Political Parties category: 994 books
Campaign for President
The Managers Look at 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Every four years following the presidential election, the Institute of Politics at Harvard University convenes a distinguished gathering of campaign managers, media commentators, and interested political observers to reflect on presidential campaign strategies from the earliest primaries through Election...
by Mark D. Brewer, Jeffrey M. Stonecash
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Contemporary American politics is highly polarized, and it is increasingly clear that this polarization exists at both the elite and mass levels. What is less clear is the source of this polarization. Social issues are routinely presented by some as the driver of polarization, while others point to...
Bolivia
Refounding the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
The election of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) to power in Bolivia in 2006 marked a historic break from centuries of foreign domination and indigenous marginalisation. Evo Morales, leader of the MAS, became the first indigenous president of Bolivia.*BR**BR*Kepa Artaraz looks at the Morales' government's...
The Gingrich Senators
The Roots of Partisan Warfare in Congress
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Senate of the mid twentieth century, which was venerated by journalists, historians, and senators alike, is today but a distant memory. Electioneering on the Senate floor, playing games with the legislative process, and questioning your fellow senators' motives have become commonplace. In this...
Truth Bombs
Confronting the Lies Conservatives Believe (To Our Own Demise)
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Why does the Republican Party always seem to betray conservatives in the end? How come Leftists never worry some “squishy” moderate will win Democrat primaries, even though conservatives in the GOP are constantly fighting that battle? Why do GOP leaders typically fight the conservative base harder...
God at the Grassroots 2016
The Christian Right in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
In God at the Grassroots 2016: The Christian Right in American Politics, a distinguished group of political scientists, many of whom have been studying the Christian Right for more than two decades, assess the 2016 elections from the standpoint of religious conservative activism. These elections,...
RIP GOP
How the New America Is Dooming the Republicans
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
A leading pollster and adviser to America’s most important political figures explains why the Republicans will crash in 2020.
For decades the GOP has seen itself in an uncompromising struggle against a New America that is increasingly secular, racially diverse, and fueled by immigration....
The Changing Face of European Identity
A Seven-Nation Study of (Supra)National Attachments
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Drawing upon systematic research using Q Methodology in seven countries - Denmark, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands and Sweden - this volume presents the results of the most extensive effort yet at cross-cultural, subjective assessment of national and supranational identity....
The Republican Workers Party
How the Trump Victory Drove Everyone Crazy, and Why It Was Just What We Needed
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The Republican Workers Party is the future of American presidential politics, says F.H. Buckley. It’s a socially conservative but economically middle-of-the-road party, offering a way back to the land of opportunity where our children will have it better than we did. That is the American Dream,...
by Paul Mattick, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Drawing upon released documents, memoirs and party-history works, the process and impact of the political campaigns in China between 1950 and 1965 is documented. Complete with extensive interviews with Chinese scholars and former officials, the book reviews the findings of the first edition.
Europe's Encounter with Islam
The Secular and the Postsecular
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In the last few years, the Muslim presence in Europe has been increasingly perceived as ‘problematic’. Events such as the French ban on headscarves in public schools, the publication of the so-called ‘Danish cartoons’, and the speech of Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg have...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
This edited collection addresses a number of free speech vs security concerns that are engaged by counter-terrorism law and policy makers across a number of liberal democracies, and explores the delicate balance between free speech and the censoring of views that promote hatred or clash with fundamental...
Where Charles Taylor Went Wrong
A Series of Straight Talks on Former Liberian President Charles Taylor’S Missteps in Liberia and Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
WHERE CHARLES TAYLOR WENT WRONG lays bare the issues and events that culminated in the downfall of a man who remarkably transfi gured Liberia, Africas oldest independent republic. Charles Taylors missteps and failures in Liberia, as well his ill-advised role in Sierra Leone, a country with common...
Production of Postcolonial India and Pakistan
Meanings of Partition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
This work seeks to examine the event and concurrent transition that the inauguration of India and Pakistan as ‘postcolonial’ states in August 1947 constituted and effectuated.
Analysing India and Pakistan together in a parallel and mutually dependant reading, and utilizing primary data...