Political parties and party platforms

After 13 years in power, Labour suddenly returned to being the party of opposition in 2010.

The closely contested presidential election of 2000, which many analysts felt was decided by voters for the Green Party, cast a spotlight on a structural contradiction of American politics.

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.

Why does political decentralization seem reduce intrastate conflict more in some countries than in others?

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.

In the run-up to a contentious 2020 presidential election, the much-maligned American voter may indeed be wondering, "e;How did we get here?

Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from six country studies, Gendered Electoral Financing: Money, Power and Representation in Comparative Perspective is the first cross-regional examination of the nexus between money, gender and political recruitment across the world.

This truly comparative volume examines the "e;life cycle"e; of party governments in Europe from 1990 onwards, and analyses its role and function in contemporary European parliamentary democracies.

What draws a person to the political life?

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.

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This book argues that House incumbents have not improved their electoral fortunes in recent decades.

The populist radical right is one of the most studied political phenomena in the social sciences, counting hundreds of books and thousands of articles.

This book examines the emergence and the political use of what has come to be known as "e;culture wars"e; in the United Kingdom.

The electoral success of secessionist parties in Catalonia and Scotland over the last decade, together with Brexit and the support for Eurosceptic parties in many EU member states, have prompted a rethink of many taken-for-granted notions about politics in Spain, the UK and the EU.

In the run-up to a contentious 2020 presidential election, the much-maligned American voter may indeed be wondering, "e;How did we get here?

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.

Amidst 'Brexit', a divided and out of power Labour Party, and the wider international rise of populism, contemporary British social democracy appears in a state of crisis.

This ambitious work uncovers the constitutional foundations of that most essential institution of modern democracy, the political party.

Exploring the activities of the Chinese Communist Party''s rank and file membership base, Koss advances our understanding of authoritarian parties.

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.

In the years between the two world wars, the Jewish community of Poland-the largest in Europe-was the cultural heart of the Jewish diaspora.

A thrilling account of treachery, loyalty and martyrdom in Elizabethan England from an exceptional new writer.

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.

With the Obama campaign universally acknowledged as the most successfully marketed presidential campaign of all time, the future of political marketing is fiercely contested, provoking a wealth of high quality scholarship from across the globe.

As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political significance.

The first major study of India''s regional parties which discusses why, when, and where they are electorally successful.

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

As a result of the financial crisis, opposition parties have had to choose between the need to cooperate with the majority in order to contribute to necessary socio-economic changes, and the opportunity to stress their adversarial position vis-a-vis governments taking radical and unpopular measures.

This book studies the first 50 years of Bangladesh politics since independence.

This analysis of the contours and social bases of mass voting behavior in the United States over the course of the third electoral era, from 1853 to 1892, provides a deep and rich understanding of the ways in which ethnoreligious values shaped party combat in the late nineteenth century.

An eye-opening, ';must-read' (Ben Shapiro, founder of The Daily Wire) about the future of the Republican party as they unite working-class voters in a multi-racial, cross-generational populist coalition.

The Liberal Unionist party was one of the shortest-lived political parties in British history.

The constitution that establishes the institutional framework for American national government makes no mention of political parties.

The American cultural landscape has shifted considerably since the 1990s.

This Element is an effort to link the literatures of movements and parties using evidence from American political development.

Party literature is largely focused on the rise and success of new parties and their effects on party systems and older parties.

This book provides a comparative analysis and a systemic categorization of the Populist Radical Left Parties (PRLPs) in Western Europe.

One of the most peculiar features of municipal politics in Canada is how frequently local politicians, activists, and scholars disagree about how to describe the municipal arena.

First published in 1981, The Communist Parties of Italy, France, and Spain presents a comparative and integrative overview of the development of three Communist parties in the postwar Europe.

This book provides a conceptual toolkit to understand the changing technologies and dynamics of political campaigning in India.

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

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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.

A pivotal in the study of history and politics, not only in Alabama but in the other states of the South Barnard's account is elegantly concise, the labor of conspicuous scholarship.

This book tells the story of the rise of Margaret Thatcher in the context of crises assailing Britain in the 1970s and how her ascent to power ushered in the neoliberal era.

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

The change in the method of selecting the Labour Party leader, from an elite parliamentary ballot to a mass participatory Electoral College, which occurred in 1981 was ideologically motivated.