Political Parties category: 994 books
The rise of the Right
English nationalism and the transformation of working-class politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The shock Brexit result highlighted a worrying trend: underemployed white men and women who have seen their standard of living fall, their communities disintegrate and their sense of value, function and inclusion diminish, desperately want a mainstream political party to defend their interests. However,...
by Tom Bevan, Carl M. Cannon
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Real Clear Politics’ first in a series of in-depth looks at the 2012 campaign.
With unsurpassed access to the White House, Republican candidates, and their respective staffs, Election 2012: The Battle Begins will give readers a riveting behind the scenes, real time look at the 2012 campaign,...
by Allan Bonner
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Launched in honour of President Obama's inaugural, this book was written during the most remarkable political season in American history. The author visited all major presidential campaign offices in New York and New Hampshire, attended the presidential debates and was a commentator for PBS and National...
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 1995
Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern American historians,...
American Individualism
How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Margaret Hoover has been a lifelong member of the Republican Party. She grew up a self-described “ditto head.” She worked in the White House for President George W. Bush. Today she is a political commentator for Fox News, where, as one of Bill O’Reilly’s Culture Warriors, she regularly champions...
Democracy Ltd
How Money and Donations have Corrupted British Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
WELCOME TO THE MURKY WORLD OF POLITICAL DONATIONS. Big business, eccentric loners, lobbyists, fraudsters, senior trade unionists, and dodgy wheeler-dealers have all been rubbing shoulders with the most senior politicians in the country and they often expect something in return for their money....
by Ashley Mote
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
A full, frank and controversial account of five years fighting the EU from within the castle walls. The first ever blow-by-blow memoirs of a British MEP.
Sensational new evidence wrung out of the EU reveals, claims the author, industrial-scale institutionalised looting of British taxpayers’...
German Federalism in Transition
Reforms in a Consensual State
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Federalism in Germany has come to be viewed as the root cause of the country’s current economic and social malaise. The federal political system which contributed enormously to the economic success and political stability of West Germany is now said to be outdated, overburdened and unworkable. German...
Value Vote Ballot
the Barnes Theory of Voting
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Human society is constantly evolving, but is democracy keeping pace?
Most citizens of today’s democracies spend 12 years in public schools. Humanity is more educated now than at any time in history. Yet we still vote as though most of our citizens are illiterate.
The present ballot...
Contemporary Politics in Australia
Theories, Practices and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Contemporary Politics in Australia provides a lively and wide-ranging introduction to the study of Australian politics. Written by a diverse range of experts, the book offers a comprehensive overview of current theories, debates and research in Australian political science and looks forward to new...
In the Lion's Mouth
Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Following the collapse of Reconstruction in 1877, African Americans organized a movement--distinct from the white Populist movement--in the South and parts of the Midwest for economic and political reform: Black Populism. Between 1886 and 1898, tens of thousands of black farmers, sharecroppers, and...
by Robert Mason
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In recent years historians have paid substantial attention to the origins of modern political conservatism and the record of the Nixon administration in building a Republican majority in the late twentieth century. In Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority, Robert Mason analyzes Nixon's response...
Members of the European Parliament Online
The Use of Social Media in Political Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
The appearance of political marketing and campaigning on social media is a relatively new phenomenon, whose major advantages are seen in the rapid transportation of information through the Internet and the possibilities for large numbers of people to connect. This is especially significant for politics...
The Influence Machine
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate Capture of American Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
An illuminating history and groundbreaking investigation tracing how a single trade organization turned itself into the most dangerous political weapon in America
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When Americans hear the words “Chamber of Commerce,” many still think of the local business associations that spruce up Main...