Political parties and party platforms

This book looks at the link between voters and political party systems in Asian democracies, focusing on India, Indonesia, Korea and the Philippines.

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

Presents a theory and analysis of the relationship between parties and voters throughout the legislative period under coalition governance.

This book analyses institutional reforms implemented by Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, under his second administration from 2012 to 2020.

In view of the 2016 US election season, the second edition of this book analyzes the way political campaigns have been traditionally run and the extraordinary changes that have occurred since 2012.

To the surprise of both academics and policy-makers, religion has not been relegated entirely to the private sphere; quite the contrary.

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.

Political Representation in India: Ideas and Contestations, 1908 1952 maps extensive and wide-ranging debates, marked by contestations and strident demands on political representation in colonial India.

Given the advanced state of digital technology and social media, one would think that the Democratic and Republican Parties would be reasonably well-matched in terms of their technology uptake and sophistication.

Political parties are an established feature of contemporary democratic politics.

**A courageous police chief takes on a sinister cabal in this gripping true story of crime and corruption in South Africa.

Covering key issues ranging from education to political mobilization to racial stratification, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the Obama Presidency.

This book examines the seismic impact of Brexit on the British political system, assessing its likely long-term effect in terms of a significantly changed political and constitutional landscape.

This comparative study of post-war European socialism explores the problems of socio-economic and political reconstruction across the Iron Curtain.

This book provides a comprehensive interpretation of the multiple manifestations of populism using Italy, the only country amongst consolidated constitutional democracies in which populist political forces have been in government on various occasions since the early 1990s, as the starting point and benchmark.

For only the second time in close to a quarter century, the U.

First published in 1980, Paris and the Provinces explores why reforms of central-local relations in France have been so ineffectual.

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

National-level elections receive more attention from scholars and the media than elections at other levels, even though in many European countries the importance of both regional and European levels of government has grown in recent years.

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.

Die Spiegel-Redakteurin Melanie Amann kennt die AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) wie keine andere Beobachterin.

From 1963 to 1971, during a period that witnessed growing stress and strain in Quebec's relations with the federal government, Claude Morin was Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs in Quebec.

This book provides a novel account of the Labour Party's years in opposition and power since 1979, examining how New Labour fought to reinvent post-war social democracy, reshaping its core political ideas.

This book explains how the Sweden Democrats (SD), a populist radical right party, has moved from the fringes into the mainstream of Swedish politics.

Republican foreign policy and the conservative leaders who shaped itHard Line traces the history of Republican Party foreign policy since World War II by focusing on the conservative leaders who shaped it.

This fascinating book looks at the select group of third parties that have made a real difference in U.

Anglo-American relations, the so-called 'Special Relationship', reached a new era with the rise of New Labour and the New Democrats in the late-1980s and early-1990s.

Since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia's party system has suffered a difficult and turbulent infancy.

Any democratic regime needs an active and performative party system.

Tripura in India's Northeast remains the only region in the world which has sustained a strong left radical political tradition for more than a century, in a context not usually congenial for left politics.

The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning provides an essential, global, and timely overview of current realities, as well as anticipating the trajectory and evolution of campaigning in the coming years.

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

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.

This book reveals the Conservative Party's relationship with the extreme right between 1945 and 1975.

The Last Liberal Republican is a memoir from one of Nixons senior domestic policy advisors.

A fieldwork-based account of the role of populism, personalism and organisation in the rise of Erdoğan''s JDP to authoritarian predominance.

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 1997, this volume departs from conventional analyses of Botswana's political economy and focuses on the second phase of Botswana's capitalist development from 1966-1990, arguing that even in a formally liberal democratic country, the imperatives of economic growth and development in a capitalist context give rise to the state's close supervision and control of organised labour.

This volume discusses the changing role of the village level Chinese Communist Party secretaries in the countryside.

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.

Over the past seven decades and more political parties have become an essential feature of the political landscape of the South Asian subcontinent, serving both as a conduit and product of the tumultuous change the region has experienced.

The Prime Minister has the right to decide who shall fill the most important positions in politics, public administration, the law and the Church of England.

The Conservative Private Members (1922) Committee is an important but elusive force in British politics.

West Bengal has often been perceived as somewhat of an aberration in the wider context of a rather chaotic Indian democracy, as the Left Front (spearheaded by the Communist Party of India-Marxist, CPIM) demonstrated a rare instance of political stability, decisively winning seven consecutive democratic elections from 1977 to 2006.