Political Parties category: 994 books
Campaign Finance and Political Polarization
When Purists Prevail
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Efforts to reform the U.S. campaign finance system typically focus on the corrupting influence of large contributions. Yet, as Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner argue, reforms aimed at cutting the flow of money into politics have unintentionally favored candidates with extreme ideological...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Alain-G. Gagnon and A. Brian Tanguay continue the work of earlier editions of Canadian Parties in Transition by presenting a multi-faceted image of party dynamics, electoral behaviour, political marketing, and representative democracy, with chapters written by an outstanding team of political scientists....
by S. P. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
From its inception in 2001, the United Russia Party has rapidly developed into a hugely successful, organisationally-complex political party and key component of power. This book provides a much needed analysis on United Russia by exploring the role of the party in the Russian political system, from...
Today's Social Issues: Democrats and Republicans
Democrats and Republicans
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Covering everything from abortion to gun control to immigration, this book explains policies and positions of today's Democratic and Republican parties, giving readers a complete understanding of modern-day American politics and the 2016 presidential race.
• Offers clear, relevant information...
Dangerous Liaisons
Organized Crime and Political Finance in Latin America and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
The relationship between criminal syndicates and politicians has a long history, including episodes even from the earliest years of America's colonies. But while organized crime may not get the headlines it once did in North America, the resurgence of such criminal activity in Latin America, and in...
Communist Parties Revisited
Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
The ruling communist parties of the postwar Soviet Bloc possessed nearly unprecedented power to shape every level of society; perhaps in part because of this, they have been routinely depicted as monolithic, austere, and even opaque institutions. Communist Parties Revisited takes a markedly different...
Understanding Political Participation
Green Party Membership in Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Developing a framework of analysis which enables a detailed empirical investigation of Scottish Green Party membership, this is a detailed assessment of why people become members of a green party. The questions are particularly relevant in the light of declining political participation. Lynn Bennie...
Free Hearts and Free Homes
Gender and American Antislavery Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
By exploring the intersection of gender and politics in the antebellum North, Michael Pierson examines how antislavery political parties capitalized on the emerging family practices and ideologies that accompanied the market revolution.
From the birth of the Liberty party in 1840 through the...
The new working class
How to win hearts, minds and votes
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Recent events such as the Brexit vote and the 2017 general election result highlight the erosion of traditional class identities and the decoupling of class from political identity. The majority of people in the UK still identify as working class, yet no political party today can confidently articulate...
Understanding the Populist Shift
Othering in a Europe in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
During the European elections of 2014, one of the main issues raised by the media was the electoral performance of so called ‘populist parties’. The electorate confirmed its deep dissatisfaction with mainstream political parties, voting for far right parties in parliamentary elections in Northern...
Minority Parties in U.S. Legislatures
Conditions of Influence
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This study of the influence minority parties wield is both a major work of political science scholarship and a timely examination of an issue with real consequences for the functioning of democratic legislatures and the creation of legislation.
Challenging conventional assumptions that the...
Partisans and Partners
The Politics of the Post-Keynesian Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
There’s no question that Americans are bitterly divided by politics. But in Partisans and Partners, Josh Pacewicz finds that our traditional understanding of red/blue, right/left, urban/rural division is too simplistic.
Wheels-down in Iowa—that most important of primary states—Pacewicz...
Party Politics and Decentralization in Japan and France
When the Opposition Governs
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Decentralization is a curious policy for a central government to pursue. If politics is essentially about the struggle for power, why would anyone want to give away the power that one struggled for and won? This book argues that it is precisely party competition in search of power that propels decentralization.
Koichi...
Quarterly Essay 37 What's Right?
The Future of Conservatism in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Where did the Right go wrong? With the departure of George W. Bush and John Howard, conservative parties in the US and Australia entered a period of turmoil. Foreign affairs, economics, the environment – all were issues to be avoided. Most profoundly, conservatives no longer seemed to have a compelling...