This book considers the emergence of centre right parties in Eastern Europe following the fall of communism, focusing primarily on the case of the Czech Republic.
Two trends are dramatically altering the American political landscape: growing immigration and the rising prominence of independent and nonpartisan voters.
Hicken analyzes the formation of nationally oriented political parties in democracies and its variation across countries using a theory of aggregation incentives.
Roughly sixty-five years ago, a group of political scientists operating as the "e;Committee on Political Parties"e; of the American Political Association thought long and hard about whether the American parties were adequately serving their democracy, and made specific recommendations for improvements.
This book develops a theory of presidential public leadership taking into account the partisan nature of the political debate and the role of presidents.
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.
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 book explores the ways in which political parties, in contemporary parliamentary democracies, choose their leaders and then subsequently hold them accountable.
In this searing indictment of current administration policy, Charles Tiefer, a distinguished scholar of national legal affairs and former solicitor of the House of Representatives, argues that President George W.
This book explains the conditions under which political parties in government were able to influence economic growth in post-communist European countries.
The book assesses the development of the Orban regime in Hungary after 2010 through analyzing the polity-politics-policy impacts from a perspective of populism as an ideology focusing on discourse and actual decisions.
This book deals with the structure of Spanish politics: how citizens and parties locate themselves in political space, and how these actors make decisions based on their positions in the various dimensions this space consists of.
Building on a comprehensive theoretical framework that draws on discursive and ideational approaches to populism, this volume offers a comparative mapping of the Populist Radical Left in contemporary Europe.
Margit Tavits demonstrates that the successful establishment of a political party in a new democracy crucially depends on the strength of its organization.
This book examines and explains the Center-Left's political decline since 2008, whilst analyzing the factors that account for its sagging electoral and popular support, losing voters both to the Far-Left, the Far-Right, and abstentions.
The Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe represents the standard reference text and practical resource for everybody who analyzes issues such as local electoral systems, voting behavior, or political representation in Europe.
Reveals the multiple independent political tactics and strategies that African Americans have used to expand democracy and uphold civil and political rights since the founding of the nation.
This book critically evaluates the rise of the far-right in Greece, detailing the legal context in which to understand both the emergence of Golden Dawn, the far-right's largest grouping, and the 2020 court decision, in which it was deemed to be a criminal organisation.
Die Studie erforscht die parteiinternen, parteiexternen und reformpolitischen Ursachen für das Scheitern des Dritten Weges der britischen und deutschen Sozialdemokratie.
Wolfgang Schäuble prägte seit einem halben Jahrhundert die deutsche Politik – die Biografie einer Ausnahmegestalt der Zeitgeschichte, umfassend aktualisiert und erweitert.
