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Product Description<br/><br/><br/>The first edition of<br/>Comparing Democracies was a landmark text, providing students with a thematic introduction to the global study of elections and voting. In this major new edition the world′s leading international scholars have again produced an indispensable guide and up-to-date review of the whole field. Each of the chapters (the majority of which are completely new) provide a broad theoretical and comparative understanding of all the key topics associated with the elections including electoral and party systems, voter choice and turnout, campaign communications, and the new politics of direct democracy. This<br/>Second Edition will remain essential reading for students and lecturers of elections and voting behaviour, comparative politics, parties, and democracy.<br/><br/><br/>Review<br/><br/><br/>`This excellent collection of essays provides a highly knowledgeable and<br/><br/>insightful overview of current knowledge in the sub-field of elections and <br/>voting in the world′s democracies. Coherent in organization and <br/>wide-ranging in content and perspective, this is a book that should be read <br/>by anyone interested in political science.′<br/>- Anthony Mughan, The Ohio State University<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Richard G. Niemi is Don Alonzo Watson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, where he has taught for forty-five years and has served as department chair, associate dean for graduate studies, and interim dean. He earned his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1967. Professor Niemi has been a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Lund (Sweden) and at the University of Iowa. In 2007–2009 he was president of the American Political Science Association’s Section on State Politics and Policy. He is a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and