Comparing Democracies 2: New Challenges in the Study of Elections and Voting
- ISBN-10
- 0761972234
- ISBN-13
- 9780761972235
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 269
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-03-13
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Authors
- Pippa Norris, Lawrence LeDuc, Richard G Niemi
Description
`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 In this major new edition the world's leading international scholars have again produced an indispensable guide and up-to-date review of the whole field. Each of the chapters (the majority of which are completely new) provide a broad theoretical and comparative understanding of all the key topics, making this essential reading for students and lecturers of elections and voting behavior, comparative politics, parties, and democracy.
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- 2002-02-21
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