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Contemporary Voting in Europe

Author : Alexis Chommeloux
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137509643
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Voting in Europe written by Alexis Chommeloux and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-13 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an original, international and multidisciplinary perspective on the recent and extensive political and constitutional changes in Europe. The contributors cover changes from several key European countries, whether European Union members, applicant members, non-EU members or potentially former members, namely France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Spain, the Western Balkans and Switzerland. The volume offers a rare understanding of contemporary European societies by examining how people’s choices as citizens and voters have influenced and can influence those changes and thus make a difference via elections and referendums. It will appeal to students and scholars of European studies, comparative politics, and voting behaviour, as well as to the wider readership interested in current affairs and European issues.

The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe

Author : Anthoula Malkopoulou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317693345
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe written by Anthoula Malkopoulou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is voting out of fashion? Does it matter if voters don't show up at the polls? If yes, is legal enforcement of voting compatible with democracy? These are just a few of the questions linked to the thorny problem of electoral abstention. This book addresses the hot question whether there is a duty to vote and if this is enforceable in the form of compulsory voting. Divided into two parts, Anthoula Malkopoulou begins by expertly presenting the importance of compulsory voting today, situating the debate within the contemporary discussion on liberty, equality and democracy. Then, she questions the historical origins of the idea in Europe. In particular, she examines parliamentary discussions and other primary sources from France and Greece, including a few additional insights from other countries like Switzerland and Belgium. Focusing especially on the years between 1870 and 1930, the reader learns about the historical actors of the debates, their efforts to legitimate punishment of abstention through normative arguments, but also their strategic motivations and political interests. While discussions at the beginning of the century focus on introducing compulsory voting, Malkopoulou criticizes its misuse after the Second World War, exposing the contingency of relevant normative claims today and the conditionality of compulsory voting. From ancient times until today, you learn about the ideological debates, their political context and how the problems of equal representation and democratic moderation persist through the ages.

The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe

Author : Anthoula Malkopoulou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317693337
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe written by Anthoula Malkopoulou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is voting out of fashion? Does it matter if voters don't show up at the polls? If yes, is legal enforcement of voting compatible with democracy? These are just a few of the questions linked to the thorny problem of electoral abstention. This book addresses the hot question whether there is a duty to vote and if this is enforceable in the form of compulsory voting. Divided into two parts, Anthoula Malkopoulou begins by expertly presenting the importance of compulsory voting today, situating the debate within the contemporary discussion on liberty, equality and democracy. Then, she questions the historical origins of the idea in Europe. In particular, she examines parliamentary discussions and other primary sources from France and Greece, including a few additional insights from other countries like Switzerland and Belgium. Focusing especially on the years between 1870 and 1930, the reader learns about the historical actors of the debates, their efforts to legitimate punishment of abstention through normative arguments, but also their strategic motivations and political interests. While discussions at the beginning of the century focus on introducing compulsory voting, Malkopoulou criticizes its misuse after the Second World War, exposing the contingency of relevant normative claims today and the conditionality of compulsory voting. From ancient times until today, you learn about the ideological debates, their political context and how the problems of equal representation and democratic moderation persist through the ages.

Faces on the Ballot

Author : Alan Renwick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199685045
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Faces on the Ballot written by Alan Renwick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the key shifts in contemporary politics is the trend towards greater personalization. Collective actors such as political parties are losing relevance. Citizens are slowly dealigning from these actors, and individual politicians are therefore growing in importance in elections, in government, within parties, and in media reporting of politics. A crucial question concerns how this new pattern could be restructuring politics over the long run - notably, whether the personalization of politics is changing the institutional architecture of contemporary democracies. The authors show that the trend towards personalization is indeed changing core democratic institutions. Studying the evolution of electoral systems in thirty-one European democracies since 1945, they demonstrate that, since the 1990s, there has been a shift towards more personalized electoral systems. Electoral systems in most European countries now allow voters to express preferences for candidates, not just for political parties. And the weight of these voters' preferences in the allocation of seats has been increased in numerous countries. They examine the factors that appear to be driving this evolution, finding that the personalization of electoral systems is associated with the growing gap between citizens and politics. Politicians and legislators appear to perceive the personalization of electoral systems as a way to address the democratic malaise and to restore trust in politics by reducing the role of political parties in elections. The book also shows, however, that whether these reforms have had any success in achieving their aims is far less clear. Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, and researchers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The Comparative Politics series is edited by Emilie van Haute, Professor of Political Science, Universite libre de Bruxelles; Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University; and Susan Scarrow, Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of Houston.

