Elections in Global History
Date Published: November 9, 2023
The Elections in Global History reading list features scholarship on historical elections. Topics include the study of past election events, voting inequity, election quotas, media politics, protests during election times, and more.
The introduction to each book is free, and books may be purchased at dukeupress.edu.
BOOK
Hailing the State: Indian Democracy between Elections
Lisa Mitchell
2023
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ignorance, Irrationality, Elections, and Sortition: Part 1
Terrill G. Bouricius
Common Knowledge 28:2, 2022
JOURNAL ARTICLE
On Insurrections
Lindsey Claire Smith
English Language Notes 61:1, 2023
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Preemptive Impunity: The Constituent Power of Trump's Make America Great Again Movement
Donald E. Pease
boundary 2 50:1, 2023
JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Fragility of Liberal Democracy: A Schmittian Response to the Constitutional Crisis in South Korea (1948–79)
Kyung Min Yi
Journal of Asian Studies 81:2, 2022
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Media Poll-Itics in Canadian Elections: A Report on Accelerated Public Opinion
Bob Hanke
Cultural Politics 3:1, 2007
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Making India's Democracy: Rewriting the Bureaucratic Colonial Imagination in the Preparation of the First Elections
Ornit Shani
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 36:1, 2016
JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Political Economy of the Colombian Presidential Election of 1897
Charles W. Bergquist
Hispanic American Historical Review 56:1, 1976
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Indigenous Citizenship between Borderlands and Enclaves: Elections in Talamanca, Costa Rica, 1880–1913
Alejandra Boza Villarreal
Hispanic American Historical Review 96:4, 2016
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nurturing Hope, Deepening Democracy, and Combating Inequalities in Brazil: Lula, the Workers' Party, and Dilma Rousseff's 2010 Election as President
John French and Alexandre Fortes
Labor 9:1, 2012
BOOK CHAPTER
Blue Election, Election Blues 1987
Stuart Hall
2017
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Right to Vote or Right to Revolt? Arendt and the British Suffrage Militancy
Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
differences 19:3, 2008
JOURNAL ARTICLE
“A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote”: Urban Protest and Electoral Politics in Venezuela, 1978–1983
Alejandro Velasco
Hispanic American Historical Review 90:4, 2010
BOOK
Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma
Karlyn Forner
2017
JOURNAL ARTICLE
What's Going On? What Is to Be Done?
Gerald Horne
South Atlantic Quarterly 110:1, 2011
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Upton Sinclair's 1934 EPIC Campaign: Anatomy of a Political Movement
James N. Gregory
Labor 12:4, 2015
JOURNAL ARTICLE
“The Quota Encouraged Me to Run”: Evaluating Jordan’s Municipal Quota for Women
Stefanie Nanes
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11:3, 2015
JOURNAL ARTICLE
“Ma volonté est celle du peuple”: Voting in the Plebiscite and Parliamentary Elections during Napoléon's Hundred Days, April–May 1815
Malcolm Crook
French Historical Studies 32:4, 2009
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Boycotting the Politics Factory: Labor Radicalism and the New York City Mayoral Election of 1884
David Scobey
Radical History Review 28-30, 1984
JOURNAL ARTICLE
“Creatures of Mimic and Imitation”: The Liberty Tree, Black Elections, and the Politicization of African Ceremonial Space in Revolutionary Newport, Rhode Island
Edward E. Andrews
Radical History Review 99, 2007
