In How to Rig an Election, Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas show how elections enable authoritarian leaders to hold on to power, revealing the reasons behind this

Those who do not have their heads buried too deeply in partisan sands will know that there is something awry with the American form of electoral democracy. Flor

For decades, journalists have called the winners of U.S. presidential elections—often in error—well before the closing of the polls. In Votes That Count and

Think that Richard Nixon lost the 1960 presidential election because he sweated on TV? Or that John Kerry was “swiftboated” out of the presidency in 2004? T

In presidential elections, do voters cast their ballots for the candidates whose platform and positions best match their own? Or is the race for president of th