This book reviews the research on campaigns and elections and investigates the effects of campaigning in referendums, drawing on panel survey data, media conten

As the referendum becomes a more regular component of decision making, it leaves few, if any, institutions, processes and values of democracy untouched. Politic

This book, in bringing together some of the leading international scholars on electoral behaviour and communication studies, provides the first ever stock-take

This book focuses on the key actors in a referendum (the political elites/ parties, the media and citizens) and is centred around themes such as campaign style,

This book aims to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of direct democratic institutions and devices as they have developed both in the thinking of modern