Political Parties category: 994 books
Lobbying the New President
Interests in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Presidential transitions offer the chance for new ideas, policies, and people to inhabit the White House. Transitions have triggered policy change for decades and eager interest groups have sought ways to capitalize on this often chaotic phase of US politics. President-Elect Barack Obama declared...
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The Rise of the Greens
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Who are the Greens, where do they come from and where are they going? In the wake of the Cunningham by-election and the Tasmanian results Amanda Lohrey, novelist and political thinker, looks at the philosophical background of the Greens, the history of the campaigns to save the wilderness and the election...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This volume, the first scholarly study of Labour and the left in the age of Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock, opens up a whole new area of historical inquiry, and demonstrates why the 1980s political inheritance has become timely once more.
A House Divided
What Would We Have to Give Up to Get the Political System We Want?
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Every American is affected by the divisions and outrage that prevent us from making progress on urgent problems. This issue guide is designed to help people deliberate together about how we should approach the issue. These are difficult questions, and there are no easy answers:
Should we require...
by Joseph M. Hoeffel
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
A dedicated politician who has served as a congressman and state legislator defines the formidable challenge for progressives after the November 2016 election—and explains how to bring back leaders focused on working in the broad center of politics in order to get things done for the people.
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Angels in the Machinery
Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 1997
Angels in the Machinery offers a sweeping analysis of the centrality of gender to politics in the United States from the days of the Whigs to the early twentieth century. Author Rebecca Edwards shows that women in the U.S. participated actively and influentially as Republicans, Democrats, and leaders...
by Seth Millstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
One may think that Donald Trump knows what he’s talking about. After all, the man-as he’ll remind you at every opportunity-has made a whopping $4 million as an entrepreneur and is far ahead of his competitors in the race to become the republican nominee for the 2016 presidential election. He’s...
The Many Faces of Tolerance
Attitudes toward Diversity in Poland
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
This book presents a systematic account on Poles’ attitudes toward ethnic, religious, political, and sexual minorities. It investigates Poland’s reputation as an intolerant, anti-Semitic, and homophobic country. Counter to a simplistic image of Poland as a hotbed of intolerance, the book shows...
by Barbara from Harlem
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
I was a liberal by default. I asked no questions. I had no answers. I just pulled the lever to vote for Democrats as was expected of me. Most of my fellow Black Americans do not fully understand what the term “liberal” means, or who or what they are voting for. And, in turn they don’t realize...
Hezbollah, the Party of God
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Sheikh Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah, the 'Party of God' Statement of purpose
Hizbullah and Dialogue. Hezbollah
Hassan Nasrallah
Shia Islam
History of Hezbollah
South Lebanon conflict (1982–2000) Ideology of Hezbollah
Hezbollah foreign relations...
by Heinz Duthel
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair Yo, Blair Tony Blair's close relationship with Rupert Murdoch and the Russian oligarch Russians resident in London include Roman Ambramovich, Boris Berezovksy and Leonard Blavatnik..
The Geneva Conventions are a treaty that represent a legal basis for International...
No Holding Back
The 1980 John B. Anderson Presidential Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
No Holding Back tells the story of John Anderson's 1980 presidential campaign. Anderson gave up a safe seat in the House of Representatives, a position in the Republican leadership, and a likely nomination for a Senate seat to run what every expert considered a hopeless race for the GOP presidential...
by Nigel Copsey
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Anti-fascism has long been one of the most active and dynamic areas of radical protest and direct action. Yet it is an area of struggle and popular resistance that remains largely unexplored by historians, sociologists and political scientists.
Fully revised and updated from its earlier edition,...
Class, Party, Revolution
A Socialist Register Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Since beginning publication in1964, The Socialist Register has been one of the most important sources of engaged, critical, and influential theoretical interventions on the socialist left. Released as an annual with a focus on publishing rigorous, sustained pieces that take up particular themes, it...