Political parties and party platforms

Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science.

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

This book considers not the beginning or origins of terrorism but how groups that use terrorism end.

On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states.

The focus of this book is to analyse from a number of perspectives the politics of change in Ireland north and south since 1969.

This book explores how regional political parties use Europe to advance their territorial projects in times of rapid state restructuring.

Nigeria's democratisation efforts since attaining political independence from Britain have been tumultuous and have spanned over three successive republics.

This book, first published in 1989, examines the creation and implementation of Communist policy in Vietnam during the crucial period between the 1954 Geneva Conference and the establishment of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam in December 1960.

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

This book presents case studies around issues of national development, right wing populism and use of social media, left wing authoritarianism and popular uprisings as well as reflections on short and long term political and economic cycles in Latin America in the past 10 years.

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.

How do emotions mobilise in politics?

The Kurds constitute the largest stateless nation in the world.

This book analyzes the development of the European Parliament's (EP) committees and their relationship with national political parties in the light of the EP's increased legislative role over the last three decades.

How much autonomy do elected politicians have to shape and reshape the party system on their own, without the direct involvement of voters in elections?

Writings on post-war Japanese politics have tended to take for granted the dominance of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as inevitable, without questioning how this came about.

This book follows the life and intellectual journey of Joseph Baruch Salsberg, a Polish-Jewish immigrant who became a major figure of the Ontario Left, a leading voice for human rights in the Ontario legislature, and an important journalist in the Jewish community.

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 examines the role played by the parties themselves in two-party systems.

This book examines political party system change from a party-centric perspective and assesses how, and to what extent, established political parties in western Europe can maintain their dominant positions.

Donald Trump became famous bellowing, ';You're fired!

2021 marks the 40th anniversary of the Limehouse Declaration and the launch of the Social Democratic Party in the UK, which was later to merge and form the Liberal Democrats.

How do different electoral systems work to translate votes into seats?

Can the Internet help to re-engage the public in politics?

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

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Turkey relentlessly persecuted any form of Kurdish dissent.

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Was bedeutet es, wenn die grossen liberalen Ideen zwischen Staat und Freiheit, Gesellschaft und Gemeinschaft auf dem harten politischen Alltag aufschlagen?

This book examines Lebanese political parties and their encounters with modernity.

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.

Das Buch analysiert auf breiter theoretischer und empirischer Basis die derzeitige Situation der Mitgliederparteien und geht ausführlich auf die Niedergangsdebatte ein.

This book, first published in 1982, collects together a wide range of Western reportage on this major revolt in nineteenth century China.

No figure in the Labour movement has attracted such extremes of emotion as has James Ramsay MacDonald.

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.

This thought-provoking book offers a new global approach to understand how four social class structures have rocked our political systems, to the extent that no politician or political party can exist today without claiming to be speaking on their behalf, and no politician can hope to win an electoral majority without building a coalition among these classes.

Beset with persistent problems of self-interest, corruption, ideological incoherence, and narrow electoral majorities, political parties are the weakest link in many democratic transitions around the world.

The Labour Church was an organisation fundamental to the British socialist movement during the formative years of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and Labour Party between 1891 and 1914.

This book examines the new anti-establishment parties electorally succeeding at the expense of their established counterparts and argues that party organization matters for their electoral success.

Since the Second World War, the international community has sought to prevent the repetition of destructive far-right forces by establishing institutions such as the United Nations and by adopting documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This book makes a critical analysis of West Bengal's Left Front regime (1977-2011) and explores the causes of its collapse under three sgments; inquiry into issues of political management; evaluation of various policy initiatives; and examination of development in civil society.

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 2016 and 2018 elections are over, but looking ahead to the 2019-2020 election cycle, the debate over the fairness and accuracy of our electoral process has never been more contentious.

From the moment that the New Labour government left office in 2010, it became a bone of contention for the party.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of how the parties of Lega and Rassemblement National have adjusted their ideologies over a four-decade period to adapt to the new transnational cleavage in Western Europe - the conflict between pro-EU and anti-EU sentiments.

The functioning of representative democracy crucially depends on political parties that mediate between citizens and the state.

Differing moral views are dividing the country and polarizing the left and the right more than ever before.

Why populations brutalized in war elect their tormentorsOne of the great puzzles of electoral politics is how parties that commit mass atrocities in war often win the support of victimized populations to establish the postwar political order.

This book brings together for the first time an updated, revised collection of influential essays and articles that capture some of the most exciting scientific and scholarly contributions to the topic of political ideology.

An inside account of the Progressive Conservative's campaign organization.