Political Parties category: 994 books
Lines in the Sand
Congressional Redistricting in Texas and the Downfall of Tom DeLay
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The events of 2003 in Texas were important to the political history of this country. Congressman Tom DeLay led a Republican effort to gerrymander the state's thirty-two congressional districts to defeat all ten of the Anglo Democratic incumbents and to elect more Republicans; Democratic state lawmakers...
Poison Tea
How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Invented the Tea Party and Captured the GOP
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
“Poison Tea shines a spotlight on the shadowy Koch brother network and reveals hidden connections between the tobacco industry, the reclusive billionaire brothers, and the Tea Party movement. It’s a major story that for too long has been underreported and poorly understood.”—REP. HENRY WAXMAN,...
by Lorelei Moosbrugger
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Where politics is dominated by two large parties, as in the United States, politicians should be relatively immune to the influence of small groups. Yet narrow interest groups often win private benefits against majority preferences and at great public expense. Why? The “vulnerability thesis” is that...
The Populist Radical Right
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The populist radical right is one of the most studied political phenomena in the social sciences, counting hundreds of books and thousands of articles. This is the first reader to bring together the most seminal articles and book chapters on the contemporary populist radical right in western democracies....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Since the 1990s, there has been a growing concern about the resurgence of extremist and radical movements in the Western world. Although a variety of challenges to the liberal democratic order have emerged, the main focus of concern among academics, policy-makers and practitioners within Europe and...
Emerging Trends in Indian Politics
The Fifteenth General Election
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
This study presents 13 articles interrogating themes likely to impinge on India’s 15th general elections in 2009. These were written following intense discussion between the contributors and use available data as well as original data and analysis.
The significance of the analyses goes beyond...
The Change Election
Money, Mobilization, and Persuasion in the 2008 Federal Elections
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
The 2008 election was an extraordinary event that represented change at many levels. The candidates’ innovative campaigns changed how funds were raised, how voters were mobilized, and how messages were communicated through advertising and the internet. Parties and interest groups played their own...
by Joshua D. Farrington
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee declared, "Somebody had to stay in the Republican Party and fight." As Joshua Farrington recounts in his comprehensive history, Lee was one of many black Republican leaders...
The Evolution of Japan's Party System
Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
In August 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won a crushing victory over the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), thus bringing to an end over fifty years of one-party dominance. Around the world, the victory of the DPJ was seen as a radical break with Japan's past. However, this dramatic political...
by Daniel A. Amerson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
An Intimate Study of the Right"Why are right-wingers getting in the way of progress?""Why can't the 'right' just shut up and get with the times?""Why are right-wingers so certain of themselves?""If the right-wingers had never existed, then the world would be such a great place."If you've ever...
German Perspectives on Right-Wing Extremism
Challenges for Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This book discusses right-wing extremism by analysing Germanophone research on this topic for the first time in English, including unique survey data from Germany and Austria. Highlighting how questions of terminology can become complicated when country cases are compared, the authors analyse theoretical...
Gender and the Liberal Democrats
Representing women
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Women and the Liberal Democrats is a timely and original exploration of women's representation and the third party in UK politics. Based on extensive research, it is the first comprehensive gendered analysis of the Liberal Democrats and the research highlights specific institutional factors within...
The New NDP
Moderation, Modernization, and Political Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
The New NDP is the definitive account of the evolution of the New Democratic Party’s political marketing strategy in the early twenty-first century. In 2011, the federal NDP achieved its greatest electoral success – becoming the official opposition. The moderation of its ideology and modernization...
by David Daley
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
David Daley’s “extraordinarily timely” (New York Times Book Review) account uncovers the fundamental rigging of our House of Representatives and state legislatures nationwide.
Lauded as a “compelling” (The New Yorker) and “eye-opening tour of a process that many Americans never...