Political Parties category: 994 books
Contemporary Japanese Politics
Institutional Changes and Power Shifts
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Decentralized policymaking power in Japan had developed under the reign of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), yet in the1990s, institutional changes fundamentally altered Japan's political landscape. Tomohito Shinoda tracks these developments in the operation of and tensions between Japan's political...
Democrats and Republicans - Rhetoric and Reality
Comparing the Voters in Statistics and Anecdotes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Are Democrats more tolerant than Republicans? Are they more intelligent? Who spends more time at work and who spends more time watching TV? Why are Republicans happier? Who benefits more from Social Security? All of these questions, and many more, are answered in Democrats and Republicans Rhetoric...
by Karen Bojar
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
• As a longtime Democratic Party committeeperson and progressive activist, the author is well positioned to write an analysis of grassroots politics. • The Democratic Party’s National Convention is to be held in Philadelphia in 2016. This will spark national interest in the local Democratic...
by Tim Young
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
I Hate Democrats/I Hate Republicans is a different kind of political commentary.
Tim Young uses his trademark snark and outrageous personal stories to break down how both parties have their failings, and how our political system has been tainted by bias from all sides. He then engages you,...
Quarterly Essay 65 The White Queen
One Nation and the Politics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation.
In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia’s politics of fear, resentment and race. Who votes One Nation, and why? How much of this is due to inequality?...
Quarterly Essay 49 Not Dead Yet
Labor's Post-Left Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
With an election looming and criticism of the ALP now a national pastime, Mark Latham considers the future for Labor. The nation has changed, but can the party?
With wit and insight, Latham reveals an organisation top-heavy with factional bosses protecting their turf. At the same time Labor’s...
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party
Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Here, Michael F. Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written. He offers a panoramic account of the tumultuous antebellum period, a time when a flurry of parties and larger-than-life politicians--Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren, and Henry Clay--struggled...
Barack Obama and the New America
The 2012 Election and the Changing Face of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Larry Sabato, one of the leading experts in American politics, has brought together respected journalists and academics from across the political spectrum to examine every facet of the 2012 election, and what its development and outcome will mean for the nation moving forward. In frank, accessible...
by Daniel A. Amerson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
An Intimate Study of the Left"Why are leftists getting in the way of progress?""Why can't the 'left' just shut up and get with the times?""Why are the left-wingers so certain of themselves?""If the left-wingers had never existed, then the world would be such a great place."If you’ve ever found...
Patriot Acts
What Americans Must Do to Save the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
WHY WE NEED THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
The noise from both Washington and the media is deafening, the deeds of our lawmakers alarming. America needs a break from the posturing and the politicking. We need information: how we got here and where we are headed. Catherine...
The Invention of Party Politics
Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
This ambitious work uncovers the constitutional foundations of that most essential institution of modern democracy, the political party. Taking on Richard Hofstadter's classic The Idea of a Party System, it rejects the standard view that Martin Van Buren and other Jacksonian politicians had the idea...
Do the Poor Count?
Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Latin America’s flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the region. The aim of this economic policy was in part to create the conditions for stable democracy by...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
In the polarized governing environment of American politics today, the problem of leadership becomes ever more pressing and ever more vexed. What defines leadership, what determines its importance and effectiveness, and how does it differ from one sphere of influence to another: these are the questions...
James Madison Rules America
The Constitutional Origins of Congressional Partisanship
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
James Madison Rules America examines congressional party legislative and electoral strategy in the context of our constitutional separation of powers. In a departure from recent books that have described Congress as 'the broken branch' or the 'Second Civil War,' William Connelly argues that partisanship,...