Cambridge University Press

This book addresses the questions: how do voters use their own issue positions and those of candidates to decide how to vote? Does a voter tend to choose the candidate who most closely shares the views of the voter or rather a candidate who holds more extreme views due to the fact that the voters di..

For a number of years, voters and academic observers have been dissatisfied with a number of elements of American campaigns. Contemporary races are seen as too negative, too superficial, and too unfair or misleading. Based on these complaints, a variety of reform organizations have targeted millions..

This book examines how, from the late 1870s, multinational enterprises and international finance influenced the spread of electrification around the world. Although by 1978 they had been replaced by electrical utility providers, more recently they have had a revival. The result is a truly global acc..

Lawson's Politica is a systematic treatise on politics in church and state. This new modern edition is based on, and corrects, the first printed editions of 1660 and 1689 and contains an extensive introduction and notes designed to make this significant work accessible to both students and specialis..

This ground-breaking 2005 exploration of multinational corporations differs from other books on the subject by offering the reader a totally global perspective of multinationals. The book paints a compelling and coherent picture of the way these businesses affect almost all areas of our existence...

This book presents a simple geometric model of voting as a tool to analyze parliamentary roll call data. Each legislator is represented by one point and each roll call is represented by two points that correspond to the policy consequences of voting Yea or Nay. On every roll call each legislator vot..

In this 2002 textbook, Andrea Colli gives a historical and comparative perspective on family business, examining through time the different relationships within family businesses and among family enterprises, inside different political and institutional contexts. He compares the performance of famil..