Political parties and party platforms

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

Moving from a social movement perspective, this timely volume examines narratives on Euroscepticism and frames on Europe from below, at the party and social movement levels.

Editors Pick for the Conservative Book ClubA roadmap to the future for RepublicansWith each passing election cycle, Republicans face stiffer and stiffer odds for winning elections at all levels.

Virtually all academic books on American third parties in the last half-century assume that they have largely disappeared.

South Africa came late to television; when it finally arrived in the late 1970s the rest of the world had already begun to boycott the country because of apartheid.

This book, first published in 1973, examines seven revolutionary armies ranging from Cromwell's New Model Army to the Red Army of Mao Zedong.

The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (TDFR) was a unique, bottom-up, and a fleeting display of political unity and federalism among the main Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian political factions between 22 April 1918, when it declared its independence, and 26 May 1918, when it was dissolved and replaced by the three nation-states of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

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

Turkish accession to the European Union is an important but controversial item on the agenda of the European Union.

In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the "e;Dixiecrats,"e; and chose Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate.

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.

Political Innovations: Creative Transformations in Polity, Politics and Policy provides a theoretical framework for studies of political innovation as well as a number of empirical studies of innovations in the way policy strategies take form, in the exercise of political leadership, in community self-organizing, in political parties, and what implications informal governance has on political innovation.

Since the founding of the American Republic, the North and South have followed remarkably different paths of political development.

This major study examines the regeneration of the former communist parties in East Central Europe after 1989.

Nie in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik war das Vertrauen in die Parteien geringer.

The Impact of Legislatures brings together key articles and path-breaking scholarship published in The Journal of Legislative Studies during its first 25 years of publication, enabling the reader to make sense of the impact of legislatures in the modern world.

What kind of Europe do social democratic parties prefer?

The Challenges of Intra-Party Democracy provides a comprehensive examination of both the concept and the practice of intra-party democracy (IPD).

Formed out of a breakaway from the mainstream Liberal party in 1931, the Liberal National party (renamed the 'National Liberal Party' in 1948) preserved a separate identity for almost 40 years.

Did the Labour Party, in Morgan Phillips' famous phrase, owe 'more to Methodism than Marx'?

This book examines how social democratic parties have responded to populist radical right parties in the battle for support from working-class voters.

Why do people identify with political parties?

Es gibt nur wenige Themen, die so stetig und intensiv im Mittelpunkt der politik- und rechtswissenschaftlichen, aber auch der öffentlichen Diskussion stehen wie die Politikfinanzierung.

Money and politics in an election that broke the moldBeginning with the 1960 election, readers could turn to one book for an authoritative and comprehensive examination of campaign finance at the federal level.

In August 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won a crushing victory over the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), thus bringing to an end over fifty years of one-party dominance.

A powerful exploration of the role of women in the Republican Party that enhances readers' understanding of gender representation in the GOP and suggests solutions to address the partisan gender gap.

Considered the "e;gold standard"e; of political parties texts, this new, eighteenth edition of Party Politics in America moves its comprehensive and authoritative coverage into the age of deepened partisan conflict, expanded presidential power, and global health threats.

Following a normative approach that suggests international norms and standards for elections apply universally, regardless of regime type or cultural context, this book examines the challenges to electoral integrity, the actors involved, and the consequences of electoral malpractice and poor electoral integrity that vary by regime type.

Die "Historisch-Politischen Mitteilungen" der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung bieten ein Forum für Forschungen und Darstellungen zur Geschichte der christlich-demokratischen Bewegungen und Parteien und ihrer Vorgeschichte im Kontext der geistigen, politischen und sozialen Entwicklungen des 19.

First published in 1980, Paris and the Provinces explores why reforms of central-local relations in France have been so ineffectual.

Examining the Green Party Taiwan (GPT) since its establishment through the aftermath of the most recent national elections in January 2020, this book focuses on Taiwan's most important movement party over the last two and a half decades.

This Elements proposes an explanatory scheme on the rise to power of a new right in Latin America.

The fifth edition of Public Opinion: Measuring the American Mind provides a comprehensive, accessible introduction to public opinion in the United States and describes how public opinion data are collected, how they are used, and the role they play in the U.

This book demonstrates that nineteenth-century electoral politics were the product of institutions that prescribed how votes were cast and were converted into political offices.

This collection of essays looks at power resources theory (PRT), a groundbreaking approach to political theory that builds upon the existing strengths of Marxist theorizing while addressing its weaknesses.

Combines data from Kenya and India to show how party instability can impact elites'' decisions to organize party violence.

The roots of the recent financial crisis can be found in the substantial changes which have affected British economy and society over the last three decades.

Our portraits of voters, their relationship to parties, and the behavior of elected party members have changed significantly within the last 10 to 15 years.

This revealing and controversial book weighs and reflects on the historical truth of the accusations of sympathy with Fascism against Plaid Cymru and its leaders.

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.

Wie manifestiert sich der Antisemitismus in einer rechtspopulistischen Partei?

Die vorliegende Untersuchung bietet erstmals eine empirisch fundierte Übersicht zur deutschen Sozialdemokratie auf der kommunalen Ebene von 1945 bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart.

While the 1950s in Canada were years of social conformity, it was also a time of political, economic, and technological change.

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.

As a consequence of Sinn Fein's connection with the IRA, the military side of the republican movement has tended to overshadow the political, both in terms of its internal operation and strategic choices and in terms of the attention that it has attracted from scholars, writers and journalists.

Contemporary Western societies are witnessing ground-breaking social, economic and political changes at an accelerating pace.

'Engrossing' Daniel Beer, Guardian'A beautiful book.

Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis for Jewish collective identity in the twentieth century.