Political Parties category: 994 books
The Right Talk
How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2011
Political analyst Mark Smith offers the most original and compelling explanation yet of why America has swung to the right in recent decades. How did the GOP transform itself from a party outgunned and outmaneuvered into one that defines the nation's most important policy choices?
Conventional...
Volunteer Tourism in the Global South
Giving Back in Neoliberal Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This work explores the increasingly popular phenomenon of volunteer tourism in the Global South, paying particular attention to the governmental rationalities and socio-economic conditions that valorise it as a noble and necessary cultural practice.
Combining theoretical research with primary...
The Evolving Patterns of Lebanese Politics in Post-Syria Lebanon
The Perceptions of Hizballah among Members of the Free Patriotic Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
This work aims to shed light on the evolution of the Lebanese political arena after the withdrawal of Syrian troops in April 2005 by analyzing the perceptions of Hizballah among members of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), as the alliance between the two groups enters its fourth year. Hizballah is...
Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics
The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Red states, blue states . . . are we no longer the United States? Morris P. Fiorina here examines today’s party system to reassess arguments about party polarization while offering a cogent overview of the American electorate.
Building on the arguments of Fiorina’s acclaimed Culture War?...
GOP GPS
How to Find the Millennials and Urban Voters the Republican Party Needs to Survive
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
**“**A Democrat’s worst nightmare . . . Siegfried makes a compelling case for how the GOP can transform itself into a modern day party with broad appeal” (Jessica Tarlov, political strategist and Fox News commentator).
With the decline of Republican stalwart supporters—Baby Boomers and...
Permanently Blue
How Democrats Can End the Republican Party and Rule the Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
In 2008 Democrats accomplished the political trifecta that had eluded them for more than 40 years: get a progressive president elected and win landslide victories in the House and Senate at the same time. The question is, was that the high point for the party? Or was it just the beginning of a...
Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State
Why Americans Vote the Way They Do - Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide has become symbolic of a culture war that thrives on stereotypes--pickup-driving red-state Republicans who vote based on...
by Rohan Kalyan
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
This book is augmented by an interactive website (neodelhi.net). During research trips to Delhi and Gurgaon between 2008 and 2015 the author produced a multi-media urban archive that includes full color photos, an essay film, ethnographic videos, field notes and more pertaining to the arguments and...
Columbia Rising
Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In Columbia Rising, Bancroft Prize-winning historian John Brooke explores the struggle within the young American nation over the extension of social and political rights after the Revolution. By closely examining the formation and interplay of political structures and civil institutions in the upper...
On the Border of Truth
From Lies, Incorporated
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
In a post-truth political landscape, there is a carefully concealed but ever-growing industry of organized misinformation that exists to create and disseminate lies in the service of political agendas. This is especially true today for immigration reform, which has become severely limited under President...
Quarterly Essay 19 Relaxed and Comfortable
The Liberal Party's Australia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
What is the Liberal Party's core appeal to Australian voters? Has John Howard made a dramatic break with the past, or has he ingeniously modernised the strategies of his party's founder, Sir Robert Menzies? For Judith Brett, the governmeant of John Howard has done what successful Liberal governments...
Trump Talk Presents
10 of Donald Trump's Most Controversial Political Statements--Straight from "The Donald" Himself
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
An unbiased look at Trump talking politics!
Want to know where Trump stands on hot-button issues? Look no further than Trump Talk Presents: 10 of Donald Trump's Most Controversial Political Statements--Straight from "The Donald" Himself. Love him or hate him, Donald Trump is an American phenomenon....
The Social Movement Society
Contentious Politics for a New Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 1997
Is there more social protest now than there was prior to the movement politics of the 1960s, and if so, does it result in a distinctly less civil society throughout the world? If everybody protests, what does protest mean in advanced industrial societies? This volume brings together scholars from...
Understanding Namibia
The Trials of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2015
Since independence in 1990, Namibia has witnessed only one generation with no memory of colonialism - the 'born frees', who voted in the 2009 elections. The anti-colonial liberation movement, SWAPO, dominates the political scene, effectively making Namibia a de facto one-party state dominated by the...