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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Setting the Scene for 2015 -- 2 The Political Economy of Austerity -- 3 Policy Performance and Political Payoffs -- 4 The 2015 Campaign -- 5 Choosing to Vote and Choosing a Party -- 6 Explaining the Election Outcome -- 7 The Politics of Discontent: Britain's Emerging Multi-Party Politics -- Appendix: Measurement of Key Variables -- Bibliography -- Index

"France Votes" analyzes the French elections of 2012 in the context of a France and Europe in crisis. With regard to the economy, Irwin Wall describes the ways in which the country's adherence to the common currency in the Eurozone has stripped France of its freedom of manouver. "France Votes" shows how a European-wide economic crisis was reflected in political crisis at home and the rise of new political extremism combined with mass disaffection from politics altogether. The result of all of this, posits Wall, is that France has become a no-choice democracy

Introduction: the social theory of voter turnout -- Conditional choice -- The social meaning of voting -- Conditional cooperation -- Conditional voters -- The social theory of turnout -- Education and high salience elections -- Mobilization and turnout in low salience elections -- Paradox lost.

Public choice or rational politics differs from other approaches to the study of political behavior in that it builds on models in which rational individuals seek to advance their own interests. This five-part volume surveys the main ideas and contributions of the field. It contains twenty-five essays written by thirty scholars, both economists and political scientists, from North America and Europe. Part I discusses the nature and justification for the existence of government and various forms it can take, including mixed, private, and public institutions, international organizations, federalisms, and constitutional governments. Part II examines the properties of different voting rules and preference aggregation procedures. Part III explores multiparty systems, interest groups, logrolling and political business cycles. The individual decisionmaker is the focus of Part IV, with surveys of the experimental literature on individual behavior, and why people vote as they do. The final section applies public-choice reasoning to bureaucracy, taxation, and the size of government.

Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Georgiana Banita and Sascha Pöhlmann Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of the Presidency: Elections and American Culture; Suffrage and Disenfranchisement; Manfred Berg -- From White Supremacy to the White House: Racial Disfranchisement, Party Politics, and Black Political Integration; Volker Depkat -- African Americans Voting: Visual Narratives of the Reconstruction Period; Sascha Pöhlmann -- Vote With a Bullet: The Aesthetics of Assassination in Stephen King's The Dead Zone and ""11/22/63""

Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Choosing Leaders -- 2 The Conventions -- 3 From J. Buchanan to A. Buchanan: Candidates and Voters -- 4 Tourists or Partisans? Political Background and Leadership Election Engagement -- 5 Leadership Election Support Patterns: Friends and Neighbours? -- 6 Town versus Country: Urban-Rural Divisions -- 7 Brothers and Sisters? Gender-Based Voting at Party Conventions -- 8 Inter- and Intraparty Attitudinal Differences -- 9 Rebels without a Cause? Supporters of Fringe Candidates -- 10 Going My Way? "Delivering" Votes after the First Ballot -- 11 Prince Edward Island and the Garden Myth -- 12 New Brunswick: The Politics of Language -- 13 Nova Scotia: The Challenge of Social Democracy -- 14 The End of the Affair? Political Scientists and the Delegated Convention -- 15 Conclusion -- Appendix: Leadership Election Profiles for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One | Ringo Street -- 1. A Legacy to Keep -- 2. Twins, Home, and Church -- 3. Segregation and Discrimination -- 4. A Political Awakening -- 5. The Second Wave -- Part Two | Hawaii Avenue -- 6. Michael, Miashia, and William -- 7. Getting Beyond Luck -- 8. Fighting and Organizing -- 9. Votes and Vetoes -- Part Three | The Fight for Our Children's Futures -- 10. D.C. Parents for School Choice -- 11. A New President and a New Opportunity -- 12. Tremors and Earthquakes -- 13. Hardball -- 14. Threats and Contradictions -- 15. At Long Last, Victory -- Part Four | Saving School Choice -- 16. Elections Have Consequences -- 17. Save the OSP -- 18. A Long, Hot Summer -- 19. New Beginnings -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Endnotes.

This paper presents an experimental study on the ability of human groups to escape the tragedy of the commons through institutional change. It shows that the groups identify institutional change as a means of resolving social dilemmas and are ready to apply it even if the change requires an unanimous vote. At the same time, the groups who were given the right to change the rules performed poorer on average than the control-groups. This result stands in contradiction to elementary economic reasoning as well as the results of previous experimental studies.

"While ethnic identities are found to play a key role in politics, not all members of a group toe their group's line and vote for its affiliated party. Why do some voters choose not to vote with their group when doing so can often be advantageous given the norms of ethnic favoritism observed across Africa? According to Afrobarometer data, between 30-52% of voters in Sub-Saharan Africa do not vote for their ethnic groups' party. This book argues that as individuals are less readily identified as members of their ethnic group, they are less likely to be treated as if they are members of that group, which in turn weakens their identification with the group. Individuals who weakly identify with their group are less likely to be influenced by their identity when voting. This approach makes this book the first study to theorize and empirically test the effects of the everyday identity construction process on ethnic salience and in turn on vote choice. To test the theory, the book develops the concept of ethnic distance and measures it empirically. Empirical tests find support for the argument in South Africa, Uganda, and the United States. These cases allow me to test the effect of ethnic distance on several different ethnic dimensions (race, language, and region) in a variety of contexts. As a first step toward matching our scholarly concepts of ethnicity to its complexity in the real world, this study is poised to alter the way we think about ethnicity in politics"--

Scotland faces its biggest choice since the 1707 union that made the United Kingdom - should Scotland be an independent country? The Yes and No campaigns are well under way but with the vote looming closer the information available to the public is still limited. What will happen after the referendum? What are the international implications? What about the UK's nuclear deterrant, currently housed in Scotland? What happens if the vote is 'No'? Is it even clear what independence will mean? What about the oil? What will the currency be? What will happen to the Old Age Pension pot if the UK splits

"A Profile of the American Electorate takes an extensive look at the political foundations and behaviors of citizens, yesterday and today. Presenting decades of data on voter choice, voter turnout, and public opinion in a way that is clear and accessible for students of political science, the book uniquely emphasizes the importance of voting, socialization, and reform measures to enhance good citizenship. It explores how Americans become conservative or liberal, why some vote and others stay home, their knowledge of politics, how polarized the public has become, and the complex motivations behind their vote choices"--

"In many established democracies, vote choices are growing more volatile over time. This book assesses how changes in voters' decision making process have contributed to this change. The first part of the book examines the evidence for the claim that the increase in volatility results from a shift in weight from long-term to more short-term determinants of the vote choice. This overview and the analyses that are presented highlight the limitations of existing theories of electoral change and call for novel explanations for voter volatility"--

1. Explaining Vote Choice -- 2. The Changing Social Bases of Party Support -- 3. Values and Beliefs -- 4. Party Loyalties -- 5. Does the Economy Matter? -- 6. The Issues and the Vote -- 7. Party Leaders: "The Superstars" of Canadian Politics? -- 8. Strategic Considerations -- 9. The Greens and the Perils of Being a "Single-Issue" Party -- 10. Electoral Dynamics in Quebec -- 11. The Shifting Contours of Canadian Elections -- Appendix A: Estimating the Multistage Models -- Appendix B: Values and Beliefs Appendix C: The Determinants of Vote Choice.