Political parties and party platforms

'Written with Burleigh's characteristic brio, with pithy summaries of historical moments (he is brilliant on the Americans in Vietnam, for example) and full of surprising vignettes' - The Times 'Book of the Week'In Day of the Assassins, acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh examines assassination as a special category of political violence and asks whether, like a contagious disease, it can be catching.

Tamilnadu's politics and culture befuddle outside observers.

Jonathan Parry presents a history of Liberalism that is organized around themes in British Liberal politics since the early nineteenth century.

For a brief moment in 2019 Britain's politics looked like it might be transformed.

Political parties are an established feature of contemporary democratic politics.

For a brief moment in 2019 Britain's politics looked like it might be transformed.

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

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

This book charts the development of political thought within the British Liberal Party and its successor, the Liberal Democrats.

This book charts the development of political thought within the British Liberal Party and its successor, the Liberal Democrats.

Political parties are an established feature of contemporary democratic politics.

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This book looks at how the British Labour Party came to terms with the 1960's 'cultural revolution', specifically changes to: the class structure, place of women, black immigration, the generation gap and calls for direct political participation.

This book provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the five main parties of the extreme right in the Netherlands (Centrumdemocraten, Centrumpartij), Belgium (Vlaams Blok), and Germany (Die Republikaner, Deutsche Volksunion).

How political parties choose their leaders, and why they choose the leaders they do, are questions of fundamental importance in contemporary parliamentary democracies.

How political parties choose their leaders, and why they choose the leaders they do, are questions of fundamental importance in contemporary parliamentary democracies.

This book is the first analysis of political defections over a long time span.

Why did it take the Conservative Party so long to recover power?

Paradoxes of internationalization deals with British and German trade union responses to the internationalization of corporate structures and strategies at Ford and General Motors between the late 1960s and the early twenty-first century.

This book offers an original interpretation of Britain's relationship with Europe over a 25 year period: 1959-84 and advances the argument that the current problems over EU membership resulted from much earlier political machinations.

This book offers an original interpretation of Britain's relationship with Europe over a 25 year period: 1959-84 and advances the argument that the current problems over EU membership resulted from much earlier political machinations.

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

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

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.

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.

This book examines the phenomenon of the independent politician, believed to be extinct in most political systems.

This book examines the phenomenon of the independent politician, believed to be extinct in most political systems.

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

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

This book explores the process of rebuilding the Conservative Party under David Cameron's leadership since 2005.

This book explores the process of rebuilding the Conservative Party under David Cameron's leadership since 2005.

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

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

“Antes de Hitler ser antissemita, a Alemanha era antissemita, antes da Alemanha ser antissemita, o mundo todo era antissemita.

This book details a proposal for a constitutional amendment to create a Third House of Congress comprised of tribunes, appointed by lot.

First detailed study of India's fastest growing political party.

As a term of praise for having won the Civil War and having kept the nation together, the Republicans were dubbed the Grand Old Party or GOP.

In this adaptation of the creation story, God creates desert canyons and riverbeds as a potter would, the leopard's spots and the zebra's stripes as a painter would, and the voices of laughter as a musician would.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the nationalist ideas and practices of Turkey's Nationalist Action Party (MHP) from its founder, Alparslan Turkes, to its current leader, Devlet Bahceli.

Meet the ';deplorables.

"e;This book is very tough.

Are American political parties really in decay?

No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame and influence of The Communist Manifesto.

Ein Buch, das Fragen stellt, die wir uns kaum noch zu stellen wagen: Warum scheint das Denken in einer Zeit, die von Wissen und Technologie dominiert wird, in einen Stillstand zu verfallen?

Set against the changing and turbulent politics of California from the 1930s through the 1950s,Campaigns Inc.

American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated.

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.

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.

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

The Sultan's Communists uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco's national liberation project and examines how Moroccan Jews envisioned themselves participating as citizens in a newly-independent Morocco.