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  • Introduction to the Laws of Statistical Sampling

    With Illustrations From Election Polling

    by Bernard Grofman ...
    Series series Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences
    Introduction to the Laws of Statistical Sampling is a clear, concept-driven guide for readers new to statistical sampling, including doctoral students and early-career researchers. Requiring only basic algebra and access to Excel, Bernard Grofman uses simulation and real-world examples—especially from election polling—to build intuition around the Central Limit Theorem and other foundational ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

  • Introduction to the Laws of Statistical Sampling

    With Illustrations From Election Polling

    by Bernard Grofman ...
    Series series Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences
    Introduction to the Laws of Statistical Sampling is a clear, concept-driven guide for readers new to statistical sampling, including doctoral students and early-career researchers. Requiring only basic algebra and access to Excel, Bernard Grofman uses simulation and real-world examples—especially from election polling—to build intuition around the Central Limit Theorem and other foundational ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

  • Quiet Revolution in the South

    The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990

    Edited by Chandler Davidson, Bernard Grofman ...
    This work is the first systematic attempt to measure the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, commonly regarded as the most effective civil rights legislation of the century. Marshaling a wealth of detailed evidence, the contributors to this volume show how blacks and Mexican Americans in the South, along with the Justice Department, have used the act and the U.S. Constitution to overcome the ... Read more

    $126.49 CAD

  • New Developments in the Study of Coalition Governments

    Edited by Patrick Dumont, Bernard Grofman, Torbjörn Bergman, Tom Louwerse ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume suggests promising new avenues of research in analyzing coalition politics. Written by a group of leading scholars, the book clarifies a number of concepts too often taken for granted in the existing literature, performs theoretically-driven and methodologically novel comparative studies of the effects of institutions on coalition formation, revisits old empirical puzzles, ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Elections in Australia, Ireland, and Malta under the Single Transferable Vote

    Reflections on an Embedded Institution

    Edited by Shaun Bowler, Bernard Norman Grofman ...
    The Single Transferable Vote, or STV, is often seen in very positive terms by electoral reformers, yet relatively little is known about its actual workings beyond one or two specific settings. This book gathers leading experts on STV from around the world to discuss the examples they know best, and represents the first systematic cross-national study of STV. Furthermore, the contributors ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Election Administration in the United States

    The State of Reform after Bush v. Gore

    Edited by R. Michael Alvarez, Bernard Grofman ...
    Some of the nation's leading experts look at various aspects of election administration, including issues of ballot format, changes in registration procedures, the growth in the availability of absentee ballot rules and other forms of 'convenience voting', and changes in the technology used to record our votes. They also look at how the Bush v. Gore decision has been used by courts that monitor ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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

    The Comparative Study of an Embedded Institution

    Edited by Bernard Norman Grofman, Sung-Chull Lee, Edwin Winckler, Brian Woodall ...
    In recent years there has been a marked resurgence of interest in the effects of electoral laws on important aspects of politics such as party competition. In this volume, a distinguished group of scholars looks at the impact of one set of electoral rules--the single non-transferable vote--on electoral competition in Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Under this plan citizens are allowed one vote even ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice, Volume 2

    Edited by Roger D. Congleton, Bernard N. Grofman, Stefan Voigt ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice provides a comprehensive overview of the research in economics, political science, law, and sociology that has generated considerable insight into the politics of democratic and authoritarian systems as well as the influence of different institutional frameworks on incentives and outcomes. The result is an improved understanding of public policy, public finance ... Read more

    $175.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice, Volume 1

    Edited by Roger D. Congleton, Bernard N. Grofman, Stefan Voigt ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice provides a comprehensive overview of the research in economics, political science, law, and sociology that has generated considerable insight into the politics of democratic and authoritarian systems as well as the influence of different institutional frameworks on incentives and outcomes. The result is an improved understanding of public policy, public finance ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Persuasion

    Edited by Elizabeth Suhay, Bernard Grofman, Alexander H. Trechsel ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Elections are the means by which democratic nations determine their leaders, and communication in the context of elections has the potential to shape people's beliefs, attitudes, and actions. Thus, electoral persuasion is one of the most important political processes in any nation that regularly holds elections. Moreover, electoral persuasion encompasses not only what happens in an election but ... Read more

    $231.99 CAD

  • In Situ and Laboratory Experiments on Electoral Law Reform

    French Presidential Elections

    Edited by Bernard Dolez, Bernard Grofman, Annie Laurent ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In the modern era, representation is the hallmark of democracy, and electoral rules structure how representation works and how effectively governments perform. Moreover, of the key structural variables in constitutional design, it is the choice of electoral system that is usually the most open to change. There are three distinctive approaches to electoral system research. One, associated largely ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • The Internet and Democracy in Global Perspective

    Voters, Candidates, Parties, and Social Movements

    Edited by Bernard Grofman, Alexander H. Trechsel, Mark Franklin ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume provides an important update to our current understanding of politics and the internet in a variety of new contexts, both geographically and institutionally. The subject of e-democracy has morphed over the years from speculative and optimistic accounts of a future heightened direct citizen involvement in political decision-making and an increasingly withered state apparatus, to more ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD