Political parties and party platforms

Originally published in 1968, the theme of this book is the decline of the influence of the House of Commons in general and the rise in particular in the power of the Prime Minister.

Britain's participation in the Iraq war defines one of the most tumultuous periods in its political history.

Dieses Buch ist eine sorgfältig recherchierte und umfassende Tatsachensammlung zum Ukraine-Krieg.

This volume of essays constitutes the first history of Labour and left-wing politics in the decade when Margaret Thatcher reshaped modern Britain.

The Senate of the mid twentieth century, which was venerated by journalists, historians, and senators alike, is today but a distant memory.

Eine andere Politik ist möglich.

Political parties and the party system that underpins South Africa's democracy have the potential to build a cohesive and prosperous nation.

A Brookings Institution Press and Russell Sage Foundation publicationThe extraordinary swings in the scope and content of the policy agenda during the first Clinton administration revealed a fundamental partisan divide over the social role of the federal government.

Conventional wisdom emerging from China and other autocracies claims that single-party legislatures and elections are mutually beneficial for citizens and autocrats.

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.

The Paradox of Parliament provides a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of Parliament in order to explain the paradoxical expectations placed on the institution.

Desde principios del siglo xx resulta frecuente ofrecer una visión idealizada de la división de poderes, supuestamente inspirada en la memoria de un siglo xix que en realidad nunca existió, para luego considerar la incidencia de los partidos como un factor de perturbación y degeneración.

Zimbabwe has moved from a condition of restricted expression to one of many contradictory expressions.

Citizens are political simpletons--that is only a modest exaggeration of a common characterization of voters.

As a result of the financial crisis, opposition parties have had to choose between the need to cooperate with the majority in order to contribute to necessary socio-economic changes, and the opportunity to stress their adversarial position vis-a-vis governments taking radical and unpopular measures.

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

This book examines the impact that nostalgia has had on the Labour Party's political development since 1951.

Develops the concept of the corporatist catch-all party to explain how the CDU has responded to changing demands from women.

Party Politics and Democratization in Indonesia: Golkar in the Post-Suharto Era provides the first in-depth analysis of contemporary Indonesian party politics and the first systematic explanation why Golkar is still the strongest party in Indonesia.

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.

This book examines how social democratic parties have responded to populist radical right parties in the battle for support from working-class voters.

The global financial crisis of 2007-8 did not offer the political and economic opportunities to the left that many thought it would.

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.

Historical Dictionary of the Donald Trump Administration covers the events relevant to Donald Trump and his life.

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.

The closely contested presidential election of 2000, which many analysts felt was decided by voters for the Green Party, cast a spotlight on a structural contradiction of American politics.

This book presents a new and conflict-centered theory of successful party-building, drawing on diverse cases from across Latin America.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art analysis on the fourth wave of far-right politics in Germany by leading scholars in the field.

"e;Cunningham provides a vivid, informative, and frequently insightful chronicle of Texas politics between 1963 and 1980.

In this book, Enrico Padoan proposes an original middle-range theory to explain the emergence and the internal organisation of anti-neoliberal populist parties in Latin America and Southern Europe, and the relationships between these parties and the organised working class.

Won the 2011 Prize for best publication on Conservatives and Conservatism awarded by the specialist group 'Conservatives and Conservatism' of the UK Political Studies Association.

Party systems are crucial elements for the functioning of political systems and representative democracies.

As New Labour's first period of government picks up steam, we find Bernard Donoughue working as a minister at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Food.

LBJ aims to prove that Vice President Johnson played an active role in the assassination of President Kennedy and that he began planning his takeover of the U.

Campaigns on the Cutting Edge evaluates the current trends of today's campaigns and assesses the innovative changes these well-tuned organizations are making on the presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial levels.

The nature of conservative ideology is and will continue to be warmly contested.

Keine andere Partei hat in den vergangenen zwei Jahren für so viel Aufsehen gesorgt wie die Piratenpartei.

In this incisive look at early modern views of party politics, Harvey C.

This book presents the new Precariat – the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives.

Coalition government among different political parties is the way most European democracies are governed.

The 2016 presidential primaries are on the horizon and this new edition of Elaine Kamarcks Primary Politics will be there to help make sense of them.

In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power.

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.

In recent years, political scientists and journalists have taken a great interest in the question of whether the American electorate is "e;sorting"e; into communities based on partisan affiliation.

Dynamics of American Political Parties examines the process of gradual change that inexorably shapes and reshapes American politics.