Political Parties category: 994 books
by S Nihal Singh
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
A long-term observer and analyst of the Indian political scene takes a hard look at theNarendra Modi phenomenon.S. Nihal Singh believes that the rise of Modi marks a sharp break from more than six decadesof political consensus. While Atal Behari Vajpayee’s six years of power at the head of acoalition...
Looking for the Light on the Hill
modern Labor's challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Today, the Australian Labor Party is in crisis. Reduced to minority government after just one term, and at rock bottom in the opinion polls, the party seems to be at a defining moment in its history. The perception of the federal government is that it can’t deliver, can’t be trusted, can’t communicate...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
In 2011, on the cusp of its centenary year, the Labour Party recorded its greatest ever electoral success, with 37 TDs elected and a President. In doing so the party has succeeded, temporarily at least, in breaking free from the old two-and-a-half party system. But, why, for its first century, did...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
As the party that has won wars, reversed recessions and held prime ministerial power more times than any other, the Conservatives have played an undoubtedly crucial role in the shaping of contemporary British society. And yet, the leaders who have stood at its helm - from Sir Robert Peel to David...
New Sinn Féin
Irish Republicanism in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
As a consequence of Sinn Féin's connection with the IRA, the military side of the republican movement has tended to overshadow the political, both in terms of its internal operation and strategic choices and in terms of the attention that it has attracted from scholars, writers and journalists. However,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Neil M. Gunn (1891–1973) has been widely recognized as the most important novelist of the twentieth-century Scottish Literary Renaissance. Most of his novels are still in print and they continue to find in each generation an enthusiastic popular and academic readership. His novels have been adopted...
Cleavages, Institutions and Competition
Understanding Vote Nationalisation in Western Europe (1965-2015)
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The study of how party systems are structured across territorial lines is a crucial research topic for political scientists, and one fraught with consequences for the political system and the democratic process. Cleavages, Institutions and Competition addresses this topic and raises the following...
by Alistair McCleery
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Water and Life pursues the goal of the previous volume, Nation and Nationalism, to bridge the often ivory-tower concerns of academic critics and the interest of a wider public in the works and thought of Neil Gunn, considered the foremost Scottish novelist of the twentieth century. The ‘circle’...
Is God a Racist?
The Right Wing in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
‘God is a racist’—so goes a statement published in the literature of the Western Guard, a white-supremacist, anti-semitic group in Toronto. It is one of a number of racist organizations that have sprung up in Canada since the Second World War. Stanley Barrett points out in this disquieting study...
Fascist in the Family
The Tragedy of John Beckett M.P.
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
John Beckett was a rising political star. Elected as Labour's youngest M.P. in 1924, he was constantly in the news and tipped for greatness.
But ten years later he was propaganda chief for Mosley’s fascists, and one of Britain’s three best known anti-Semites.
Yet his mother, whom...
The New Politics of the Old South
An Introduction to Southern Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
The New Politics of the Old South, Sixth Edition is available August 2017. Paperback ISBN 9781538100158
Now in its fifth edition, The New Politics of the Old South is the best and most comprehensive analysis and history of political behaviors and shifting demographics in America’s southern...
by William Gallacher
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Communism is one of the major political forces in the modern world and the basis for government in sovereign states. It therefore seems proper that a statement of the Case for Communism should be added to the numerious cases for Labor and Conservatism already published. Mr. William Gallacher,...
Cosmopolitan Government in Europe
Citizens and Entrepreneurs in Postnational Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
The invocation of ‘the market’ has been omnipresent in media discussions of ‘crisis Europe’. On the one hand, ‘the market’ is presented as that to which EU member states must collectively respond. It is the very purpose of a post-national government and that which dictates individual and...
Farmers in Rebellion
The Rise and Fall of the Southern Farmers Alliance and People's Party in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
The years after the Civil War brought struggle to the Southern farmer as the economic mainstay of the South—cotton—steadily dropped in price. Prompted by hard times, farmers in Lampasas County, Texas, gathered in 1877 to discuss what could be done. From these modest origins emerged the National Farmers...