Act of Voting

Johan A. Elkink is a lecturer at University College Dublin.He works on the international diffusion of democracy, institutionalisation and personalisation of the Russian regime, voting behaviour in referendums, and the estimation of spatial econometric models. David M. Farrell is Professor of Politics at University College Dublin. He is a leading expert in the study of parties and elections.

• The Act of Voting: Identities, Institutions and Locale 2. European Identities in Comparative Perspective 3. Does Ulster Still Say ‘No’? Public Opinion and the Future of Northern Ireland 4. Transnational Citizenship and Access to Electoral Rights: Defining the Demos in European States 5. Electoral Processes and Presidential Elections in ‘Presidential Republics’ 6. EU Treaty Referendums in Ireland and Denmark: A Comparative Analysis of Different Conceptions of Sovereignty and their Democratic Implications 7. Confronting Europe: the Irish Referendums on Lisbon 8. Locality in Irish Voter Preferences 9. Candidates, Parties and Constituency Relations: A Study in Irish Clientelism 10. Exploring the Non-Alignment of Party and Candidate Assessments in Ireland: Do Voters Really Follow Candidates? 11. Intention to Vote, Reported Vote, and Validated Vote 12. Political Inequality in Second Order Elections: Resources, Campaign Mobilization and Voter Turnout 13. Religion, Electoral Participation and Party Support in Northern Ireland 14. Identity Formation and Political Generations: Age, Cohort, and Period Effects in Irish Elections 15. The Act of Voting in Context