Political parties and party platforms

Olaf Cramme is Director of Policy Network and a Visiting Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics.

The 2000 U.

Trump, Wilders, Salvini, Le Pen - during the last decades, radical right-wing leaders and their parties have become important political forces in most western democracies.

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.

An analysis of the impact of inequalities in wealth in British politics, looking at party funding, lobbying and the media.

Zehn Jahre AfD – aber unser Problem mit dem Nationalismus geht weit darüber hinaus.

Nigeria's democratisation efforts since attaining political independence from Britain have been tumultuous and have spanned over three successive republics.

John Gerassi went to North Vietnam as a member of the first investigating team for the International War Crimes Tribunal set up by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.

This revised edition features a new afterword, updated through the 2016 election.

In the election to the House of Representatives in 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) almost tripled the number of its lower house members by winning 308 seats.

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

Using novel data, the book develops a new theory on how European far-right parties establish roots in local societies.

This book uses roll call data to explore legislative politics in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay.

Twitter already has become an important electoral communication tool between candidates, parties and their specific constituencies.

The relationship between criminal syndicates and politicians has a long history, including episodes even from the earliest years of America's colonies.

To celebrate Singapore's fiftieth anniversary for its independence from Malaysia in 2015, 35 students, academics and activists came together to discuss and write about pioneering Singaporean human rights activists and their under-reported stories in Singapore.

Wales is often considered to be one of the most anti-Conservative parts of Britain, with the party unable to connect with voters.

Illustrated most dramatically by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent 'war on terror', violence represents a challenge to democratic politics and to the establishment of liberal-democratic regimes.

While there has been much focus in recent times on the rise of right-wing populism in Europe, there has been surprisingly little material on the phenomenon of left-wing populism.

This provocative book addresses the ideological and political crisis of the Western left, comparing it with the problems facing leftist politics in Russia and other countries.

This is the first book-length account of populism in the Visegrad Four (V4) countries - Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia - for the first 30 years of multi-party competition since the transformative events of 1989-91 in Central and Eastern Europe.

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 critiques a modern U.

Electing a Mega-Mayor represents the first-ever comprehensive, survey-based examination of a Canadian mayoral race and provides a unique, detailed account of the 2014 mayoral election in Toronto.

This volume is primarily concerned with equality as a basic component of the democratic character of representation.

The 2020 presidential selection process is already underway.

American Government: Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure highlights the dangerous tension between our constitutional principles and institutions and the populist heat that sometimes roils our national politics, including at the current political moment.

Unter schwierigen Umständen wurde nach dem Ende der Monarchie 1918 die Republik in Österreich gegründet.

Originally published in 1985, New Nationalisms in the Developed West is a collection of interdisciplinary and insightful essays on modern nationalist movements.

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.

Presidential nominations in the United States can sometimes seem like a media circus, over-hyped and overly speculative.

Essentials of UK Politics and Government is the go-to textbook for all A-level Politics students studying the Edexcel specification.

This volume explores the many ways in which politics shapes the allegedly nonpartisan judicial system in America, ranging from how judges are selected to the bench to how they rule when they get there.

This book, first published in 1977, traces the origins of the left-wing Portuguese army rebellion of 1974 that overthrew the 50-year-old authoritarian regime of Prime Ministers Salazar and Caetano to the traditional political independence of the armed forces, their increasingly strained relations with the regime, and finally to the colonial wars which brought professional discontent to boiling point.

Dies ist die sechste überarbeitete und aktualisierte Auflage der bekannten, zuerst 1977 erschienenen Kleinen Geschichte des SDS.

Political Marketing in the United States explores how politicians and parties utilize marketing concepts and tools, providing an up-to-date and broad overview of how marketing permeates U.

This book examines how the Chinese Communist Party retains control over China''s rulers through their education and training.

Die deutsche Sozialdemokratie befindet sich nach der schweren Niederlage bei der Bundestagswahl 2017 in einer schwierigen Phase.

This comprehensive edited volume conceptually develops the notion of 'de-Europeanisation' as an important development in the literature on Europeanisation, and applies it specifically to the case of Turkey.

'The Britain at the Polls series always asks-and answers, often with new insights-the key questions about British general elections.

Two trends are dramatically altering the American political landscape: growing immigration and the rising prominence of independent and nonpartisan voters.

Special rules enable the Senate to act despite the filibuster.

This analysis of the contours and social bases of mass voting behavior in the United States over the course of the third electoral era, from 1853 to 1892, provides a deep and rich understanding of the ways in which ethnoreligious values shaped party combat in the late nineteenth century.

Black Cosmopolitans examines the lives and thought of three extraordinary black men-Jacobus Capitein, Jean-Baptiste Belley, and John Marrant-who traveled extensively throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

This analysis reveals how issue ownership, performance and competence shape public opinion about parties, government support and elections, over time and cross-nationally.