The mad, mad world of elections

Abstract Elections: A Very Short Introduction focuses on the key concepts surrounding elections that occur in all democracies and nondemocratic regimes. Elections, e...

Computational propaganda can take the form of automated accounts (bots) spreading information, algorithmic manipulation, and fake news to shape public opinion, among other methods....

This chapter discusses the vicissitudes of creative madness, enthusiasm, and inspiration in the eighteenth century, in relation to writing by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, who...

This introductory chapter is about how historians have overlooked a wave of private-sector union organizing efforts in the 1970s. These efforts were led by the women and people of ...

O'Shaughnessy, Henneberg, and their contributors examine how the theory and practice of marketing has been and can be applied to politics. Particular attention was paid to the theo...

The practice of annual election to the major civic offices was a distinguishing feature of urban polities in late medieval England, where political power was not based upon lineage...

Chapter 8 focuses on issues of transparency, particularly how far U.S. states allow nonpartisan observers to scrutinize the electoral process and results. This is a common practice...