The Politics of Recall Elections

Yanina Welp is Associate Researcher in the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland. Her main areas of study are the introduction and practices of mechanisms of direct and participatory democracy, and digital media and politics. She has published extensively on these topics in academic journals such as International Political Science Review, Democratization and Revista Espanola de Ciencia Politica and books. Laurence Whitehead is Senior Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK, and editor of the Oxford Studies in Democratisation series. His publications include the books Democratisation: Theory and Experience (2002), and Let the People Rule? Direct Democracy in the Twenty-First Century (with Y. Welp, 2017), as well as the article "Recall of Elected Officeholders: The Growing Incidence of a Venerable, but Overlooked, Democratic Institution" published in Democratization (October 2018).

Chapter 1: The Politics of Recall ElectionsYanina Welp and Laurence Whitehead
Chapter 2: Recall: Democratic Advance, Safety Valve, or Risky Adventure?Yanina Welp and Laurence Whitehead
Chapter 3: The Political Theory of the Recall. A Study in the History of the IdeasMatt Qvortrup
Chapter 4: The debate on the recall in France: imperative mandate or political irresponsibility under the Fifth Republic?Clara Egger and Raul Magni-Berton
Chapter 5: Recall Elections in the US: Its Long Past and Uncertain FutureJoshua Spivak
Chapter 6: Recall in Japan as a Measure of Vertical AccountabilityMitsuhiko Okamoto and Uwe Serdült
Chapter 7: Explaining institutional change towards recall in GermanyBrigitte Geißel and Stefan Jung
Chapter 8: Recall Referendums in Central and Eastern Europe: From Citizen Accountability to Partisan Account SettlingSergiu Mi coiu
Chapter 9: The recall revival and its mixed implications for  democracy: Evidence from Latin AmericaYanina Welp and Laurence Whitehead
Chapter 10: Reselection and Deselection in the Political PartyJonathan White and Lea YpiChapter 11: Narratives of Executive Downfall: Recall, Impeachment, or Coup?Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
Chapter 12: On Reconciling Recall with RepresentationLaurence Whitehead