Political parties and party platforms

Explaining Religious Party Strength explores why religious political parties are electorally successful in some countries but not in others.

The struggle between the main political parties has been reduced to an unpopularity contest, in which voters hold their noses and sigh as they trudge to the polls.

This book explains the conditions under which political parties in government were able to influence economic growth in post-communist European countries.

Redefined during the past thirty years, the centre of government currently extends itself further than ever before.

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.

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

This new edition examines the theory, structure, and the contemporary electoral process, analyzing how the system has evolved, how it is working today, and its challenges for the future.

Modern presidents are usually depicted as party "e;predators"e; who neglect their parties, exploit them for personal advantage, or undercut their organizational capacities.

How do leading Conservative politicians strive to communicate with and influence the electorate?

It is 1989 and a seemingly invincible Prime Minister has sacked Geoffrey Howe, her Foreign Secretary.

First past the post is one of the oldest and simplest electoral systems.

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

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.

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

Politics in Scotland is an authoritative introduction to the contemporary political landscape in Scotland and an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Scottish Politics.

Elections in America provides a thorough and objective explanation of American elections at the local, state, and national levels.

The book draws on Pakistan''s experience to explore why and when political parties engage in violence or ally with militant actors.

The Corporate Rich and the Power Elite in the Twentieth Century demonstrates exactly how the corporate rich developed and implemented the policies and created the government structures that allowed them to dominate the United States.

Party affiliation has long been the driving force behind electoral politics in the United States.

Contravening conventional wisdom, Zelizer offers a spirited defense of parties and partisanship.

In this book, Benjamin Farrer explains how activists can influence the policies they care about, even when they are outnumbered and their issues are ignored.

Morality at the Ballot examines the ability of direct democracy (the process of deciding policy through the ballot) to increase turnout.

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.

White evangelicals occupy strange property on the ideological map in America, exhibiting a pronounced commitment to the principle of limited government, and yet making a significant exception for issues relating to personal morality - an exception many observers take to be paradoxical at best.

The Chinese Communist Party, as the political leader of the world's largest country and second largest economy, plays an undeniably important role in global politics.

This book explains the formation in the 1990s of successful political parties in four Latin American countries.

Throughout Europe, stateless nationalist and regionalist parties have moved from 'niche' actors in party systems to mainstream political players.

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.

A Civil Society?

Women, Men, and Elections sheds new light on gendered political behaviour by analysing the relationship between policy supply and gender gaps in vote choice across elections in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and multiple Western European countries.

"e; The South continues to be the most distinctive region in American politics.

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.

Party Influence in Congress challenges current arguments and evidence about the influence of parties in the US Congress.

This book examines attempts by the Conservative party in the interwar years to capture the 'brains' of the new electorate and create a counter-culture to what they saw as the intellectual hegemony of the Left.

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.

Conventional wisdom holds that the American military is overwhelmingly conservative and Republican, and extremely political.

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.

Jeremy Corbyn proved to be one of Labour's most popular and yet one of its most divisive leaders amongst the membership.

The classic you-are-there account of the Nixon-McGovern election by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author: "e;A brilliant analysis.

Since 1950, the South has undergone the most dramatic political transformation of any region in the United States.

The first major study of India''s regional parties which discusses why, when, and where they are electorally successful.

Dispersed Democratic Leadership examines both the scope and consequences of the dispersal of the leadership role in democratic societies, a topic that has been relatively neglected by a political science literature dominated by studies of executive power.

A one-volume history of the most consequential political movements of our timepopulism, nationalism, socialismand how they are influencing the twenty-first centuryThe distinguished political analyst John Judis has brought out a book with Columbia Global Reports during each of the last three national political seasons: The Populist Explosion in 2016, The Nationalist Revival in 2018, and The Socialist Awakening in 2020.

This book examines the processes of transition from authoritarian rule in Tunisia and Egypt between 2011 and 2014, arguing that differences between the two countries can be explained by the conduct of their respective political parties.

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.