Voting Behavior in Europe

Author : Erik Oppenhuis
Publisher : Het Spinhuis
ISBN 13 : 9789055890248
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Voting Behavior in Europe written by Erik Oppenhuis and published by Het Spinhuis. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Underprivileged Voters and Electoral Exclusion in Contemporary Europe

Author : Dario Tuorto
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030975053
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Underprivileged Voters and Electoral Exclusion in Contemporary Europe written by Dario Tuorto and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the reasons behind voter turnout inequalities in contemporary Europe. It looks at the socioeconomic factors that can inhibit electoral participation at the individual level, and how these factors interact with the institutional constraints regulating access to the electoral arena, and considering the changes affecting the class system and occupational opportunities. The volume also reflects on the long-term effects of the 2008 Great Recession on the stability of democracy and the individual lives of voters, who are often deprived of institutional representation and left with the choice between anti-system protest and disengagement from politics.

The European Voter

Author : Jacques Thomassen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191534188
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The European Voter written by Jacques Thomassen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a systematic comparative analysis of how and why voting behaviour has changed in Europe in recent decades. It has been widely argued that radical changes have occurred in the how and why of voting behaviour in Europe as a result of changes in the structure of society, most notably the rise in material affluence and educational attainment, and the decline in religious observance and the size of the working class. But most tests of this proposition have been undertaken on single countries. This book, however, systematically tests the validity of this proposition across various European countries. The argument that social change has altered voting behaviour has been increasingly challenged on the grounds that it takes too little account of changes in the choices that are put before voters by the parties, such as the promises and proposals that are put forward at election time. This book, therefore, also assesses the relative explanatory power of claims that voting behaviour has changed because of changes in society against claims that it responds to changes in the offerings of political parties. And it is clear from the analyses reported in this book that contrary to the claims of much of the extant literature, the latter argument appears better able to account for many of the patterns and changes in European voting behaviour, and thus the book constitutes an important challenge to much current academic orthodoxy. This is the first book to provide a systematic comparison of the long-term dynamics of the voting behaviour of individual voters across such a wide range of European countries, taking into account the dynamics of the choices put before voters by the parties and, for the first time, relating this to the way voters behave. Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary issues in comparative government and politics. The General Editors are Max Kaase, Professor of Political Science, Vice President and Dean, School of Humanities and Social Science, International University Bremen; and Kenneth Newton, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Southampton. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research.

European Standards of Electoral Law in Contemporary Constitutionalism

Author : European Commission for Democracy through Law
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book European Standards of Electoral Law in Contemporary Constitutionalism written by European Commission for Democracy through Law and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2005 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes the reports presented at the seminar on "European standards of electoral law in contemporary constitutionalism" organised by the Venice Commission in co-operation with the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Bulgaria in Sofia (Bulgaria), on 28 and 29 May 2004. Electoral law and co-operation with constitutional courts and courts of equivalent jurisdiction have been two of the main areas of the activities of the Venice Commission since its creation in 1990. The reports cover such fundamental issues as the advantages and shortcomings of different electoral systems, the case law of higher national courts on electoral disputes, the participation of foreigners in the electoral process at the local level, the electoral rights of individuals having the citizenship of other European countries and the possible development of electoral law within the European Union.

