Political parties and party platforms

This Element explains how capitalist dynamics help form coalitions in ideological struggles over state-civil society power relationships.

Examines the results of the Middle Eastern oil boom of the 1970s–80s on the Egyptian economy and how this economic growth has an impact on Egyptian society.

Explores the growing party divisions on the environment in the United States.

This major reinterpretation of British-German relations in the 1970s explores why the two countries rarely saw eye to eye over European integration.

Discusses the structure of political parties in order to help understand modern American politics.

This Element focuses on the development of typology of post-partisan political identities.

Discusses the structure of political parties in order to help understand modern American politics.

Offers the first systematic comparative analysis of the conditions under which populism slides into illiberal rule and the prospects for US democracy.

Drawing on extensive interviews, Hartshorn explains how labor became a revolutionary topic prior to the Arab Uprisings of 2010–2011.

In the United States and Britain, capitalists organized in opposition to clientelism and demanded programmatic parties and institutional reforms.

Offers the first systematic comparative analysis of the conditions under which populism slides into illiberal rule and the prospects for US democracy.

This Element focuses on the development of typology of post-partisan political identities.

This major reinterpretation of British-German relations in the 1970s explores why the two countries rarely saw eye to eye over European integration.

A comprehensive new account of China''s entry into the global legal order and its role in helping to reshape it.

Recovers a contested, evolving tradition of conservative constitutional argument that shaped the past and is bidding to make the future.

This is the first full-length scholarly study of the Chinese ''core'' leader and his role in the Chinese Communist Party''s elite politics.

This is the first full-length scholarly study of the Chinese ''core'' leader and his role in the Chinese Communist Party''s elite politics.

Looks at how Nigeria''s political parties compete for power in a context of transition, terrorism, and religious and ethnic tension.

Explores the primary modes by which rulers have exercised power and shaped political relations in Timor-Leste.

A fieldwork-based account of the role of populism, personalism and organisation in the rise of Erdoğan''s JDP to authoritarian predominance.

Argues that radical right voting in Europe is rooted in people''s feelings of attachment to and defensiveness of their local communities.

Exploring the activities of the Chinese Communist Party''s rank and file membership base, Koss advances our understanding of authoritarian parties.

Exploring the activities of the Chinese Communist Party''s rank and file membership base, Koss advances our understanding of authoritarian parties.

Explains cross-national differences in the political and partisan representation of low-income voters, focusing attention on the electoral geography of income.

Explains cross-national differences in the political and partisan representation of low-income voters, focusing attention on the electoral geography of income.

A bold re-interpretation of democracy''s historical rise in Europe, Ziblatt highlights the surprising role of conservative political parties with sweeping implications for democracy today.

A bold re-interpretation of democracy''s historical rise in Europe, Ziblatt highlights the surprising role of conservative political parties with sweeping implications for democracy today.

This analysis reveals how issue ownership, performance and competence shape public opinion about parties, government support and elections, over time and cross-nationally.

This analysis reveals how issue ownership, performance and competence shape public opinion about parties, government support and elections, over time and cross-nationally.

Gender and Elections is the most comprehensive, reliable, and trustworthy resource on the role of gender in electoral politics.

Four laws of party seats and votes are constructed by logic and tested, using physics-like approaches which are rare in social sciences.

Four laws of party seats and votes are constructed by logic and tested, using physics-like approaches which are rare in social sciences.

Using novel data, the book develops a new theory on how European far-right parties establish roots in local societies.

This book asks: are politics local?

This book shows that party polarization in America is the norm, not the exception, and is rooted in class-based conflict characterizing all of American history.

This book shows that party polarization in America is the norm, not the exception, and is rooted in class-based conflict characterizing all of American history.

Who Judges?

Democrats and Republicans have become geographically divided along regional lines, which has furthered the ideological polarization of American politics.

Democrats and Republicans have become geographically divided along regional lines, which has furthered the ideological polarization of American politics.

This book presents a new and conflict-centered theory of successful party-building, drawing on diverse cases from across Latin America.

This book presents a new and conflict-centered theory of successful party-building, drawing on diverse cases from across Latin America.

This book shows how political parties in Latin America can survive and even revive after electoral crises.

This book shows how political parties in Latin America can survive and even revive after electoral crises.

Radcliff examines the question of how political outcomes in democratic societies determine the quality of life that citizens experience.

Radcliff examines the question of how political outcomes in democratic societies determine the quality of life that citizens experience.

Margit Tavits demonstrates that the successful establishment of a political party in a new democracy crucially depends on the strength of its organization.

Margit Tavits demonstrates that the successful establishment of a political party in a new democracy crucially depends on the strength of its organization.

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?