Political Parties category: 994 books
The Only Constant Is Change
Technology, Political Communication, and Innovation Over Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Over the course of American political history, political elites and organizations have often updated their political communications strategies in order to achieve longstanding political communication goals in more efficient or effective ways. But why do successful innovations occur when they do, and...
Asymmetric Politics
Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Why do Republican politicians promise to rein in government, only to face repeated rebellions from Republican voters and media critics for betraying their principles? Why do Democratic politicians propose an array of different policies to match the diversity of their supporters, only to become mired...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Democracy requires conversations about how its practice can be improved. This is an enduring theme in American politics, and demands for change in how we conduct elections are highly salient today. The crisis of the 2000 presidential election generated demands for changes in election rules, but the...
AAP and Down
The Rise and Fall of the Aam Aadmi Party
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
‘In the first NC meeting after AAP’s creation, Arvind had said: “This party is not the property of 300 founding members but of the lakhs and crores of people in this country.” This refreshing stance shifted over time, got corrupted by power . . . till, one day, Arvind told me: I do not want...
Can Labour Win?
The Hard Road to Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
After its disastrous defeat in 2015, Labour is at grave risk of throwing away the 2020 general election. The party has to understand why it suffered such a devastating defeat and learn crucial lessons if it is to recover. The reasons appear obvious enough: the British public did not believe that Ed...
John G. Gunnell
History, Discourses and Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
John Gunnell has compelled political theorists to rethink their relation to political science, the history of political thought, the philosophy of social science and political reality. His thinking has been shaped by encounters with Heidegger and Plato, Wittgenstein and Austin, the Berkeley School...
Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
Politics, Justice, Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Hanna Fenichel Pitkin has made key contributions to the field of political philosophy, pushing forward and clarifying the ways that political theorists think about action as the exercise of political freedom. In so doing, she has offered insightful studies of the problems of modern politics that theorists...
Basic Brown
My Life and Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
**To The Washington Post, he's "The Last Political Showman of the 20th Century."
Bill Clinton has called him "the real Slick Willie."
Ronald Reagan's secretary of state George Shultz called this famously liberal politician "a man of his word" and endorsed his successful candidacy for...
Theory of the Political Subject
Void Universalism II
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Together these two companion volumes develop an innovative theory of world politics, grounded in the reinterpretation of the concepts of ‘world’ and ‘politics’ from an ontological perspective.
Theory of the Political Subject continues the project of reconstruction of political universalism...
by Janelle S. Wong
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
As immigration from Asia and Latin America reshapes the demographic composition of the U.S., some analysts have anticipated the decline of conservative white evangelicals’ influence in politics. Yet, Donald Trump captured a larger share of the white evangelical vote in the 2016 election than any...
Hart and Soul
Gary Hart's New Hampshire Odyssey and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Stunning Political Upset. The long forgotten story of Gary Hart's 1984 stunning upset victory over Walter Mondale in the New Hampshire Democratic primary is much more than a political story. It is the moving story of ordinary people out to change the world and one man who inspired them to try.
New...
The New Leviathan
How the Left-Wing Money-Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
At a time when the national political debate is about inequality and fairness, bestselling author David Horowitz and coauthor Jacob Laksin have written an unsettling book about the distribution of power in America. Thoroughly researched and amply documented, The New Leviathan overturns the conventional...
by Steven P. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
While spreading the gospel around the world through his signature crusades, internationally renowned evangelist Billy Graham maintained a visible and controversial presence in his native South, a region that underwent substantial political and economic change in the latter half of the twentieth century....
America at Risk
Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
America at Risk gathers original essays by a distinguished and bipartisan group of writers and intellectuals to address a question that matters to Americans of every political persuasion: what are some of the greatest dangers facing America today? The answers, which range from dwindling political...