Political Parties category: 994 books
Absorbing the Blow
Populist Parties and their Impact on Parties and Party Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
The significance of populist parties and their presence in party systems is undeniable. Parties like the Dutch Freedom Party, the French National Front, and the Five Star Movement in Italy rank among the largest political parties in their party systems. Absorbing the Blowexamines the effect of populist...
The Parties in Court
American Political Parties under the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
American political parties have long existed in a gray area of constitutional law because of their uncertain status. Parties in this country are neither fully public nor fully private entities. This constitutional ambiguity has meant that political parties are considered private organizations for...
Leftism Reinvented
Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the market’s tendencies to produce inequality. But in the 1990s they gave up on protection, asking voters to adapt to a...
The Formation of National Party Systems
Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Pradeep Chhibber and Ken Kollman rely on historical data spanning back to the eighteenth century from Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States to revise our understanding of why a country's party system consists of national or regional parties. They demonstrate that the party systems in...
The British Party System
An introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
The history of British political parties tells of change and continuity. But, how and why?
This textbook continues to provide the best introduction currently available on the British political party system, explaining the history, structure, actors and policies of both the main political parties...
How Parties Win
Shaping the Irish Political Arena
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
In recent decades, Ireland’s three major political parties have maintained over 80 percent of the vote in the face of rapidly shifting social divisions, political values, and controversial issues, though not by giving voice to particular interest groups or reacting to issues of the day. Rather,...
Why Parties?
A Second Look
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, Why Parties? has become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the party system has undergone some radical changes. In this landmark book, now rewritten for the new millennium, John...
POLITICAL PARTIES
A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
First published in German in 1911, Robert Michels’ ‘Political Parties’ is a classic of political and social science; it analyses the evolution of oligarchical power structures within political parties and trade unions, particularly those, ostensibly, most committed to egalitarian and democratic...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups is a major new volume that will help scholars assess the current state of scholarship on parties and interest groups and the directions in which it needs to move. Never before has the academic literature on political parties received...
by Moisei Ostrogorski
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties, originally published in 1902, represented the first serious attempt to analyze the consequences of democratic suffrage by a comparative analysis of political systems. As such, Ostrogorski's two-volume study of the party system in Britain and the...
by Jae-Jae Spoon
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
It is often thought that small party survival or failure is a result of institutional constraints, the behavior of large parties, and the choices of individual politicians. Jae-Jae Spoon, in contrast, argues that the decisions made by small parties themselves determine their ability to balance the...
All Tomorrow's Parties
The Changing Face of European Party Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Political parties are continually under pressure, due to changes in societies, technologies and politics as a whole. But at the moment, Europe is on the threshold of a new environment that is changing the face of political parties themselves. The picture has elements both optimistic (concerning the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Our portraits of voters, their relationship to parties, and the behavior of elected party members have changed significantly within the last 10 to 15 years. Characterizations of dealignment and decreased importance of parties have been fairly rapidly replaced by a focus on party polarization. Voters...
The State of the Parties 2018
The Changing Role of Contemporary American Political Parties
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The State of the Parties 2018 brings together leading scholars of parties, elections, and interest groups to provide an indispensable overview of American political parties today. The 2016 presidential election was extraordinary, especially the unexpected nomination and election of Donald Trump to...