Elite Statecraft and Election Administration
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Elite Statecraft and Election Administration

Bending the Rules of the Game?

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Elite Statecraft and Election Administration

Bending the Rules of the Game?

About this book

The way in which elections are run is changing, as radical reforms or experiments have been introduced across the world. This book establishes why election administration might be used by political elites to win and maintain power. It identifies the role of elite interests in shaping election administration in USA, UK and Ireland.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Tables and Figures
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. List of Abbreviations
  6. 1 Election Administration and Electoral Studies: Theories, Frameworks and Anomalies
  7. 2 Election Administration – a Tool for Political Statecraft?
  8. 3 The Statecraft Approach: Bringing Political Elites Back in
  9. 4 'Stopping the Vote': Election Administration in the USA
  10. 5 'Modernising' Elections? Election Administration in the United Kingdom
  11. 6 'Our silly aul' pencils': Election Administration in the Republic of Ireland
  12. 7 Agendas, Systems and Processes: Elite Strategy and Election Administration in Comparative Perspective
  13. 8 Conclusions and Lessons for Theorists and Constitutional Designers
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index