Political Parties category: 994 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
This book investigates how liberal parties have evolved over time as a party family, in a comparative perspective. Through a discussion of the applicability of the concept of party family to liberal parties, it gives a better picture of the development, challenges, and opportunities for liberal parties...
Money, Power, and Ideology
Political Parties in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Are political parties the weak link in Indonesia's young democracy? More pointedly, do they form a giant cartel to suck patronage resources from the state? Indonesian commentators almost invariably brand the country's parties as corrupt, self-absorbed, and elitist, while most scholars argue that they...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2018
The implications of the personalization of politics are necessarily widespread and can be found across many different aspects of contemporary democracies. Personalization should influence the way campaigns are waged, how voters determine their preferences, how officials (e.g., MPs) and institutions...
Party Change, Recent Democracies, and Portugal
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This book offers a critical overview on the literature on party change and provides original data on several dimensions of party organizations, focusing in particular on Portuguese political parties. The Portuguese case study will be used to illustrate how political parties evolve and the main differences...
Political Leadership, Parties and Citizens
The personalisation of leadership
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Social structure may historically have been of primary importance in accounting for the attitudes and behaviour of many citizens, but now changes in social structure have diminished the role played by class and religious affiliation, whilst the significance of personality in political leadership has...
Green Parties, Green Future
From Local Groups to the International Stage
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Over the past four decades the world has seen a 'Green awakening'. Green parties have been elected to parliaments and councils all over the world, and in many cases have played a part in national and local government. A common set of Green priorities has been promoted by Green internationalisation...
Democratic Dilemmas
Why democracies ban political parties
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This book examines how democratic communities resolve dilemmas posed by anti-system parties or, more specifically, the question of why democracies take the grave decision to ban political parties. On the one hand, party bans may ‘protect’ democracies, usually from groups deemed to undermine the...
Institutionalisation of Political Parties
Comparative Cases
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
This edited collection builds directly upon the recently published book by Harmel, Svåsand, and Mjelde (Institutionalisation (and De-Institutionalisation) of Right-Wing Protest Parties: The Progress Parties in Denmark and Norway) and applies their conceptual framework to a wide range of additional...
by Torcuato Di Tella
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The general perception of modern Latin American political institutions emphasizes a continuing and random process of disorder and crisis, continually out of step with other regions in their progress toward democracy and prosperity. In "History of Political Parties in Twentieth-Century Latin America,"...
Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems
Learning to Lose
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
This is a path-breaking study by leading scholars of comparative politics examining the internal transformations of dominant parties in both authoritarian and democratic settings. The principle question examined in this book is what happens to dominant political parties when they lose or face the...
Why Americans Don't Join the Party
Race, Immigration, and the Failure (of Political Parties) to Engage the Electorate
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Two trends are dramatically altering the American political landscape: growing immigration and the rising prominence of independent and nonpartisan voters. Examining partisan attachments across the four primary racial groups in the United States, this book offers the first sustained and systematic...
The Left Unraveled
Social Democracy & the New Left Challenge in Britain & West Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In the early 1980s both the British Labour Party and the West German Social Democrats (SPD), confronted with serious internal challenges from the political left, experienced an erosion of support that resulted in the emergence of new political parties—the British Social Democratic Party and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Canadian Parties in Transition examines the transformation of party politics in Canada and the possible shape the party system might take in the near future. With chapters written by an outstanding team of political scientists, the book presents a multi-faceted image of party dynamics, electoral behaviour,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
This book examines the development of party politics in the region of Western Balkans, describing party politics and analyzing inter-ethnic or inter-party cooperation and competition.
Beginning with a thematic overview of the electoral systems and their link to the party systems, the authors...