In countries where democracies are only token and politicians enter public service to build huge personal fortunes, elections become rituals people begin to look forward to. It is the only time they ...

Senator-elect Dianne Feinstein acknowledges cheers from the jubilant crowd at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 1992. “Ready or not, Washington, here we come,” she said, ...

This is the third episode in an occasional series examining significant elections in American history. The most recent installment covered the election of 1992. Democracy and the Constitution are on ...

Kuwait's emir on Sunday set a date of October 1992 for parliamentary elections. The opposition said 16 months was too long to wait, and demanded earlier balloting. In his decree setting the election ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Theories of social-group behavior and issue salience are merged to introduce the idea of group-salient issues. Certain women's issues in the ...