Matthew Soberg Shugart

Bernard Grofman

Arend Lijphart

Steven L. Taylor

American Government in a 31-Country Perspective

Different Democracy

Brian Woodall

Sung-Chull Lee

Edwin Winckler

Professor Edwin Winckler

Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Programs Brian Woodall

DIVConsiders how electoral rules affect election results and argues that the impact of the same electoral systems is different from one culture to another /div

The Comparative Study of an Embedded Institution

Elections in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan Under the Single Non-Transferable Vote

Kenneth Newton

Lee Sigelman

Kenneth Meier

The Wit and Humour of Political Science is the serendipitous product of two senior scholars working across the world from one another and who independently collected funny and satirical articles on political science over the years with the intent of someday publishing them for a wider audience. The lead editors— Kenneth Newton (Professor Emeritus, University of Southampton, Visiting Professor, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, and Hertie School of Governance, Berlin) and the late Lee Sigelman (Columbian School of Arts and Sciences, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, George Washington University) — learned by chance of each other's projects. Newton and Sigelman joined forces with Kenneth Meier (Charles H. Gregory Chair in Liberal Arts and Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University) and Bernard Grofman (Jack W. Peltason (Bren Foundation) Endowed Chair in the Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine) to publish this collection under the joint imprint of APSA and ECPR. The collection includes previously published essays as well as original pieces never formally published. From the editors: This volume collects what in our opinions are the wittiest and funniest pieces about political science and political scientists. We are confident that even a small investment of the reader's time will be sufficient to disprove Baker's slur on our discipline. Like all good humour, much of the work we have chosen for inclusion has a serious point. It helps scholars keep an open and skeptical mind, it picks out our weak points in theory and methods, points out how research may be going wrong, and it pricks the balloon of bombast, pretentiousness, and jargon. And, not only that, it's fun... Its contents make essential reading for all political scientists, even the most senior, but it may be enjoyed by younger scholars, especially those without tenure (or worse yet, without a job), by other social scientists, and even— gasp—by readers unaffiliated with any academic discipline.

The Wit and Humour of Political Science

Matthew S. Shugart

Four distinguished scholars in political science analyze American democracy from a comparative point of view, exploring how the U.S. political system differs from that of thirty other democracies and what those differences ultimately mean for democratic performance. This essential text approaches the following institutions from a political engineering point of view: constitutions, electoral systems, and political parties, as well as legislative, executive, and judicial power. The text looks at democracies from around the world over a two-decade time frame. The result is not only a fresh view of the much-discussed theme of American exceptionalism but also an innovative approach to comparative politics that treats the United States as but one case among many. An ideal textbook for both American and comparative politics courses.

A Different Democracy

Shaun Bowler

Department of Political Science Shaun Bowler

DIVProvides the first systematic cross-national look at the operation of the Single Transferable Vote electoral system /div

Reflections on an Embedded Institution

Elections in Australia, Ireland, and Malta Under the Single Transferable Vote

This volume provides a broad and detailed picture of the act's impact on African Americans' lives.

Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act

Donald Wittman

The Madisonian approach to institutional design, as set forth in The Federalist Papers, is examined from the point of view of leading theorists of the "public choice" school who see themselves as the political heirs of that earlier legacy. ." . . the most ambitious attempt to date to reread The Federalist in the light of modern social science." - Publius

The Federalist Papers and the New Institutionalism

Elizabeth Suhay

Alexander H. Trechsel

"Electoral persuasion is central to democratic politics. It includes strategic communication not only by candidates and parties but also by interest groups, media, and citizens. This volume surveys the vast literature on this topic, emphasizing contemporary research and topics and complementing deep coverage of U.S. politics with international perspectives"--

The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Persuasion

Donald A. Wittman

." . . the most ambitious attempt to date to reread The Federalist in the light of modern social science." - Publius

In developing Legislative Term Limits, the editor has included material that has explicit and testable models about the expected consequences of term limits that reflect Public Choice perspectives. This book contains the best efforts of economists and political scientists to predict the consequences of legislative term limits.

Bernard Grofman

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