Political Parties category: 994 books
Sex in Politics
The Primer
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
This book is a primer. It minimizes the descriptions of the science its conclusions are based on. It briefly describes what is essential to human nature, after the complexities of culture are subtracted out. It also only briefly describes how human nature separates on gender roles determined by the sexual...
Party Movements in the United States and Canada
Strategies of Persistence
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2005
Party movements can be described as political organizations that both participate in the electoral process and have social movement qualities. They appear frequently in both Canada and the United States. Many of these movements face huge organizational problems, and yet they display remarkable resilience,...
The Conservative Party and European Integration since 1945
At the Heart of Europe?
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
This volume provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to British policy in Europe.
By exploring the schisms within the party over Europe, through primary source-based history and theoretical discourses of political science, N.J. Crowson gives the reader the best sense of understanding...
The Fascist Party in Wales?
Plaid Cymru, Welsh Nationalism and the Accusation of Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
For decades, accusations have been made that senior figures among Welsh nationalists were sympathetic towards Fascism during the 1930s and the Second World War – such accusations that would sully the name of any political adversary. In this challenging work, Wales’s most prominent political commentator...
Dirty Politics?
New Labour, British Democracy and the Invasion of Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Britain's participation in the Iraq war defines one of the most tumultuous periods in its political history. Driven by a desire to enhance the influence of the British government on the world stage, the decision to support the US-led invasion has severely disrupted the stability of international relations,...
by Dongtao Qi
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This book is a study of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the Taiwan Independence Movement (TIM) and electoral politics in Taiwan during 2000–2012. It consists of two parts: the first part proposes a movement government framework to understand the fluctuating popular support for the DPP government...
Future Right
Forging a New Republican Majority
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Contrary to those who argue that demographics are political destiny, social trends are transforming identity categories of race, gender, and youth - all of which provide rich opportunities for Republicans to create a new majority. To accomplish this, Republicans will need imagination and political...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The purpose of this volume is to explore the medieval inheritance of modern international relations. Recent years have seen a flourishing of work on the history of international political thought, but the bulk of this has focused on the early modern and modern periods, leaving continuities with...
Islamism, Democracy and Liberalism in Turkey
The Case of the AKP
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) were elected to power in 2002 and since then Turkish politics has undergone considerable change. This book is a comprehensive analysis of the AKP, in terms not just of its ideological agenda, but also of its social basis and performance in office in the main...
Underdog Politics
The Minority Party in the U.S. House of Representatives
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
In the first comprehensive study of the subject in decades, political scholar Matthew Green disputes the conventional belief that the minority party in the U.S. House of Representatives is an unimportant political player. Examining the record of the House minority party from 1970 to the present, and...
The Liberty Party, 1840-1848
Antislavery Third-Party Politics in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
In early 1840, abolitionists founded the Liberty Party as a political outlet for their antislavery beliefs. A mere eight years later, bolstered by the increasing slavery debate and growing sectional conflict, the party had grown to challenge the two mainstream political factions in many areas. In...
When Victory Is Not an Option
Islamist Movements in Arab Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Throughout the Arab world, Islamist political movements are joining the electoral process. This change alarms some observers and excites other. In recent years, electoral opportunities have opened, and Islamist movements have seized them. But those opportunities, while real, have also been sharply...
Ecological Politics
For Survival and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Rejection of politics is deep and widespread. Even sincere and responsible individuals who practice it hold their nose while doing so. Yet politics must be practiced, and well, if the planet and the people are to survive. A clue for our future success as a species lies in the fact that ecology has...
Republican Theology
The Civil Religion of American Evangelicals
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
White evangelicals occupy strange property on the ideological map in America, exhibiting a pronounced commitment to the principle of limited government, and yet making a significant exception for issues relating to personal morality - an exception many observers take to be paradoxical at best. Explanations...