Political parties and party platforms

Wie wurden Armutsthematiken in den letzten 30 Jahren durch das Parteiensystem Deutschlands repräsentiert?

What draws a person to the political life?

This book focuses on Prime Ministers (PMs) in the post-communist democracies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

Morality at the Ballot examines the ability of direct democracy (the process of deciding policy through the ballot) to increase turnout.

Politicians are polarized.

What kind of Europe do social democratic parties prefer?

The second edition of this popular textbook provides a systematic and comprehensive introduction to UK party politics, combining chapters on each of the main parties (Conservative, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party) with an assessment of post-devolution Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The sensational true story of Kenyan missionary John Kaiser: A murdered priest.

The use of wedge issues such as abortion, gay marriage, and immigration has become standard political strategy in contemporary presidential campaigns.

This thought-provoking book offers a new global approach to understand how four social class structures have rocked our political systems, to the extent that no politician or political party can exist today without claiming to be speaking on their behalf, and no politician can hope to win an electoral majority without building a coalition among these classes.

Across the West, the explosion of social movement activity since the late 1960s has constituted a participatory revolution that has posed profound challenges for formal political parties.

One of the most unexpected outcomes of the Soviet bloc's transition out of communism has been the divergent but important paths followed by once ruling communist parties.

"La financiación de los partidos políticos se ha convertido desde al menos los años setenta en una cuestión central en la política contemporánea.

In 'Strahlende Zukunft' betreten wir eine alternative Chronik der Energieumwälzung, die an den Ereignissen von Fukushima anknüpft und nicht in der Weisheit des Nachhineins erzählt, sondern in der Erzählung dessen, was hätte sein können.

Political Management lays out the core tools to manage government, campaigns and parties.

Anti-fascism has long been one of the most active and dynamic areas of radical protest and direct action.

This book takes a closer look at the role and meaning of political opposition for the development of democracy across sub-Saharan Africa.

This volume focuses on the issue of change in democratic politics in terms of experimental or actual innovations introduced either within political parties or outside the party system, involving citizen participation and mobilization.

This text examines the interaction and contention between party leaders and MPs to study the underlying structure of party unity.

Between 1852 and 1886 British politics moved from a system of 'parliamentary government' towards a two party system.

Confronted with two historically unpopular presidential candidates, the American electorate in 2016 delivered a shock to the political system.

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.

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This monograph recasts the modernisation of the Labour Party and sheds new light on Labour's years in the wilderness between 1979 and 1997.

Amidst 'Brexit', a divided and out of power Labour Party, and the wider international rise of populism, contemporary British social democracy appears in a state of crisis.

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.

A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "e;long Civil Rights movement,"e; Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality.

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This book analyses the determinants behind the openings in party leader selection rules (leaders' selectorate) in 10 Western European countries and more than 55 parties between the mid-1980s and the mid-2010s.

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

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the British Labour Party was broadly supportive of Irish home rule.

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

Investigates the creation of the first truly nationalized party organizations in the United States in the late nineteenth century.

Are we seeing the presidentialization of politics in Japan?

This book examines why people vote in the newly consolidated democracies of Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Central and Eastern European countries.

This volume brings together a number of international scholars to offer an original analysis of far-right movements and politics, challenging the existing literature through a very different methodological and theoretical perspective.

Good Democratic Leadership: On Prudence and Judgment in Modern Democracies explores whether, in the current atmosphere of international economic and political tension, and more generally, democracies foster and support effective political judgment and good leadership.

The 2006 elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council, the first in which both Fatah and Hamas fielded candidates, resulted in a resounding victory for Hamas.

A timely analysis of the power and limits of political parties-and the lessons of the Civil War and the New Deal in the Age of Trump.

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.

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Changing Borders in Europe focuses on the territorial dimension of the European Union.

This is a path-breaking study by leading scholars of comparative politics examining the internal transformations of dominant parties in both authoritarian and democratic settings.

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.

Democracy and political parties go hand in hand.

Situated in the heart of London's Holland Park are the remains of Holland House the site of what was once England's most celebrated political salon.

This comprehensive volume is a three-part study of whether the Chinese political system has maintained a significant degree of regime legitimacy in the context of rising domestic discontent, in particular the popular protests against socio-economic inequality and environment degradation.