Political parties and party platforms

Although historians have assumed previously that early Kentucky was a one-party area, Watlington has discovered that there were actually three active parties the partisan, court, and country.

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 book provides a comprehensive view on the internal life of parties and investigates the dynamics of intra-party politics in different party environments to explain in which circumstances the party leader is more or less bound by the wills of party factions.

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 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.

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.

Forty years before COVID-19, socialists in Britain campaigned for workers to have the right to make 'socially useful' products, from hospital equipment to sustain the NHS to affordable heating systems for the impoverished elderly.

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

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

The Chinese Communist Party and China's Capitalist Revolution examines issues of political change and development in China.

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.

The Bolsheviks Come to Power is one of the most important histories of the Russian Revolution to challenge the mainstream narratives.

A wide-ranging account of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan and its ideological and behavioural development since its founding in 1945.

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

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.

National liberation, one of the grand narratives of the twentieth century, has left a weighty legacy of unfulfilled dreams.

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

Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics.

The book analyses how political parties compete and strategise on the issue of territorial reform using case-studies that include countries from both Western (Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain) and Central-Eastern Europe (Poland, Slovakia and Romania).

This Element examines how the changing economic basis of nineteenth century Britain contributed to the development of British politics.

For a given electoral system, what average number and sizes of parties and government duration can we expect?

The end of the twentieth century saw an unprecedented coincidence of electoral success for social democratic parties in western Europe leading to intensive discussion on the future of this new European left.

This book explores contemporary populist politics through the lens of ontological security theory.

Pollsters and pundits armed with the best public opinion polls failed to predict the election of Donald Trump in 2016.

The 2010s were a decade of foodbanks, riots, and the rebirth of political alternatives.

This book explores the various ways in which citizens are represented in EU policy-making.

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Are election campaigns relevant to policymaking, as they should in a democracy?

This book examines dominant parties in both established democracies and new democracies and explores the relationship between dominant parties and the democratic process.

This book takes a closer look at the role and meaning of political opposition for the development of democracy across sub-Saharan Africa.

In the parliamentary system of government, manifestos constitute and represent an important aspect of the democratic electoral politics as statements of a party's ideology, response and policy.

The elections of 1994 produced the first Republican-controlled Congress in 40 years.

This book, first published in 1987, analysed the state and changing nature of political opposition in Western Europe at the time.

Key party goals serve to advance a policy brand and maximize seats in the legislature.

New Labour is the most innovative and powerful political movement in Britain today.

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.

From primaries to gerrymandering, this book scrutinizes and offers a proposed solution to the Supreme Court''s problematic political parties'' jurisprudence.

Are we seeing the presidentialization of politics in Japan?

This book represents the first comprehensive study of the evolution of parties and party systems in all nine democratic European states with less than one million inhabitants.

The 10th edition of this classic text introduces students to political parties and their critical role in representative democracy at the local, state, and national levels.

This edited volume examines populist radical right parties in the Nordic region.

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.

Party competition for votes in free and fair elections involves complex interactions by multiple actors in political landscapes that are continuously evolving, yet classical theoretical approaches to the subject leave many important questions unanswered.

"Um eine neue Gesellschaft errichten zu können, müssen neue Menschen erschaffen werden.

Outcomes of legislative elections are typically reported in terms of party support: how many votes and seats were obtained by each party?

Political parties are an established feature of contemporary democratic politics.

This timely compilation of papers was originally presented at the 1987 Hofstra University Conference on the Nixon Presidency.

Using applied political theory, JoAnne Myers presents five markers by which citizens become second-class citizens-property, productivity, participation, patriotism, and reproduction.