Political parties and party platforms

During the Civil War, Northerners fought each other in elections with almost as much zeal as they fought Southern rebels on the battlefield.

In November of 2002, the Justice and Development Party swept to victory in the Turkish parliamentary elections.

The new edition of this successful book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview and account of the changing nature of party politics in Britain today.

The new edition of this successful book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview and account of the changing nature of party politics in Britain today.

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

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

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

Coalition government is the most frequent form of government in Western Europe, but we have relatively little systematic knowledge about how that form of government has developed in recent decades.

Trump, Wilders, Salvini, Le Pen - during the last decades, radical right-wing leaders and their parties have become important political forces in most western democracies.

Trump, Wilders, Salvini, Le Pen - during the last decades, radical right-wing leaders and their parties have become important political forces in most western democracies.

The functioning of representative democracy crucially depends on political parties that mediate between citizens and the state.

The functioning of representative democracy crucially depends on political parties that mediate between citizens and the state.

A partir de 1943 comienza un ciclo historico en Argentina que se consolidara con el advenimiento al gobierno de Juan Domingo Peron y de la consolidacion del Justicialismo como marco del Proyecto de desarrollo nacional inclusivo.

Coalition government among different political parties is the way most European democracies are governed.

Coalition government among different political parties is the way most European democracies are governed.

Long gone are the times when class-based political parties with extensive membership dominated politics.

Long gone are the times when class-based political parties with extensive membership dominated politics.

What is socialism?

What is socialism?

All federal systems face an internal tension between divisive and integrative political forces, striking a balance between providing local autonomy and sub-national representation on one hand, and maintaining an integrated political community and sufficient integration to maintain stability on the other hand.

All federal systems face an internal tension between divisive and integrative political forces, striking a balance between providing local autonomy and sub-national representation on one hand, and maintaining an integrated political community and sufficient integration to maintain stability on the other hand.

The process of electoral change is accelerating in contemporary democracies, and this book explains why.

The process of electoral change is accelerating in contemporary democracies, and this book explains why.

Political parties have long been recognized as essential institutions of democratic governance.

Political parties have long been recognized as essential institutions of democratic governance.

Technocratic appeals to expertise and populist invocations of 'the people' have become mainstays of political competition in established democracies.

Technocratic appeals to expertise and populist invocations of 'the people' have become mainstays of political competition in established democracies.

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

Political party organizations play large roles in democracies, yet their organizations differ widely, and their statutes change much more frequently than constitutions or electoral laws.

Despite the central role of policy preferences in the subsequent behaviour of legislators, preferences at the level of the individual legislator have been almost entirely neglected in the study of parliaments and legislative behaviour.

Despite the central role of policy preferences in the subsequent behaviour of legislators, preferences at the level of the individual legislator have been almost entirely neglected in the study of parliaments and legislative behaviour.

Since its publication in 1993, John Rawls's Political Liberalism has been central to debates concerning political legitimacy, democratic theory, toleration, and multiculturalism in contemporary political theory.

The Ulster Unionist Party: Country Before Party?

The Ulster Unionist Party: Country Before Party?

National-level elections receive more attention from scholars and the media than elections at other levels, even though in many European countries the importance of both regional and European levels of government has grown in recent years.

National-level elections receive more attention from scholars and the media than elections at other levels, even though in many European countries the importance of both regional and European levels of government has grown in recent years.

This books examines the institutional foundations of coalition government in the ten post-communist democracies of Eastern and Central Europe for the 1990-2010 period: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

The Conservative Party is the least investigated and understood of British political parties, despite its long record of success.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century prime ministers loom larger in the consciousness of their nations than perhaps in any previous era.

Voters on the Move or on the Run?

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

Political Choice Matters investigates the extent to which class and religion influence party choice in contemporary democracies.

This bold venture into democratic theory offers a new and reinvigorating thesis for how democracy delivers on its promise of public control over public policy.

The Democratic Leader argues that leaders occupy a unique place in democracies.

Politics at the Centre is a comparative study of the rules, norms and behaviour surrounding political party leadership.

Blood, Sweat, and Toil is the first scholarly history of the British working class in the Second World War.

'though a great many men and not a few women knew Ferdinand Lopez very well, none of them knew whence he had come' Despite his mysterious antecedents, Ferdinand Lopez aspires to join the ranks of British society.

Coalition governments are the norm in most of the world's parliamentary democracies.

Campaign organizers and the media appear to agree that voters' perceptions of party leaders have an important impact in elections: considerable effort is made to ensure that leaders look good, speak well, and that they are up in the polls.

Is the party over?