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Elections in Global History Syllabus

Date Published: 10/28/2020

The Elections in Global History Syllabus 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.

All journal articles in the syllabus are freely available through January 31, 2021. All book introductions are freely available.

Media Poll-Itics in Canadian Elections: A Report on Accelerated Public Opinion

Bob Hanke
Cultural Politics 3:1, 2007

Elections in Global History Syllabus

Media Poll-Itics in Canadian Elections: A Report on Accelerated Public Opinion

Making India's Democracy: Rewriting the Bureaucratic Colonial Imagination in the Preparation of the First Elections

The Political Economy of the Colombian Presidential Election of 1897

Indigenous Citizenship between Borderlands and Enclaves: Elections in Talamanca, Costa Rica, 1880–1913

Nurturing Hope, Deepening Democracy, and Combating Inequalities in Brazil: Lula, the Workers' Party, and Dilma Rousseff's 2010 Election as President

Blue Election, Election Blues 1987

Right to Vote or Right to Revolt? Arendt and the British Suffrage Militancy

“A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote”: Urban Protest and Electoral Politics in Venezuela, 1978–1983

Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma

What's Going On? What Is to Be Done?

Upton Sinclair's 1934 EPIC Campaign: Anatomy of a Political Movement

“The Quota Encouraged Me to Run”: Evaluating Jordan’s Municipal Quota for Women

“Ma volonté est celle du peuple”: Voting in the Plebiscite and Parliamentary Elections during Napoléon's Hundred Days, April–May 1815

Boycotting the Politics Factory: Labor Radicalism and the New York City Mayoral Election of 1884

“Creatures of Mimic and Imitation”: The Liberty Tree, Black Elections, and the Politicization of African Ceremonial Space in Revolutionary Newport, Rhode Island