Political parties and party platforms

The new edition of this successful book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview and account of the changing nature of party politics in Britain today.

How is Donald Trump's presidency likely to affect the reputation and popular standing of the Republican Party?

The Encyclopaedia of Political Parties is a comprehensive record of documents and information pertaining to all the recognised and registered national and regional political parties of India.

As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the priceOver the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams.

Why have conservatives fared so much better than progressives in recent decades, even though polls show no significant move to the right in public opinion?

Understanding how Congressional political parties utilize floor procedure to advance a legislative agenda is fundamental to understanding how Congress operates.

In the mid-1970s, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) almost succeeded in entering the national government; however, by the end of the decade its popularity had dramatically declined.

This Element explains how capitalist dynamics help form coalitions in ideological struggles over state-civil society power relationships.

Rhetoric is the art of speech and persuasion, the study of argument and, in Classical times, an essential component in the education of the citizen.

The volume sheds light on the backsliding process of Turkish democratization from the early 2010's until 2018.

This volume looks at the impact of the landmark 2014 elections and the consequent Assembly elections which have transformed the ideological discourse of India.

This book explores the impact of economic crises and free-market reforms on party systems and political representation in contemporary Latin America.

The ten years since the financial crash have been lean years for progressive politics of all kinds.

Parteienfamilien und ihre Rolle heute Verschwimmen die programmatischen Gegensätze der Parteien immer mehr?

One of the most important and controversial books in modern American politics, The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) explained how Richard Nixon won the White House in 1968-and why the Republicans would go on to dominate presidential politics for the next quarter century.

The Encyclopaedia of Political Parties is a comprehensive record of documents and information pertaining to all the recognised and registered national and regional political parties of India.

This book addresses the meaning of contemporary social democracy and how the centre-left is navigating through its current identity crisis, through a series of cases of social democratic and labour parties across Europe and the Anglosphere.

Nach der Auflösung der Sowjetunion durch die stalinistische Bürokratie sind trotz zahlreicher historischer Detailstudien weder der Charakter der Oktoberrevolution noch die Degeneration und das Scheitern des aus ihr hervorgegangenen Arbeiterstaates einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit klar, obwohl die Existenz der Sowjetunion die gesamte Geschichte des 20.

Ireland's relationship with the European Union has been determined by the behaviour, actions and discourse of political parties.

This book serves as a case study of the Sudanese Communist Party and its impact as a grassroots movement that championed the Sudanese people.

This book provides a systematic overview and in-depth analysis of the effects of rebel group inclusion on democracy following the end of conflict across the globe.

In recent years, political parties and national legislatures in more than one hundred countries have adopted quotas for the selection of female candidates to political office.

The Encyclopaedia of Political Parties is a comprehensive record of documents and information pertaining to all the recognised and registered national and regional political parties of India.

Since 1952, the social bases of the Democratic and Republican parties have undergone radical reshuffling.

In recent years historians have paid substantial attention to the origins of modern political conservatism and the record of the Nixon administration in building a Republican majority in the late twentieth century.

Women and the Liberal Democrats is a timely and original exploration of women's representation and the third party in UK politics.

This book bestows academic light in place of disputed ideological heat emanating primarily from Conservative political polemicists on the role, influence and ideological trajectory of the One Nation Group of Conservative MPs.

The United States has scores of potential issues and ideologies but only two major political parties.

Since the 1880s, the Conservative Party has been an important political force in Britain.

Im Gegensatz zu linken Prognosen und Verheißungen hat sich die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung in den bestehenden Verhältnissen eingerichtet.

This book offers an original interpretation of Britain's relationship with Europe over a 25 year period: 1959-84 and advances the argument that the current problems over EU membership resulted from much earlier political machinations.

Party movements can be described as political organizations that both participate in the electoral process and have social movement qualities.

The Encyclopaedia of Political Parties is a comprehensive record of documents and information pertaining to all the recognised and registered national and regional political parties of India.

Considered the "e;gold standard"e; of political parties texts, this new, eighteenth edition of Party Politics in America moves its comprehensive and authoritative coverage into the age of deepened partisan conflict, expanded presidential power, and global health threats.

This book takes stock of political reform in Ethiopia and the transformation of Ethiopian society since the adoption of multi-party politics and ethnic federalism in 1991.

The "e;secret garden of politics"e;, where some win and others lose their candidate selection bids, and why some aspirant candidates are successful while others fail have been enduring puzzles within political science.

Within the democratisation literature, opposition unity is widely seen as an important requisite to successfully pressure authoritarian rulers into liberalising reforms and in bringing about democratic change.

Intergovernmental agreements are an important instrument in federal systems, establishing new social programs, regulating agricultural practices, and even changing constitutions.

In February 1900 a group of men representing trade unionists, socialists, Fabians and Marxists gathered in London to make another attempt at establishing an organisation capable of getting working-class men elected to Parliament.

An innovative examination of the shift by American political parties toward issue-based differentiationRecent Democratic and Republican party platforms display clear differences on such issues as abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, gun control, and the environment.

In settler societies, some conflicts have roots that are both ethnic and colonial in nature.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of India's electoral democracy and political system.

Elections in America provides a thorough and objective explanation of American elections at the local, state, and national levels.

This book explores the mechanisms and elements of populism to develop new theoretical and methodological approaches.

This book explores the political sources of racially segmented elections and ANC dominance in South Africa.

Numerous scholars have noticed that certain political institutions, including federalism, majoritarian electoral systems, and presidentialism, are linked to lower levels of income redistribution.

The Corporate Rich and the Power Elite in the Twentieth Century demonstrates exactly how the corporate rich developed and implemented the policies and created the government structures that allowed them to dominate the United States.

Die Spaltung mit der britischen Workers Revolutionary Party 1985–1986 leitete eine fruchtbare Phase in der Geschichte des Trotzkismus ein, die durch intensive theoretische Arbeit, die Ausarbeitung einer Weltperspektive auf der Grundlage der Prinzipien der permanenten Revolution und des Internationalismus gekennzeichnet war und die Auflösung der stalinistischen Regime vorwegnahm.