of elections. Reflecting recent developments in the field, this timely third edition gives an indispensable state-of-the art review of the whole field from the world′s leading international scholars.
With a completely new thematic introduction which explores how democracy is built and sustained, thoroughly updated chapters (many of which are also new) , the third edition provides a theoretical and comparative understanding of the major topics related to elections and introduces important work on key new areas.
Comparing Democracies, third edition will remain a must-read for students and lecturers of elections and voting behaviour, comparative politics, parties, and democracy.
Contents:
Introduction: Building and Sustaining Democracy
Lawrence LeDuc, Richard G. Niemi, and Pippa Norris
PART I: ELECTORAL INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES
Electoral Systems and Election Management
Elisabeth Carter and David M. Farrell
Political Parties and Party Systems
Susan E. Scarrow
Party and Campaign Finance
Ingrid van Biezen
Election Campaigns
Christopher Wlezien
Campaign Communications and Media
Claes H. de Vreese
PART II: PUBLIC OPINION AND VOTING
Ideology, Partisanship and Democratic Development
Russell J. Dalton
Political Participation
André Blais
Elections and the Economy
Timothy Hellwig
Women and Elections
Marian Sawer
Conclusion
The Consequences of Elections
G. Bingham Powell
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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.
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