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In I Paper Emperors i , Sally Young provides a magisterial account of the interrelations between the corporate interests and political connections of Australia's major newspaper proprietors to the 1940s. All in all, Young concludes that "The daily newspapers were so unusually politically homogeneous" that they had "a major impact upon the nature of political debate" and upon "political elites" (p. 125). [Extracted from the article]

With democratization, the Taiwanese were able to freely express their Taiwanese identity, especially in opposition to efforts to bring Taiwan closer to China. This book derives from a wide-ranging conference on Taiwan at the University of Alberta from which the editors chose papers dealing with democratization and nation building. Ashley Esarey examines relevant events in the creation of the nation from the Japanese colonial period, through authoritarian Kuomintang (KMT) rule, and the democratization process up to the 2018 elections. [Extracted from the article]

While we considered a number of important and impressive books, the award committee's unanimous choice this year is Samara Klar and Yanna Krupnikov's I Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction i . Put simply, Klar and Krupnikov have written the best and most important book on independent voters in the past quarter century. [Extracted from the article]

This new route skipped the constituency and provincial collation centres by sending the 10,985-polling station election returns from the 1985 ward collation centres straight to the ZEC national command centre. With specific reference to the 2018 Presidential election, apart from ZEC, Moyo identified six other components of the rigging system. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics," by Roger Cohen, is presented.

William G. Mayer is Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University, and the author of a number of well received books on American elections and parties. He turns to two books that Rove and then Bush, at Rove's urging, read: Marvin Olavsky's I The Tragedy of American Compassion i and Myron Magnet's I The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass i . In 1999 Rove managed to persuade the public that then-Governor Bush's Texas education reforms were, as the Bush campaign liked to put it, "The Texas Miracle.". [Extracted from the article]

Ireland is the first country in the world to apply a legislative gender quota under an STV electoral system. Since 2016, the quota has required parties to ensure that at least thirty percent of their candidates running in the general election are women. Due to the nature of the electoral system, namely that it is candidate-centred, the impact of the quota has the potential to be limited if voter bias is present among the electorate. While the initial gains from the quota's first election in 2016 were maintained at the 2020 general election, with one more woman elected to Dáil Éireann, the headline figures may be misleading. In this earthquake election, a significant number of high-profile women from across the political spectrum lost their seats, while male colleagues retained theirs, suggesting that female candidates may have been evaluated differently from their male counterparts. Using self-reported voter attitudes from the 2020 Irish National Election Study, we investigate whether there is an underlying bias against women amongst voters. We test whether such a bias has an impact on the share of women running and the share of women winning, as well as individual women's level of electoral success. Overall, we find no evidence that voter bias affected outcomes for women at the 2020 Irish general election. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to Transparency International, in 2016, Ecuador was ranked the 120th least corrupt country in the world out of 176 countries. Likewise, Felipe Burbano de Lara's chapter investigates Correa's deliberate strategy of state building by traveling to distant parts of the country and physically representing the state in the previously forgotten periphery. Carlos de la Torre, similarly, declares that "Correa wasted resources, used state funds to keep winning elections, and relied on corruption to cement the loyalty of his clique" (108). [Extracted from the article]

I Good Reasons to Run i will be of tremendous interest and value to anyone wishing to better understand women's political candidacy and the challenges and opportunities they will encounter in future election cycles. Chapter 2, by Rachel Bernhard and colleagues, surveys alumnae from Emerge America's candidate training programs and finds that program participants who are married white women with older children and not the family's primary income earner are most likely to run for office. [Extracted from the article]

From Brazil, a refreshing look at the way democratic elections work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is part of a Book Forum review of Shandana Khan Mohmand's book Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters (2019). The Book Forum consists of individual commentaries on this text by three interested scholars, followed by a response by the author. The article may be read individually or alongside the other contributions to the Forum, which together constitute a comprehensive discussion of the themes and arguments in the book. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Historians of New York politics are not likely to find much new in his account; the literature about Tammany, including its members' business dealings, was already wide and deep, as is that on the state Republican Party. Progressive-Era political scientists and historians wrote the first draft of the history of the period's politics. Broxmeyer does not minimize self-dealing, patronage, office seeking, and other sordid features that were the sum of Gilded Age politics in the Progressive caricature. [Extracted from the article]

Advising Nixon: The White House Memos of Patrick J. Buchanan. Writing on November 10, 1972 (shortly after Election Day), Buchanan was optimistic: Nixon was the "Republican FDR", potentially building a new political regime, or "dynasty" in Buchanan's pre-Skowronek lexicon (291). Not only was Buchanan a talented wordsmith for the president, but he was also a prolific memo writer to him and other key aides, such as White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, on a variety of political and policy topics. [Extracted from the article]