Politics of Recall Elections

Yanina Welp is Associate Researcher in the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland. Her main areas of study are the introduction and practices of mechanisms of direct and participatory democracy, and digital media and politics. She has published extensively on these topics in academic journals such as International Political Science Review, Democratization and Revista Española de Ciencia Política and books.Laurence Whitehead is Senior Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK, and editor of the Oxford Studies in Democratisation series. His publications include the books Democratisation: Theory and Experience (2002), and Let the People Rule? Direct Democracy in the Twenty-First Century (with Y. Welp, 2017), as well as the article "Recall of Elected Officeholders: The Growing Incidence of a Venerable, but Overlooked, DemocraticInstitution" published in Democratization (October 2018).

• Chapter 1: The Politics of Recall Elections (Yanina Welp, Laurence Whitehead).- Chapter 2: Recall: Democratic Advance, Safety Valve, or Risky Adventure? (Yanina Welp, Laurence Whitehead).- Chapter 3: The Political Theory of the Recall. A Study in the History of the Ideas (Matt Qvortrup).- Chapter 4: The debate on the recall in France: imperative mandate or political irresponsibility under the Fifth Republic? (Clara Egger, Raul Magni-Berton).- Chapter 5: Recall Elections in the US: Its Long Past and Uncertain Future (Joshua Spivak).- Chapter 6: Recall in Japan as a Measure of Vertical Accountability (Mitsuhiko Okamoto, Uwe Serdült).- Chapter 7: Explaining institutional change towards recall in Germany (Brigitte Geißel, Stefan Jung).- Chapter 8: Recall Referendums in Central and Eastern Europe: From Citizen Accountability to Partisan Account Settling (Sergiu Mișcoiu).- Chapter 9: The recall revival and its mixed implications for  democracy: Evidence from Latin America (Yanina Welp,Laurence Whitehead).- Chapter 10: Reselection and Deselection in the Political Party (Jonathan White, Lea Ypi).- Chapter 11: Narratives of Executive Downfall: Recall, Impeachment, or Coup? (Aníbal Pérez-Liñán).- Chapter 12: On Reconciling Recall with Representation (Laurence Whitehead).