Political Parties category: 994 books
Friend or Foe? Dominant party systems in southern Africa
Insights from the developing world
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Within southern Africa, there has been a steady increase in the number of dominant party systems — systems where one party dominates over a prolonged period in an ostensibly democratic system with regular elections and multiple parties participating. This party system has replaced the one-party...
Decision-Making Reform in Japan
The DPJ’s Failed Attempt at a Politician-Led Government
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
In the election to the House of Representatives in 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) almost tripled the number of its lower house members by winning 308 seats. It subsequently formed a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party and the People’s New Party. The new ruling party...
by Mark Seddon, Francis Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Post-war Labour England wasn’t a bad place to live, but after Labour’s 2015 election defeat, the prospect of a healthier, happier and fairer country seemed more remote than ever.
Who would have predicted that career backbencher and serial rebel Jeremy Corbyn would be the one to breathe...
Deeply Divided
Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
By many measures--commonsensical or statistical--the United States has not been more divided politically or economically in the last hundred years than it is now. How have we gone from the striking bipartisan cooperation and relative economic equality of the war years and post-war period to the extreme...
Hopes and Fears
Trump, Clinton, the voters and the future
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Donald Trump's election as President of the United States confounded the pundits and crowned a year of political surprises.
In Hopes And Fears, Lord Ashcroft sets out in compelling detail why America sent Trump to the White House. With the rigorous research and analysis that is his hallmark,...
Euroscepticism in Contemporary British Politics
Opposition to Europe in the Conservative and Labour Parties since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Anthony Forster argues that euroscepticism, in addition to being a political stance, displays the seeds of becoming a new faith. Through a detailed analysis of British post-war politics, he shows the development of a core set of beliefs, a history of persecution, displays of moral rectitude in opposing...
New British Fascism
Rise of the British National Party
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
The British National Party (BNP) is the most successful far right party in British political history. Based on unprecedented access to the party and its members, this book examines the rise of the BNP and explains what drives some citizens to support far right politics. It is essential reading for...
British National Party
Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This book examines the recent development of the far right in Britain, with a particular focus on the British National Party (BNP) the most electorally successful far right party in British history. It brings fresh perspectives to our understanding of the BNP in order to make a significant contribution...
Where the Party Rules
The Rank and File of China's Communist State
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In most non-democratic countries, today governing forty-four percent of the world population, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting with conventional notions that authoritarian regime parties serve to contain elite conflict and manipulate electoral-legislative processes, this...
Proportional Representation on Trial
New Zealand's Second MMP Election and After
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Tracing the transition of a democracy as it moves in between electoral systems, this book details the current and past public opinion surrounding New Zealand's 1999 election. As a result of the second election under the Mixed-Member Proportional (MMP) system, New Zealand elected a change in government,...
Coalition
The Inside Story of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
When David Cameron and Nick Clegg stepped out into the rose garden at No. 10 to launch the first coalition government since the Second World War, it was amid a sea of uncertainty. Some doubted whether the coalition could survive a full term - or even a full year. Five years later, this bold departure...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This truly comparative volume examines the "life cycle" of party governments in Europe from 1990 onwards, and analyses its role and function in contemporary European parliamentary democracies.
The life and the performance of party governments in Europe became more and more volatile...
Inside the Greens
The Origins and Future of the Party, the People and the Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2019
A penetrating examination of the history and future of the Australian Greens
The re-election of a Coalition government, after a lost decade of policy backflips and leadership volatility, has redrawn the political landscape. With a record quarter of voters abandoning the major parties at the...
Voting to Kill
How 9/11 Launched the Era of Republican Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In Voting to Kill, author Jim Geraghty offers a comprehensive look at why recent elections have given the Republican Party its greatest political success since the 1920s. Despite a lot of talk about values, problems within the GOP, "red state culture," and the slow but vital progress in Iraq, the...