Political parties and party platforms

This timely book updates, and takes stock of, Lipset and Rokkan's classic work Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives, an influential work since its publication in 1967.

The idea of 'New India' has acquired a new currency.

A powerful case for a new Southern strategy for the Democrats, from an award-winning reporter and native SouthernerIn 2000 and 2004, the Democratic Party decided not to challenge George W.

The study of political discussion has been broken into sub-categories including deliberative democracy, discursive studies, dynamics of interpersonal communication, and discussion network analyses, with substantial numbers of books and articles covering each.

Membership of political parties is diverse.

This book explains the development of the Conservative Party's immigration policy during the seven decades since 1945, up to today.

Crisis of Conservatism?

This book provides a range of essays on aspects of the British Conservative Party from the late 19th century to the present day.

What historical factors transformed American politics into the institution we know today?

The Chinese Communist Party and China's Capitalist Revolution examines issues of political change and development in China.

This comprehensive collection draws upon and reengages with a long history of Marxian-anchored thought to analyze the potential for social transformation through a reinvigorated radical Left, all within the context of the ascendance of an increasingly ethnonationalist, patriarchal, and authoritarian far Right worldwide.

In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the "e;Dixiecrats,"e; and chose Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate.

The remarkable advance of "e;Corbynism"e; did not emerge from nowhere.

This collection examines the continuities and changes that have set the Dominican political system apart from its Latin American counterparts over the last couple of decades.

Politicians are polarized.

Nationale Sammlung – das Schlagwort stand zu Beginn der Bundesrepublik für das politische Ziel, einen dritten Block rechts von CDU/CSU und SPD zu schaffen.

Explore the key milestones in the field of politics broken down clearly and simply with The Politics Book.

In this comprehensive analysis, political scholar Matthew N.

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.

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.

The Labour Party, Housing and Urban Transformation explores how the urban transformation of Britain between 1945 and 1970 was understood politically by the Labour Party.

The constitution that establishes the institutional framework for American national government makes no mention of political parties.

This is the definitive account of the rise, fall and future prospects of the Liberal Democrats, the party that threatened to break the mould of British politics but suffered electoral calamity after entering government with the Conservatives.

This book addresses the central question of how right-wing women navigate the cross-pressures between gender identity and political ideology.

Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats: Unfinished Business now available in paperback, offers new research on familiar themes involving loyalties of politics, faith and locality.

This volume discusses the formation of government cabinets within twenty European democracies, providing the institutional background to the selection and de-selection of ministers.

This book provides state of the art research by leading experts on the movement parties of the radical right.

This comprehensive and comparative book makes clear what party families are and, in doing so, helps categorise and make sense of parties in different countries.

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

Pradeep Chhibber and Ken Kollman rely on historical data spanning back to the eighteenth century from Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States to revise our understanding of why a country's party system consists of national or regional parties.

The clue to our future lies in our past and Toye has winkled it out with elegant and devastating precision.

On 20 June 1998 Peter Temple-Morris, Conservative MP for Leominster, crossed the floor to join his rivals on the Labour party benches.

Patricia Sorbara has been a political operative for more than forty yearsa mainstay in the background of both federal and provincial politics in Ontario, dedicating her career to the Liberal 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.

Here, Michael F.

In an age when men have come to believe that their destinies can be determined by human actions rather than by fate, the question looms large of what a leader can do to fulfill the aspirations of those looking for guidance.

What impact has EU membership had on party politics in Central and Eastern Europe?

This book examines the decade in office of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its efforts to transform the Turkish republic toward a more Islamist-oriented system.

Explains cross-national differences in the political and partisan representation of low-income voters, focusing attention on the electoral geography of income.

David J.

No figure in the Labour movement has attracted such extremes of emotion as has James Ramsay MacDonald.

Despite being described as the most successful political party in any western democracy, the Liberal Party of Canada experienced its worst electoral defeat in 2011.

The past decade saw the rise of the British National Party, the country's most successful ever far-right political movement, and the emergence of the anti-Islamic English Defence League.

The Rise of the Pelhams (1957) looks at the important period between the fall of Walpole and the appointment of Henry Pelham as First Lord of the Treasury, and the ensuing Pelhamite administration - its establishment, peak and fall and its aftermath.

James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942) stands as one of the half-dozen most important national political figures in twentieth-century Canadian history.

The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997-2009.

This comprehensive volume brings together a diverse set of scholars to analyse candidate nomination, intra-party democracy, and election violence in Africa.

The Scottish independence question is one of the pivotal questions facing British politics and the future of the United Kingdom.

This book provides a penetrating new study of the Labour Party's thinking on international relations, which probes the past, present and future of the party's approach to the international stage.