Political parties and party platforms

Despite the so-called Third Wave of Democratization, many autocracies have been resilient in the face of political change.

When the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) came to power in September 2009, Japanese citizens expected the imminent arrival of a new political era, characterized by a two-party system.

Australian Climate Policy and Diplomacy provides a well overdue critique of existing, and high-profile, publications that convey the 'greenhouse mafia' hypothesis, which posits that Australia's weak policy response to climate change is the result of a menacing domestic fossil fuel lobby.

When Mexico's authoritarian Party of the Institutional Revolution (PRI) was defeated in the 2000 presidential election after seventy-one years of uninterrupted rule, many analysts believed the party would inevitably splinter and collapse.

Party Politics and Democratization in Indonesia: Golkar in the Post-Suharto Era provides the first in-depth analysis of contemporary Indonesian party politics and the first systematic explanation why Golkar is still the strongest party in Indonesia.

The world is increasingly becoming less democratic and this trend has not left Southeast Europe untouched.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.

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.

In recent years most western democracies have experienced a shift from elite to mass higher education, with the United States leading the way.

This book introduces a new framework for understanding how the relationship between political parties and the state shapes the development of political parties, party systems and democratic consolidation.

Since the original edition of Dynamics of the Party System was published in 1973, American politics have continued on a tumultuous course.

This book examines how the Democratic party tried to construct a winning electoral coalition between 1877 and 1962.

The election of the most left-wing Labour Party Leader since 1945, followed by the Party's third consecutive general election defeat and the ongoing cultural divisions around Brexit present an ideal opportunity for a thorough re-evaluation of the state of the Party within its broader ideological and historical context.

This bold venture into political theory and comparative politics combines traditional concerns about democracy with modern analytical methods.

Originally published in 1972, this book is an account of the events which led Humphry Berkeley to join the Labour Party after seven years a Conservative Member of Parliament and twenty years as a member of the Conservative Party.

Len McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era.

Recent elections in the advanced western democracies have undermined the basic foundations of political systems that had previously beaten back all challenges -- from both the left and the right.

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

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 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 edited volume affords conceptual and analytical convergence in the study of political incivility by bringing together theoretical and empirical work of scholars from various (sub)disciplines studying political incivility within European countries and the USA.

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 work provides a concise, authoritative, and illuminating overview of the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

This book comprehensively describes the impact of modern technologies on political leadership by providing a new paradigm of the phenomenon of neo-leadership, that is political leadership oriented on creating both the image and political influence on the Internet.

This book focuses on the varied support for the populist radical right in the Benelux countries: Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Die Wahlen 2010 haben zu massiven Umwälzungen des politischen Systems Ungarns geführt, die das Land bis zum heutigen Tag transformiert haben.

Are celebrity politics the spice of American public life or a pox on policy progress?

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.

In this book, Enrico Padoan proposes an original middle-range theory to explain the emergence and the internal organisation of anti-neoliberal populist parties in Latin America and Southern Europe, and the relationships between these parties and the organised working class.

Political parties have long been recognized as essential institutions of democratic governance.

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

The idea of 'New India' has acquired a new currency.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the spread of democracy since the 1990s has been accompanied by the proliferation of bans on ethnic political parties.

This book looks at theories of party development from the perspective of Russia.

The African National Congress is light years beyond the liberation movement of old.

A rivalry that remade the political world as we know it todayPolitics today doesnt look much like it did fifty years ago.

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Who Judges?

Citizens are political simpletons--that is only a modest exaggeration of a common characterization of voters.

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 African National Congress is light years beyond the liberation movement of old.

Wo steht Deutschland nach dem Regierungswechsel?

Political parties are an essential ingredient in a modern democracy.

In a time of rising inequality and plutocratic government, citizens' movements are emerging with growing frequency to offer populist challenges to the declining living standards of masses of Americans, and to protest the conditions through which individuals suffer in poor communities across the country.