Compulsory Voting

Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Compulsory Voting written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you interested in how democratic systems function? Compulsory Voting delves into mandatory voting laws and their effects on electoral participation and governance. This book is a must-read for anyone keen to explore political science in-depth. 1: Compulsory Voting: Explore the origins and debates of compulsory voting, setting the stage for understanding voting mandates. 2: Voter Turnout: Analyze factors influencing turnout and how compulsory voting affects electoral participation. 3: Voter Registration: Learn about voter registration processes and their impact on compulsory voting laws. 4: Voter Identification Laws: Examine voter ID laws and their implications for compulsory voting and election integrity. 5: Election: Understand the electoral process and the role of compulsory voting in elections. 6: Direct Election: Compare direct elections with other methods and the importance of compulsory voting. 7: Electoral System: Discover different electoral systems and their influence on voter behavior and compulsory voting. 8: Voter Suppression: Investigate voter suppression tactics and how compulsory voting addresses these issues. 9: Youth Suffrage: Discuss the impact of compulsory voting on youth political participation. 10: Proportional Representation: Explore proportional representation and its connection to compulsory voting. 11: Electoral System of Australia: Analyze Australia's compulsory voting system and its effects on voter engagement. 12: Elections in Djibouti: Review how compulsory voting might influence elections in Djibouti. 13: Electoral Roll: Understand the role of the electoral roll in enforcing compulsory voting laws. 14: Federal National Council: Study the electoral system of the UAE's Federal National Council and its implications for compulsory voting. 15: Election Day: Discover how Election Day logistics are shaped by compulsory voting laws. 16: 2011 Kiribati Parliamentary Election: Explore how compulsory voting impacted the 2011 Kiribati election. 17: 2011 Seychellois Parliamentary Election: Analyze the influence of compulsory voting on the 2011 Seychellois election. 18: Lisa Hill (Political Scientist): Learn about Lisa Hill’s contributions to compulsory voting studies. 19: 2021 Ugandan General Election: Examine the potential effects of compulsory voting on Uganda's 2021 general election. 20: 2021 Kyrgyz Presidential Election: Consider how compulsory voting might affect the Kyrgyz 2021 presidential election. 21: Voter Turnout in the European Parliament Elections: Investigate how compulsory voting could influence voter turnout in European Parliament elections. Compulsory Voting offers a comprehensive look at how voting laws impact democratic governance. This book provides valuable insights into the effectiveness and implications of compulsory voting globally. Expand your political science knowledge today!

Comparative European Party Systems

Author : Alan Siaroff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135580243
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Comparative European Party Systems written by Alan Siaroff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the party systems of the whole continent of Europe. This work also includes case studies of the Baltic States and Balkan democracies and goes as far east as Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Turkey.

A Century of Compulsory Voting in Australia

Author : Matteo Bonotti
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9813340258
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book A Century of Compulsory Voting in Australia written by Matteo Bonotti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compulsory voting has operated in Australia for a century, and remains the best known and arguably the most successful example of the practice globally. By probing that experience from several disciplinary perspectives, this book offers a fresh, up-to-date insight into the development and distinctive functioning of compulsory voting in Australia. By juxtaposing the Australian experience with that of other representative democracies in Europe and North America, the volume also offers a much needed comparative dimension to compulsory voting in Australia. A unifying theme running through this study is the relationship between compulsory voting and democratic well-being. Can we learn anything from Australia’s experience of the practice that is instructive for the development of institutional bulwarks in an era when democratic politics is under pressure globally? Or is Australia’s case sui generis – best understood in the final analysis as an intriguing outlier?

Voting for Democracy

Author : John Daniel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429765770
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Voting for Democracy written by John Daniel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, the essays in this book examine the context and conduct of a series of watershed elections held in Anglophone Africa in the first half of the 1990s. These elections crystallized a wider process of democratization, underway in much of sub-Saharan Africa during the last decade, in which attempts were made to shift from various forms of authoritarian rule (colonial or racial oligarchies, military regimes, one-party states, or presidential rule) to pluralist parliamentary politics. This volume brings together for the first time, studies of these events in countries sharing a comparable legacy of British colonialism, an acquaintance with the Westminster constitutional tradition and related experiences of decolonization and democratic struggle. Written from a variety of perspectives by contributors with first-hand knowledge and long experience of research in Africa, the papers situate each election in its wider political context, examining the political forces at work and the events which gave rise to reform. All indicate that, despite Western pressure for reform and the influence of the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in Eastern Europe, internal African demands for democracy provided the primary driving force for change. Not all the elections fulfilled the hopes invested in them. In Nigeria, they were annulled before all the votes had been counted. In Kenya, the disarray of the opposition ensured the return to power of the old order. Even where they produced a successful regime transition, the democratic credentials of the new governments were sometimes seriously flawed. Yet for all these limitations, these watershed elections signalled important progress for African democracy. They brought a formal end to colonial rule in Namibia and to three centuries of racial discrimination in South Africa. They brought changes of government through the ballot box in Zambia and Malawi, among the first instances in Africa of such change being accomplished without the use of force. Above all, they provided African electorates with an opportunity to pass judgement on long-serving authoritarian regimes – with unequivocal results: in every case, when given the chance to vote, Africans voted for democracy.

