... in Jerusalem in 1931 further increased the importance of Islam in arguments about Zionism and Palestine. The politics of local elections were dominated by debates about communal representation, too. Such case studies highlight the ways in which this period witnessed the continued politicization of religion...

... of party politics in the Lawra District, the 1954 elections, land disputes and succession conflicts, and Convention People's Party hegemony and the dissolution of the Lawra Confederacy. chiefs CPP Jirapa Lambussie Lawra Confederacy Lawra District incl Lawra Tumu District Lawra local councils Nandom...

...This chapter considers the role of media and journalists in electoral politics, focusing on the 2018 general election in Lebanon and the 2019 presidential election in Tunisia. Elections are ‘prime time’ for media instrumentalisation, but Lebanon and Tunisia were contrasting cases. Lebanon’s...

...This chapter argues that during the post–World War II years Republicans devised strategies for midterm campaigns that sought not only victories in those elections but also a larger revitalisation of their party’s fortunes. Hostility to the political power of organised labour and to policy...

...The 1966 midterm elections heralded a more tightly contested partisan era in American politics. Following Lyndon B. Johnson’s landslide win up and down the ballot in 1964, the Republicans made significant gains two years later. Scholars have been too enthusiastic in declaring this comeback as being...

... of words – the power of their votes.’ Ultimately, Republicans did not reclaim Congressional control in 1970 and this chapter argues that the 1970 midterms were, for many in the White House, a referendum on strategy and tactics for a White House far more concerned with the president’s 1972 re-election...

...In most histories of the 1970s, the 1978 midterm elections are a harbinger of the ‘Reagan Revolution’ two years later. With President Jimmy Carter increasingly ensnared by the crises of the 1970s, the Republicans gained seats in the House of Representatives and Senate for the first time since...

...This chapter explores whether a president’s home state is less punishing to the president’s party in midterm elections. Nearly every newly elected president in the post-war era increased the popular vote in his home state, often to a greater extent than the shift to his party in the national...

...Chapter 4 investigates Armenians’ stance in the 1957 elections and in the ‘general’ Lebanese and the intra-Armenian mini-civil war of 1958. Armenian parties participated in, and contributed to, political tensions in Lebanon. Simultaneously, they used their position in the Lebanese political system...

... were structured by two key regulations (issued in 1864 and 1871), relates these councils to the earlier provincial councils and explains how he election and appointment of council members took place. The election process in the local judicio-administrative sphere was a charged process...

... national identity and how these have been exhibited within both groups. It looks at manifestos of the Scottish political parties, both those issued for British General Elections since 1970 and those for Scottish Parliament elections. The chapter gauges the movement of the four major parties along both...

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...During the 2000 presidential election campaign, George W. Bush had promised to be a ‘uniter, not a divider’. With a bare majority of Republicans in Congress, Bush was widely expected to deliver on his promise and reach out across the aisle to forge bipartisan consensus. By the end of his two terms...

... elections 1999–2007, focusing on trends of candidate selection and recruitment in the SNP over time. The post-devolution performance of the SNP provides a good test for what happens to the issue of women's representation in changing political circumstances. The SNP did enforce proactive unofficial measures...

... in social housing on the other. Labour's Scotland Act had supplied the means for the SNP to gain power. The SNP finds it easier to prosper in Scottish Parliament elections. Devolution has provided the SNP with an unparalleled political opportunity. The success of the SNP has not been founded on a rising...

... elections. For voters who feel strongly attached to a party, it would seem unlikely to indulge in the practice of voting for different parties on the two ballots. first preference vote local government single transferable vote STV Additional Member System AMS Australia Ireland Republic of Malta party...

... in Edinburgh. This book assesses how the public has reacted to its initial experience of devolution now that two Scottish parliamentary elections have taken place. It asks what impact devolution has had on support for the maintenance of the Union and how well Scots feel they are being governed. It also...

... of the electorate turned out to vote at the parliamentary elections in May 2003 would suggest that devolution has been something of a disappointment for many people. Moreover, the mounting costs of the Holyrood building project, and the fact that its completion was around two years overdue, have drawn considerable...

...This chapter is on a set of dubious government practices following the regime change, as reflected in the OSCE reports on Turkey elections, in securing success at the ballot box, including the way in which the ruling AKP allegedly financed politics. The discussion details the unfair poll...

...American presidential elections, it has been said, are quadrennial plebiscites on national identity. The election of 2008 was no exception. Two versions of what it means to be American in the twenty-first century were articulated as part of the rhetorical strategy of the presidential campaign...