Political parties and party platforms

Membership of political parties is diverse.

The growing influence of Russia on the Western far right has been much discussed in the media recently.

First published in 2003, Decentring the Indian Nation examines the various centrifugal forces apparent in recent Indian politics.

The end of World War II intensified Morocco's nationalist struggle against French colonial rule, with the establishment of the Istiqlal ('independence') party and the Moroccan Sultan's emergence as a national leader.

This book examines the effects of ethnicity on polity politics in ten African countries.

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

Develops the concept of the corporatist catch-all party to explain how the CDU has responded to changing demands from women.

Mittels Process-Tracing werden in diesem Buch die komplexen Kausalmechanismen aufgedeckt, die die gelegentliche Demokratisierung der innerparteilichen Willensbildung der Parteien auf Landesebene erklären.

With the Obama campaign universally acknowledged as the most successfully marketed presidential campaign of all time, the future of political marketing is fiercely contested, provoking a wealth of high quality scholarship from across the globe.

Never before has the story been told of the dramatic turning point when Ronald Reagan found his voice as a presidential contender and overcame the Republican establishment.

For a long time analyses of political parties were framed within the usual context of democracy and of the historical transformation of the forms of democratic government.

Using German political parties as a prism with which to view institutional change, this collection transcends a single country focus and places the German experience in a comparative and historical framework.

Why has Europe's centre-left failed to respond to the crisis of neoliberalism in Europe?

The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups is a major new volume that will help scholars assess the current state of scholarship on parties and interest groups and the directions in which it needs to move.

The Paradox of Parliament provides a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of Parliament in order to explain the paradoxical expectations placed on the institution.

This book addresses the paradox of political mobilization and the failings of governance in India, with reference to the conflict between secularism and Hindu nationalism, authoritarianism and democracy.

This book, first published in 1991, analyses the role of women in the Eritrean struggle for independence.

First published in 1983.

First published in 1987.

Within the democratisation literature, opposition unity is widely seen as an important requisite to successfully pressure authoritarian rulers into liberalising reforms and in bringing about democratic change.

Contemporary British Conservatism brings together a set of specially-commissioned chapters by leading authorities to provide a broad-ranging assessment of Conservative politics, policy and ideology today.

The 2010s were a decade of foodbanks, riots, and the rebirth of political alternatives.

Social structure may historically have been of primary importance in accounting for the attitudes and behaviour of many citizens, but now changes in social structure have diminished the role played by class and religious affiliation, whilst the significance of personality in political leadership has increased.

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The Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe represents the standard reference text and practical resource for everybody who analyzes issues such as local electoral systems, voting behavior, or political representation in Europe.

The book reappraises Neil Kinnock's policies, impact, legacy and leadership of the Labour Party 30 years on from his defeat in the 1992 general election.

Long gone are the times when class-based political parties with extensive membership dominated politics.

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

Wäre eine mehrheitsbildende Wahlsystemreform eine bedenkenswerte Lösungsalternative in der verfahrenen deutschen Wahlsystemreformdebatte?

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.

Offers a fundamental re-evaluation of the origins and importance of the idea of ''party'' in British politics and political thought.

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.

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 white nationalist movement in the United States is nothing new.

A diverse range of experts provide a comprehensive introduction to current theories, debates and research in Australian political science.

Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communists).

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.

Originally published in 1968, the theme of this book is the decline of the influence of the House of Commons in general and the rise in particular in the power of the Prime Minister.

In Violence of Democracy Ruchi Chaturvedi tracks the rise of India's divisive politics through close examination of decades-long confrontations in Kerala between members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and supporters of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Selecting political leaders by popular election is an unquestioned hallmark of representative democracies-the institutional manifestation of Lincoln's promise of a government of the people and by the people.

Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats: Unfinished Business now available in paperback, offers new research on familiar themes involving loyalties of politics, faith and locality.

How Political Parties Respond focuses specifically on the question of interest aggregation.

Die Autorin untersucht die Unterschiede in der Wahlbeteiligung auf subnationaler Ebene bei allgemeinen Wahlen in Ghana.

What impact has EU membership had on party politics in Central and Eastern Europe?

This volume discusses the formation of government cabinets within twenty European democracies, providing the institutional background to the selection and de-selection of ministers.

This book is the definitive guide to the topical issue of the relationship between political parties that embrace the democratic process and terrorist groups which eschew the legal and procedural strictures of democracy.

The study of Marxism in Britain throws light on what many historians have referred to as `the enemy within'.

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.