Green Parties and Political Change in Contemporary Europe

Author : Michael O'Neill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429828829
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Green Parties and Political Change in Contemporary Europe written by Michael O'Neill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1997, This book offers an up-to-date guide to the Green parties of Western Europe as the optimism of the 1980s confronts the ‘Green fatigue’ of the 1990s. The approach is both thematic and comparative. Green politics in Europe is located in its historical and cultural context. There is a comparative analysis of the principal ideological questions , policy issues and strategic dilemmas that have confronted the European Greens. There are national profiles of Green politics throughout the European Union. The conclusion addresses the critical issue of political change in post industrial societies. It discusses the contribution of Green parties to the ‘New Politics’ and assesses their likely impact on post-modern politics

Contemporary European Politics

Author : José M. Magone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136933972
Total Pages : 959 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary European Politics written by José M. Magone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 959 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important new introductory textbook, José Magone provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to contemporary European politics. The unification of the European continent since the Fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the collapse of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe has changed the nature of European politics. This book seeks to address the new European politics that emerged out of this coming together of West and East. Utilizing a pan-European comparative approach the book: covers key topics, with chapters on the history, theory, institutions, parties and party systems, interest groups, systems of interest intermediation and civil society, the impact of European public policy and the emergence of a European common and foreign policy provides detailed comparisons of the national political systems across Europe, including Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans contextualises national politics in the growing importance of European integration examines the European Union multi-level governance system approach, highlighting relationships and interactions between the global, supranational, national, regional and local levels analyses the change from modern politics, in which the nation-state was still in command of domestic politics and its own borders, to postmodern politics in which de-territorialisation , de-nationalisation and internationalisation processes have transformed the national politics of European states facilitates learning through a wide range of pedagogical features, including chapter summaries, guides to further reading, questions for revision and extensive use of maps, figures, case studies and tables. Richly illustrated throughout, this work is an indispensable resource for all students and academics of European politics.

Social Democratic Party Policies in Contemporary Europe

Author : Giuliano Bonoli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134408900
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Social Democratic Party Policies in Contemporary Europe written by Giuliano Bonoli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the twentieth century saw an unprecedented coincidence of electoral success for social democratic parties in western Europe leading to intensive discussion on the future of this new European left. The debates often centred on the notion of a 'Third way' and generated major expectations for policy change among social democratic politicians and voters. The authors collected here examine the recent social and employment policies of these progressive parties, looking for change in the guiding principles of policy and on actual policy decisions. They show how the maxims of demand management and egalitarianism have been replaced by social investment and equality of opportunity and demonstrate the full extent of convergence on policies such as employment maximization, the containment of social expenditure and a shift towards a social investment welfare state.

The SAGE Handbook of Electoral Behaviour

Author : Kai Arzheimer
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 147395925X
Total Pages : 1382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Electoral Behaviour written by Kai Arzheimer and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of voting behaviour remains a vibrant sub-discipline of political science. The Handbook of Electoral Behaviour is an authoritative and wide ranging survey of this dynamic field, drawing together a team of the world′s leading scholars to provide a state-of-the-art review that sets the agenda for future study. Taking an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on a range of countries, the handbook is composed of eight parts. The first five cover the principal theoretical paradigms, establishing the state of the art in their conceptualisation and application, and followed by chapters on their specific challenges and innovative applications in contemporary voting studies. The remaining three parts explore elements of the voting process to understand their different effects on vote outcomes. The SAGE Handbook of Electoral Behaviour is an essential benchmark publication for advanced students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of politics, sociology, psychology and research methods.

Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe

Author : Andrea Mammone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136330380
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe written by Andrea Mammone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the revival of the far right and anti-Semitic, racist and fascist organizations has posed a significant threat throughout Europe. Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe provides a broad geographical overview of the dominant strands within the contemporary radical right in both Western and Eastern Europe. After providing some local and regional perspectives, the book has a series of national case studies of particular countries and regions including: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Scandinavia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. A series of thematic chapters examine transnational phenomena such as the use of the Internet, the racist music scene, cultural transfers and interaction between different groups. Drawing together a wide range of contributors, this is essential reading for all those with an interest in contemporary extremism, fascism and comparative party politics.