Democracy -- What were the 1850s constitutions and electoral laws? -- The ideas that formed these new Australian colonial democracies -- The Colonial leaders that fought for and opposed democracy -- Obstructive Legislative Councils (upper houses) -- New South Wales -- The 18th century colony -- Victoria -- The colony of the goldfields and Eureka stockade -- South Australia -- The democracy colo…
Part 1. The state of democracy -- Part 2. Elections, parties and candidates -- Part 3. Campaigning.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book addresses the peculiarities of the current presidential election system not yet addressed in other publications. It argues that any rules for electing a President that may have a chance to replace the current ones should provide an equal representation of states as equal members of the Union, and of the nation as a whole. This boo…
Politics matter for financial markets and financial markets matter for politics, and nowhere is this relationship more apparent than in emerging markets. In this book, Santiso investigates the links between politics and finance in countries that have recently experienced both economic and democratic transitions. He focuses on elections, investigating whether there is a 'democratic premium' - wh…
Elections are episodic; governance is routine. This book studies patterns in public opinion on politics and society between elections in India. By using the survey data covering 24 Indian states including the National Capital Region of Delhi (NCR), it will serve as State barometers of public opinion. The surveys seek to understand how politics and governance processes are nested in the social a…