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Elections and Democratization in Ukraine analyses the role of
competitive elections in the Ukraine's crucial democratic
transition period of 1989 to 1998, focusing on how Ukrainian voters
make vote choices and which electoral cleavages are most important.
Contrary to those who claim that the Soviet Union left in its wake
an atomized society with weak social divisions, this study argues
that the Ukrainian electorate has from the advent of competitive
elections exhibited relatively stable voting behaviour.
Public perceptions of political ethics are at the heart of current
political debate. Drawing on original data, this book is the first
general account of popular understandings of political ethics in
contemporary British politics. It offers new insights into how
citizens understand political ethics and integrity and how they
form judgments of their leaders. By locating these insights against
the backdrop of contemporary British political ethics, the book
shows how current institutional preoccupations with standards of
conduct all too often miss the mark. While the use of official
resources is the primary focus of much regulation, politicians'
consistency, frankness and sincerity, which citizens tend to see in
terms of right and wrong, are treated as 'normal politics'. The
authors suggest that new approaches may need to be adopted if
public confidence in politicians' integrity is to be restored.
Elections and Democratization in Ukraine analyses the role of
competitive elections in the Ukraine's crucial democratic
transition period of 1989 to 1998, focusing on how Ukrainian voters
make vote choices and which electoral cleavages are most important.
Contrary to those who claim that the Soviet Union left in its wake
an atomized society with weak social divisions, this study argues
that the Ukrainian electorate has from the advent of competitive
elections exhibited relatively stable voting behaviour.
A comprehensive look at how violence has been used to manipulate
competitive electoral processes around the world since World War II
Throughout their history, political elections have been threatened
by conflict, and the use of force has in the past several decades
been an integral part of electoral processes in a significant
number of contemporary states. However, the study of elections has
yet to produce a comprehensive account of electoral violence.
Drawing on cross-national data sets together with fourteen detailed
case studies from around the world, Electoral Violence, Corruption,
and Political Order offers a global comparative analysis of violent
electoral practices since the Second World War. Sarah Birch shows
that the way power is structured in society largely explains why
elections are at risk of violence in some contexts but not in
others. Countries with high levels of corruption and weak
democratic institutions are especially vulnerable to disruptions of
electoral peace. She examines how corrupt actors use violence to
back up other forms of electoral manipulation, including vote
buying and ballot stuffing. In addition to investigating why
electoral violence takes place, Birch considers what can be done to
prevent it in the future, arguing that electoral authority and the
quality of electoral governance are more important than the formal
design of electoral institutions. Delving into a deeply influential
aspect of political malpractice, Electoral Violence, Corruption,
and Political Order explores the circumstances in which individuals
choose to employ violence as an electoral strategy.
Elections ought in theory to go a long way toward making democracy
'work', but in many contexts, they fail to embody democratic ideals
because they are affected by electoral manipulation and misconduct.
This book undertakes an analytic and explanatory investigation of
electoral malpractice, which is understood as taking three
principal forms: manipulation of the rules governing elections,
manipulation of vote preference formation and expression, and
manipulation of the voting process.
Electoral Malpractice--which is comparative in nature--starts out
by providing a conceptual definition and typology of electoral
malpractice, before considering evidence for the causes of this
phenomenon. The principal argument of the book is that factors
affecting the costs of electoral malpractice are crucial in
determining whether leaders will, in any given context, seek to rig
elections. Among the most important factors of this sort are the
linkages between elites and citizens, and in particular the balance
between relations of the civil-society and clientelist types. These
linkages play an important role in determining how much legitimacy
leaders will lose by engaging in electoral manipulation as well as
the likely consequences of legitimacy loss.
The study also shows how electoral malpractice might be reduced by
means of a variety of strategies designed to raise the cost of
electoral manipulation by increasing the ability of civil society
and international actors to monitor and denounce it.
Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, and
researchers of political science that deals with contemporary
government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are
characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong
methodological rigour. The series is published in association with
the European Consortium for Political Research. For more
information visit: www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr. The Comparative Politics
Series is edited by Professor David M. Farrell, School of Politics
and International Relations, University College Dublin, Kenneth
Carty, Professor of Political Science, University of British
Columbia, and Professor Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Institute of Political
Science, Philipps University, Marburg.
A comprehensive look at how violence has been used to manipulate
competitive electoral processes around the world since World War II
Throughout their history, political elections have been threatened
by conflict, and the use of force has in the past several decades
been an integral part of electoral processes in a significant
number of contemporary states. However, the study of elections has
yet to produce a comprehensive account of electoral violence.
Drawing on cross-national data sets together with fourteen detailed
case studies from around the world, Electoral Violence, Corruption,
and Political Order offers a global comparative analysis of violent
electoral practices since the Second World War. Sarah Birch shows
that the way power is structured in society largely explains why
elections are at risk of violence in some contexts but not in
others. Countries with high levels of corruption and weak
democratic institutions are especially vulnerable to disruptions of
electoral peace. She examines how corrupt actors use violence to
back up other forms of electoral manipulation, including vote
buying and ballot stuffing. In addition to investigating why
electoral violence takes place, Birch considers what can be done to
prevent it in the future, arguing that electoral authority and the
quality of electoral governance are more important than the formal
design of electoral institutions. Delving into a deeply influential
aspect of political malpractice, Electoral Violence, Corruption,
and Political Order explores the circumstances in which individuals
choose to employ violence as an electoral strategy.
This is the first, full-length study of the fiction of Christine
Brooke-Rose, one of the most innovative and yet critically
neglected of contemporary British writers. Setting her work firmly
in the context of English and French writing as well as literary
and feminist theory, Sarah Birch examines the full range of
Brooke-Rose's fiction: the early realist novels published between
1957-1961; the strongly anti-realist period beginning with Out
(1964), when Brooke-Rose's work was seen to be heavily influenced
by French experimental fiction; and the third phase of her
development which began with Xorandor (1986) and which marks a
questioning return to the traditional techniques of the novel.
Sarah Birch asks why a novelist who has been so highly praised by
critics is nevertheless excluded from the contemporary canon, and
argues that Brooke-Rose's position on the borders of European and
British cultures raises key questions concerning the notion of a
'national' tradition and of literary post-modernism. For Birch,
Brooke-Rose's work is best understood as a poetic and playful
questioning of categories in general, be they discursive or
cultural. Drawing on a detailed knowledge of literary theory, this
is a major study of an important but critically neglected novelist
and a perceptive analysis of the position of contemporary
experimental writers.
Public perceptions of political ethics are at the heart of current
political debate. Drawing on original data, this book is the first
general account of popular understandings of political ethics in
contemporary British politics. It offers new insights into how
citizens understand political ethics and integrity and how they
form judgments of their leaders. By locating these insights against
the backdrop of contemporary British political ethics, the book
shows how current institutional preoccupations with standards of
conduct all too often miss the mark. While the use of official
resources is the primary focus of much regulation, politicians'
consistency, frankness and sincerity, which citizens tend to see in
terms of right and wrong, are treated as 'normal politics'. The
authors suggest that new approaches may need to be adopted if
public confidence in politicians' integrity is to be restored.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Applied Behavior Analysis has proven to be the most effective means
of teaching children diagnosed with autistic-spectrum disorders.
ABA is not, however, "one size fits all." Different teaching
techniques within ABA must be chosen, based upon student need. In
Graduated Applied Behavior Analysis, Dr. Bobby Newman and
colleagues describe an approach that alters teaching methodologies
based on the functioning level of the student. While there are many
schools of thought within ABA, they are all part of the same basic
science. Aspects of that science are outlined. Portions of an
introductory manual and a study describing the effectiveness of an
ABA preschool are included.
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