1st Edition
Democratic Mandates: What Politicians Promise and (Fail to) Deliver
1. Election Pledges and Democratic Representation
Robert Thomson
2. Election Pledges and the Common-Pool Resource Problem in Coalition Governments
Rory Costello and Patrick Dumont
3. Pledge Specificity in France and Germany: The Impact of Institutions
Elisa Deiss-Helbig, Isabelle Guinaudeau, and Theres Matthieß
4. Pledge-Making in the United States, 1948–2024
E.J. Fagan, Petia Kostadinova, Andrea Manning, and Mine Tafolar
5. The Process of Drafting Pre-Electoral Coalition Agreements in Italy: Inter-Party Negotiations Before the Ballot
Giorgia Borgnino and Nicola Palma
6. Tactical Promises in Single-Party Governments in Australia and the United Kingdom
Frank Algra-Maschio
7. Narratives of Election Pledges in Austria
Katrin Praprotnik and Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik
8. Conceptualizing Long-Term Pledges: When Promises Outlast Electoral Terms
Juha Ylisalo
9. Electoral Competition and Election Pledges in Ukraine
Paul Chaisty and Svitlana Chernykh
10. Campaign Promises in Mayoral Elections in Indonesia
Yasmin Lurusati and René Torenvlied
11. Contentious Pledges and Public Reason: The Citizenship Pledge in India
Sania Mariam and Matteo Bonotti
12. A Decade of Australian and Canadian Pledge-Tracking: Comparing Digital Subgenres and Experiences
Lisa Waller, Lisa Birch, Alexandre Fortier-Chouinard, and Sonam Thomas
13. Election Pledge Research in an Era of Populism and Technological Transformation
Robert Thomson and Rory Costello
Biography
Robert Thomson is a Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong, China.
