Karine Van Der Straeten, Toulouse School of Economics, CNRS, Toulouse, France
Jean-François Laslier, Paris School of Economics, CNRS, Paris, France
André Blais, Université de Montréal, Département de science politique, Montréal, QC, Canada
23 Ebooks by Andre Blais
Bernard Grofman & André Blais: Duverger’s Law of Plurality Voting
Maurice Duverger is arguably the most distinguished French political scientist of the last century, but his major impact has, strangely enough, been largely in the English-speaking world. His book, P …
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€96.29
André Blais & Jean-François Laslier: Voting Experiments
This book presents a collection of papers illustrating the variety of ‘experimental’ methodologies used to study voting. Experimental methods include laboratory experiments in the tradition of …
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€106.99
Christopher J. Anderson & Andre Blais: Losers’ Consent
Democratic elections are designed to create unequal outcomes: for some to win, others have to lose. This book examines the consequences of this inequality for the legitimacy of democratic political …
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€54.14
Andre Blais: To Keep or To Change First Past The Post?
First past the post is one of the oldest and simplest electoral systems. The logic is simple: the candidate with the most votes wins. It is the system in place in some of the oldest democracies, most …
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€46.51
Kees Aarts & Andre Blais: Political Leaders and Democratic Elections
Outcomes of legislative elections are typically reported in terms of party support: how many votes and seats were obtained by each party? But in fact voters are faced with three choices which must be …
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€38.58
Andre Blais & R. Kenneth Carty: When Citizens Decide
Three unprecedented large-scale democratic experiments have recently taken place. Citizen assemblies on electoral reform were conducted in British Columbia, the Netherlands, and Ontario. Groups of …
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€124.06
Andre Blais & William P. Cross: Politics at the Centre
Politics at the Centre is a comparative study of the rules, norms and behaviour surrounding political party leadership. The primary analysis includes 25 parties in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New …
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€122.35
Andre Blais & Donald E. Blake: Governments, Parties, and Public Sector Employees
Public sector employees, as part of both society and government, offer an excellent case study to test the autonomy of politics from society. After rigorous research, Andre Blais, Donald E. Blake, …
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€136.48
Andre Blais & Joanna Everitt: Dominance and Decline
Coming out of the 2000 Canadian federal election, the dominance of the Liberal Party seemed assured. By 2011 the situation had completely reversed: the Liberals suffered a crushing defeat, failing …
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€31.28
Andre Blais & Joanna Everitt: Dominance and Decline
Coming out of the 2000 Canadian federal election, the dominance of the Liberal Party seemed assured. By 2011 the situation had completely reversed: the Liberals suffered a crushing defeat, failing …
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€31.28
Andre Blais & Louis Massicotte: Establishing the Rules of the Game
There are an astonishing variety of election laws across contemporary democratic societies. In Establishing the Rules of the Game, Louis Massicotte, Andre Blais, and Antoine Yoshinaka provide the …
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€34.72
Andre Blais & Richard Johnston: Letting the People Decide
The authors have based the book primarily on data derived from the 1988 Canadian Election Study, for which they were co-investigators. The survey was a "rolling cross-section": a daily …
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€91.14
Andre Blais & Richard Johnston: Challenge of Direct Democracy
Based on extensive surveys conducted during and after the campaign, The Challenge of Direct Democracy is a comprehensive investigation of voter opinion, intention, perception, and behaviour in a …
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€90.56
Andre Blais & William P. Cross: Provincial Battles, National Prize?
In parliamentary systems like Canada, voters directly contribute to the election outcome only in their own riding. However, the focus of election campaigns is often national, emphasizing the leader …
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€29.97
Andre Blais & Elisabeth Gidengil: Anatomy of a Liberal Victory
Anatomy of a Liberal Victory: Making Sense of the Vote in the 2000 Canadian Election provides a compressive account of the factors that led Canadians to vote the way they did in the Fall 2000 …
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€31.32
Andre Blais & Elisabeth Gidengil: Anatomy of a Liberal Victory
Anatomy of a Liberal Victory: Making Sense of the Vote in the 2000 Canadian Election provides a compressive account of the factors that led Canadians to vote the way they did in the Fall 2000 …
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€31.30
Andre Blais & Elisabeth Gidengil: Multi-Level Electoral Politics
National-level elections receive more attention from scholars and the media than elections at other levels, even though in many European countries the importance of both regional and European levels …
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€86.47
Andre Blais & Elisabeth Gidengil: Multi-Level Electoral Politics
National-level elections receive more attention from scholars and the media than elections at other levels, even though in many European countries the importance of both regional and European levels …
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€75.05
Andre Blais & Cristine de Clercy: Across Boundaries
Why and how does secession happen? How do different levels of government interact with each other? Why do some multilevel governments work better than others? What makes political extremism so …
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€33.73
Andre Blais & Cristine de Clercy: Across Boundaries
Why and how does secession happen? How do different levels of government interact with each other? Why do some multilevel governments work better than others? What makes political extremism so …
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€33.73
Andre Blais & William P. Cross: Provincial Battles, National Prize?
In parliamentary systems like Canada, voters directly contribute to the election outcome only in their own riding. However, the focus of election campaigns is often national, emphasizing the leader …
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€30.06
Thiago Barbosa & Andre Blais: Citizens Under Compulsory Voting: A Three-Country Study
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€21.23
Thiago Barbosa & Andre Blais: Citizens Under Compulsory Voting: A Three-Country Study
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€21.25
