Political Parties category: 994 books
The Ulster Unionist Party
Country Before Party?
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
The Ulster Unionist Party: Country Before Party? uses unprecedented access to the party that dominated Northern Ireland politics for decades to assess the reasons for its decline and to analyse whether it can recover. Having helped produce the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, the Ulster Unionist Party...
by Paul G. Cornell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
The period of the union between the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada which preceded the general federation of the British North American provinces in 1867 is a fruitful field of investigation for students of Canadian politics and history, for from it stem many of our political traditions. Professor...
Covenant of Liberty
The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Today's Tea Party activists are motivated by the same ideological desires as our nation's Founding Fathers, argues Michael Patrick Leahy in this illuminating work of political history.
Today's political class—in both parties and at all levels of government—shows a blatant disregard for...
The Red and the Blue
The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history of the birth of political tribalism in the 1990s—one that brings critical new understanding to our current political landscape from Clinton to Trump
In The Red and the Blue, cable news star and acclaimed journalist Steve...
The Great Game of Politics
Why We Elect, Whom We Elect
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
From our nation's inception there has been a constant dynamic of tension between those political philosophies that we have labeled the left and the right, despite the fact that the vast majority of American voters really fall into the category of moderates. During the early years, the shifts between...
Partisan Publics
Communication and Contention across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
During the 1980s and 1990s, Brazil struggled to rebuild its democracy after twenty years of military dictatorship, experiencing financial crises, corruption scandals, political protest, and intense electoral contention. In the midst of this turmoil, Ann Mische argues in this remarkable book, youth...
After the Third Way
The Future of Social Democracy in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
The social democratic parties were once the strongest political forces in Europe. Today, however, they appear disorientated and rudderless, crucially lacking the ideological, intellectual and organisational vitality which underpinned their strength in the post-war political landscape.
Electorally...
by Susan Booysen
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
The African National Congress is light years beyond the liberation movement of old. It remains a juggernaut, but its control and dominance are no longer watertight. The ANC lives the contradictions of weaknesses, cracks and factions while retaining its colossal status. As a party-movement it draws...
by Jan-Jan Joubert
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
THE ANC RECEIVED a bloody nose in the 2016 local elections, when it lost three major metros to the opposition. Will the fractured ruling party be able to reunite under Cyril Ramaphosa and gain a majority at the polls in 2019? Or could the DA and the EFF overcome their vast ideological divide to oust...
The Liberal Unionist Party
A History
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
The Liberal Unionist party was one of the shortest-lived political parties in British history. It was formed in 1886 by a faction of the Liberal party, led by Lord Hartington, which opposed Irish home rule. In 1895, it entered into a coalition government with the Conservative party and in 1912, it...
Chronicling Obama
Our First Media-Elected President
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
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CHRONICLING OBAMA
Deanna Drab is a true American who is giving of her time and passion to express the outrage and concerns that many of us feel about President Obama and the "give-a-way" Congress ....
Dave DAntoni
Florida
"As sunlight cuts through darkness,...
Guardian Angel
My Journey from Leftism to Sanity
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Guardian Angel is that rare memoir that grabs you by the shoulders with an urgency that screams, “PAY ATTENTION!” It leaps off the page with an immediacy and relevance that few books achieve.
Beginning with her solitary childhood in London, it took years for Melanie Phillips to understand...
by James R. Soukup, Clifton McCleskey, Harry Holloway
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Here is the first attempt by scholars to make a comprehensive analysis of voting patterns in Texas. Examining the results of fourteen elections from 1946 through 1962 and organizing a vast fund of statistics relative to Texas political parties and voters, the authors have laid a solid groundwork for...
More Women Can Run
Gender and Pathways to the State Legislatures
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Women remain dramatically underrepresented in elective office, including in entry-level political offices. While they enjoy the freedom to stand for office and therefore have an equal legal footing with men, this persistent gender imbalance raises pressing questions about democratic legitimacy, the...