Political Parties category: 994 books
Party-System Collapse
The Roots of Crisis in Peru and Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Most party systems are relatively stable over time. Yet in the 1980s and 1990s, established party systems in Peru and Venezuela broke down, leading to the elections of outsider Alberto Fujimori and anti-party populist Hugo Chavez. Focusing on these two cases, this book explores the causes of systemic...
Informal Coalitions and Policymaking in Latin America
Ecuador in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
This book explains how presidents achieve market-oriented reforms in a contentious political environment. Using an impressive amount of quantitative and qualitative empirical evidence, most of which is reported for the first time, Mejía Acosta argues that presidents in Ecuador adopted significant...
The Political Logic of Poverty Relief
Electoral Strategies and Social Policy in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Poverty relief programs are shaped by politics. The particular design which social programs take is to a large extent determined by the existing institutional constraints and politicians' imperative to win elections. The Political Logic of Poverty Relief places elections and institutional design at...
Treason
Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2003
“Liberals’ loyalty to the United States is off-limits as a subject of political debate. Why is the relative patriotism of the two parties the only issue that is out of bounds for rational discussion?”
In a stunning follow-up to her number one bestseller Slander, leading conservative pundit...
Common Sense for the Common Good
Libertarianism as the End of Two-Party Tyranny
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
With the contentious 2016 U.S. presidential election cycle spinning into its final phases, only one thing seems clear: the American people are less than satisfied with the two major political parties’ candidates.
Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party candidate for president and former two-term...
Polarized
Making Sense of a Divided America
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Many continue to believe that the United States is a nation of political moderates. In fact, it is a nation divided. It has been so for some time and has grown more so. This book provides a new and historically grounded perspective on the polarization of America, systematically documenting how and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2005
The existence of noticeable 'unified' parties is central to the theory and practice of democracy in general, and to parliamentary democracy in particular. However, legislative studies scholars have good reason to cease treating parties as monolithic, unitary actors, for they evidently are not. The first step in this direction is to ask why one of t
Making up the Numbers
Smaller Parties and Independents in Irish Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In this work, the author applies his first-hand experience of both the potential and the limitations of minor parties in government and in coalition. At a time when global politics is being reshaped, our understanding of the results of who we put in power has never been more vital. This book powerfully contributes to that understanding.
Politics on a Human Scale
The American Tradition of Decentralism
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
In Politics on a Human Scale, Jeff Taylor examines political decentralization in the United States, including agrarianism, states’ rights, the abandonment of the decentralist impulse by the national leadership of the Democratic and Republican parties, and the dissident tradition on the contemporary...
Unstable Majorities
Polarization, Party Sorting, and Political Stalemate
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
America is "currently fighting its second Civil War." Partisan politics are "ripping this country apart." The 2016 election "will go down as the most acrimonious presidential campaign of all." Such statements have become standard fare in American politics. In a time marked...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The 2006 elections constitute a major redrawing of the political map in Israel due to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s exit from the Likud party and his creation of a new centre party, Kadima. Following Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, Sharon formed Kadima taking many former Likud MKs, and...
by Casse Mudde
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
A comprehensive and detailed analysis of the five main parties of the extreme right in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Using primary research - including internal party documents - the author concludes that the core ideology of these parties is xenophobic nationalist.
Politics without Power
The National Party Committees
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The national committees of the major political parties in the United States are symbols of party government. They carry forward a national heritage of peaceful change in national politics and administration. National committees are substitutes for party ideologies, yet they are pretty much headless,...
The New Right in the New Europe
Czech Transformation and Right-Wing Politics, 1989–2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
This book considers the emergence of centre right parties in Eastern Europe following the fall of communism, focusing primarily on the case of the Czech Republic.
Although the country with the strongest social democratic traditions in Eastern Europe, the Czech Republic also produced the region’s...