Political Parties category: 994 books
Party Games
Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Much of late-nineteenth-century American politics was parade and pageant. Voters crowded the polls, and their votes made a real difference on policy. In Party Games, Mark Wahlgren Summers tells the full story and admires much of the political carnival, but he adds a cautionary note about the dark...
Presidential Party Building
Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Modern presidents are usually depicted as party "predators" who neglect their parties, exploit them for personal advantage, or undercut their organizational capacities. Challenging this view, Presidential Party Building demonstrates that every Republican president since Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Choices and Changes
Interest Groups in the Electoral Process
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Choices and Changes is the most comprehensive examination to date of the impact of interest groups on recent American electoral politics. Richly informed, theoretically and empirically, it is the first book to explain the emergence of aggressive interest group electioneering tactics in the mid-1990s—including...
by Ikuo Kabashima, Gill Steel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Changing Politics in Japan is a fresh and insightful account of the profound changes that have shaken up the Japanese political system and transformed it almost beyond recognition in the last couple of decades. Ikuo Kabashima—a former professor who is now Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture—and Gill...
The Party's Over
Blueprint for a Very English Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Consider the following paradox: As the leaders of both of the main British political parties subscribed to the neoconservative doctrine on Iraq, everybody else in the birthplace of parliamentary democracy was effectively disenfranchised. Yet one of the rationales supporting the deployment of UK forces...
The State of the Parties
The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Every four years, The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. With the dual themes of continuity and change characterizing the new edition, this essential party primer includes: three new chapters on party roles in the 2008 election, a section...
Cartelisation, Convergence or Increasing Similarities?
Lessons from Parties in Parliament
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
It is often suggested that political parties are becoming increasingly alike, and that party politics has turned into an elite affair where political professionals collude to further their self-interest rather than work to represent the interests of their constituents. In recent decades this diagnosis...
Government-Opposition in Southern European Countries during the Economic Crisis
Great Recession, Great Cooperation?
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
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-à-vis governments taking radical and unpopular measures.
This...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Legislatures are political bodies essential to democracy and the rule of law. They present social scientists with numerous intriguing puzzles, with far-reaching implications for our understanding of political institutions. Why, and how, have these ancient assemblies, established in pre-democratic...
What's Left of the Left
Democrats and Social Democrats in Challenging Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
In What’s Left of the Left, distinguished scholars of European and U.S. politics consider how center-left political parties have fared since the 1970s. They explore the left’s responses to the end of the postwar economic boom, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the erosion of traditional party...
Divided America
The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Divided America tells the biggest story in American politics today. It's the story behind the emergence of a ferocious power struggle between conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats that is tearing the country's politics apart.
Drawing on extensive polling data and close analyses of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book offers a critical and comparative examination of international support to political parties and party systems in emerging and prospective new democracies in several world regions. It combines the insights of a strong international grouping of leading academics and pioneering doctoral studies,...
Realignment in American Politics
Toward a Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
To have a voice in shaping government policy has been a goal of the American people since the nation's founding. Yet, government seems even less accessible now than in the past. An increasing rate of incumbency in Congress, the unwieldy committee system that controls legislation, and the decline of political...
Party Responses to Social Movements
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Across the West, the explosion of social movement activity since the late 1960s has constituted a “participatory revolution” that has posed profound challenges for formal political parties. Through an analysis of new interviews, institutional documents, and a host of other largely unexploited...