Political Parties category: 994 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Since 2000, more than twenty countries around the world have held elections in which parties that espouse a political agenda based on an Islamic worldview have competed for legislative seats. Islamist Parties and Political Normalization in the Muslim World examines the impact these parties have had...
On the Side of the Angels
An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science. Their governing and electoral functions are among the chief concerns of the field. Yet most political theorists--including democratic theorists--ignore or disparage parties as grubby...
Party Government
American Government in Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
What do we need to know about political parties in order to understand them? In his classic study E. E. Schattschneider delineates six crucial points: A political party is an organized attempt to get control of the government. Parties live in a highly competitive world. The major parties manage to...
American Political Parties
Decline or Resurgence?
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Powerful cross-currents of both decline and resurgence have been affecting American political parties over the past several decades. Is the era of decline that began in the late 1960s over and are the parties in a new era of rebuilding? In what direction are the parties headed and what does it mean...
When Movements Anchor Parties
Electoral Alignments in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Throughout American history, some social movements, such as organized labor and the Christian Right, have forged influential alliances with political parties, while others, such as the antiwar movement, have not. When Movements Anchor Parties provides a bold new interpretation of American electoral...
Fractured Parties
How Recent Elections Have Exposed Weaknesses in American Political Parties
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
America is so ethnically, geographically, socially, and spiritually diverse that a book on party strength in any other country would be less complex. The American state of democracy, however, is a pastiche of culture, economics, and community.
Fractured Parties is a walk through America’s...
Returning to Political Parties?
Partisan Logic and Political Transformations in the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Are Arab parties facing a predicament? Are they paying the price of repression and limited pluralism? Have they become obsolete to the benefit of other political groups and mobilization modes such as communities, tribes, “asabiyyat” or to the disadvantage of non governmental organizations, associations...
Three's a Crowd
The Dynamic of Third Parties, Ross Perot, and Republican Resurgence
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
"A significant contribution to our understanding of minor parties and party system change. The authors develop a new theory and provide strong empirical evidence in support of it. They show that the Perot's candidacy has had a strong and lasting impact on partisan competition in elections.
---Paul...
The Fates of Political Parties
Institutional Crisis, Continuity, and Change in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Political parties in the developing world often face serious electoral crises; from one election to the next, parties can be decisively voted out of national office. What happens to a party that experiences this kind of voter rejection? The literature suggests it will disappear, leaving the party...
Why Parties Matter
Political Competition and Democracy in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Since the founding of the American Republic, the North and South have followed remarkably different paths of political development. Among the factors that have led to their divergence throughout much of history are differences in the levels of competition among the political parties. While the North...
by O. T. Sylvester
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
A timely analysis of political parties in the United States from 1787 to the present. It is little known that political parties were seen in the United States as deleterious to civil society by the founding fathers. This book revisits the viewpoints expressed by the founding fathers about political parties....
The Funding of Political Parties
Where Now?
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
This book explores the problems associated with regulating the funding of political parties and election campaigns in a timely assessment of a topic of great political controversy.
From interest in Obama's capacity to raise vast sums of money, to scandals that have rocked UK and Australian...
by Harold F. Bass Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The constitution that establishes the institutional framework for American national government makes no mention of political parties. Yet for over two centuries, political parties have competed in encouraging, organizing, and directing political activity in the United States. This volume compiles...
The Europeanization of National Political Parties
Power and Organizational Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
This is a detailed exploration of how national political parties have responded to the increasing relevance of European governance.
The Europeanization of National Political Parties is the first empirical study to examine the effects of the European Union on the internal organizational dynamics...