Political parties and party platforms

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

In 2005, almost 700,000 immigrants acquired the citizenship of a member state of the European Union; over 600,000 became US citizens; nearly 100,000 became Australians and approximately 200,000 Canadians.

This book explores the mechanisms and elements of populism to develop new theoretical and methodological approaches.

Religion, violence, and ethnicity are all intertwined in the history of Pakistan.

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

European social movements have become increasingly visible in recent years, generating intense public debates.

This book explores the party politics and political system of Japan, which since 1955 has been dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), with a particular focus on the evolution of LDP governments between the 1990s and 2010s.

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

Als sich die SED 1989 in die PDS verwandelte, verfügte sie über ein geheimes Geldvermögen von rund 6,2 Milliarden DDR-Mark.

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.

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.

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 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has moved from a religion-dominated protest party to a pragmatic party of government in Northern Ireland, the most popular in the region, with more votes, Assembly seats, and MPs than any of its rivals.

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 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.

At the national level, political parties play an important role in making representative democracy work.

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

Originally published in 1985, New Nationalisms in the Developed West is a collection of interdisciplinary and insightful essays on modern nationalist movements.

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 reveals the Conservative Party's relationship with the extreme right between 1945 and 1975.

In Can Common People Govern?

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the British Labour Party was broadly supportive of Irish home rule.

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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.

Long regarded as the "e;gold standard"e; of political parties texts, this new, nineteenth edition of Party Politics in America brings its comprehensive and authoritative coverage of party politics into an age of heightened partisan conflict; threats to the acceptance of democratic institutions; changes in the balance of power among the president, Congress, and the Supreme Court, and judicial rulings that upend long-established precedents.

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.

Democrats and Progressives: The 1948 Presidential Election as a Test of Postwar Liberalism examines the role and influence of the 1948 Progressive Party, led by Henry A.

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.

Die grassierenden Verschwörungstheorien, ein durch Soziale Medien und das Internet gespeister Postfaktizismus und die politische Radikalisierung, wie sie sich in der Pandemie, aber auch in der Entsolidarisierung mit der Ukraine oder bei der Leugnung des Klimawandels beobachten lassen, können als Symptome einer krisenhaften Modernisierung der Industriegesellschaften verstanden werden.

This easy-to-understand guide to politics and government introduces more than 80 of the most important theories and big ideas of leaders and politicians throughout history.

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 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 analyses the rise and growth of the Hindu nationalist party Bharatiya Jana Sangh in post independent India, tracking the electoral journey of the party from 1951 to 1971.

Party and Democracy questions why political parties today are held in such low estimation in advanced democracies.

The Emerging Populist Majority analyzes America's political future and changing coalitions through long-term and emerging trends across demography, geography, and ideology.

Provides a new way of thinking about parties formed by social movements, and their evolution over time.

Likely to raise hackles among Democrats and Republicans alike, this dynamic history of modern Florida argues that the Sunshine State has become the political and demographic future of the nation.

This book focuses on the rise of new challenger parties and the magnitude of their impact on political systems and the existing political order in Southern Europe in the aftermath of the Great Recession.

Southeast European politics cannot be understood without considering ethnic minorities.

For nearly 200 years, Americans have pinned the democratic character of their system on elections.

This book explores the party politics and political system of Japan, which since 1955 has been dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), with a particular focus on the evolution of LDP governments between the 1990s and 2010s.

Political Islam in Tunisia uncovers the secret history of Tunisia's main Islamist movement, Ennahda, from its origins in the 1960s to the present.

The influence of the late R.

The Liberal Party emerged in mid-Victorian Britain from a combination of Whigs and Peelite Tories.

The Paradox of Parliament provides a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of Parliament in order to explain the paradoxical expectations placed on the institution.

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 comprehensive study of local politics in Russia shows that the key reforms of local government, and the struggle to forge viable grassroots democracies have been inextricably linked to the wider struggle for power between the regions and the Kremlin, and to the specific nature of Russia's highly politicized and negotiated form of asymmetrical federalism.