Political parties and party platforms

The Conservatives are back - but how did they do it and what took them so long?

The 2008 presidential election, perhaps more so than the typical quadrennial race, will undoubtedly spawn an abundance of scholarly inquiry.

Following India's general election in May 2009, this book undertakes a critical evaluation of the performance of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).

This book generates a wealth of new empirical information about Latin American party systems and contributes richly to major theoretical debates about party systems and democracy.

Ideologically divided and disorganized in 1960, the conservative wing of the Republican Party appeared to many to be virtually obsolete.

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.

Wenn politische Narrative der Angst an Einfluss gewinnen, wenn Zukunftsvisionen nicht mehr für alle ausgemalt werden und Meinungsbildung zunehmend innerhalb von Blasen stattfindet, ist es höchste Zeit für neue Bündnisse!

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

From Iraq to the economy, leading academics and journalists assess Tony Blair''s second term.

It has been argued that political parties are weakening.

Written in preeminent legislative studies scholar Richard Fenno's "e;homespun"e; story-telling style, Congressional Travels argues that authenticity -- knowing what a representative is like in his/her district and looking beyond mere roll-call voting -- contributes significantly to understanding the full body of work done by our members of Congress.

Native scholars explore the relationship between political parties and democracy in regions around the world.

This book examines how the proximity to government and different institutional roles-being in opposition, government or supporting a minority government-influence European radical right-wing populist (RRWP) parties' discourse.

Religion, violence, and ethnicity are all intertwined in the history of Pakistan.

Social media and social networking services are integrated into the American political process and have profoundly influenced political communication and participation.

This book corrects an imbalance in Canadian political literature through offering a conservative account of Canadian political thought.

Arshad examines the phenomenon of 'democratic backsliding' in post-2011 Egypt.

The parliamentary elections of 2015-16 in Greece, Spain and Portugal had extraordinary consequences, bringing repeat elections, unprecedented processes of government formation and uncharted government outcomes.

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

Contemporary American politics is highly polarized, and it is increasingly clear that this polarization exists at both the elite and mass levels.

A conceptually framed narrative of how the construction of a people as Dravidian-Tamil was achieved by the DMK between 1949-1967.

More than many areas of American politics research, studies of minor party competition and success are often overly driven by normative concerns that do not hold up to empirical scrutiny.

A Brookings Institution Press and the Hoover Institution publicationAmerica's polarized politics are largely disconnected from mainstream public preferences.

First published in 1982, this book explores how Khrushchev and Brezhnev manipulated their policies and personal images as they attempted to consolidate their authority as leader.

Wie gewinnt man die Herzen der Wähler?

Since its development shaped by the turmoil of the World Wars and suspicion of new technologies such as film and radio, political communication has become a hybrid field largely devoted to connecting the dots among political rhetoric, politicians and leaders, voters' opinions, and media exposure to better understand how any one aspect can affect the others.

This book examines radical right parties in Europe and how electoral systems impact their success.

This book focuses on the intricacies of elections within Russian ethnic republics and political loyalty in these regions.

This book, first published in 1980, provides both a broad review and detailed analysis of the major issues that had been affecting the changing relations between Moscow and the other European Communist parties.

Roughly sixty-five years ago, a group of political scientists operating as the "e;Committee on Political Parties"e; of the American Political Association thought long and hard about whether the American parties were adequately serving their democracy, and made specific recommendations for improvements.

Wer die Ideologie eines Gegners besser kennt als der Gegner selbst, wird für Debatten mit ihm gerüstet sein.

Political analyst Mark Smith offers the most original and compelling explanation yet of why America has swung to the right in recent decades.

A striking and significant phenomenon of the Canadian political scene immediately following World War I was the rise and fall of a third party.

Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis for Jewish collective identity in the twentieth century.

Democrats and Republicans have become geographically divided along regional lines, which has furthered the ideological polarization of American politics.

At the height of the Cold War, dozens of radical and progressive writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and teachers cooperated to create and disseminate children's books that challenged the status quo.

This book, first published in 1975, examines the events of the French Second Republic, the themes of protest and repression in particular.

There's no question that Americans are bitterly divided by politics.

Voting in Old and New Democracies examines voting behavior and its determinants based on 26 surveys from 18 countries on five continents between 1992 and 2008.

This volume provides an in-depth examination of six political campaigns waged during competitive 1998 races for the U.

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.

First published in 1995, the aim of this book is to review various aspects of the process of democratic transition in Hungary over the period of its first post-communist, freely elected parliament between 1990 and 1994.

Argues that voters rely on partisan cues because party brand names provide credible information about how politicians are likely to act in 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.

Globalization, European integration, and social change have devaluated traditional social democratic policy instruments.

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

This book explores the political trajectories of various countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, tracing the shifts in party systems and regime transitions along a model-like trajectory that spans from revolutionism to authoritarianism and electoral Islamism.

Understanding the greatest catastrophic failure of American Government.