Political Parties category: 994 books
by Leonard Weinberg, Ami Pedahzur, Arie Perliger
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
This book is the definitive guide to the topical issue of the relationship between political parties that embrace the democratic process and terrorist groups which eschew the legal and procedural strictures of democracy.
The fully revised edition continues to provide the most detailed theoretical...
Empowering Progressive Third Parties in the United States
Defeating Duopoly, Advancing Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This ground-breaking collection of writings explores how progressive third parties in the U.S. can become more electorally successful and politically influential. It is the only recently published book that focuses exclusively on how such parties may advance. Their rise may be essential to countering...
Challengers to Duopoly
Why Third Parties Matter in American Two-Party Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Building on the foundational importance of its predecessor (Politics at the Periphery, 1993), Challengers to Duopoly offers an up-to-date overview of the important history of America's third parties and the challenge they represent to the hegemony of the major parties. J. David Gillespie introduces...
The Parties Versus the People
How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
America's political system is dysfunctional. While this is a widely held view, it is a problem that—so far—has proved intractable. After every election, voters discover yet again that political "leaders" are simply quarreling in a never-ending battle between the two warring tribes, the Republicans...
Confronting the Weakest Link
Aiding Political Parties in New Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Beset with persistent problems of self-interest, corruption, ideological incoherence, and narrow electoral majorities, political parties are the weakest link in many democratic transitions around the world. A large and ever-growing number of U.S., European, and multilateral assistance programs seek...
by Donald Green, Bradley Palmquist, Eric Schickler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this, the first major treatment of party identification in twenty years, three political scientists assert that identification with political parties still powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots. Challenging prevailing views, they build a case for the continuing...
by Simone Weil, Czeslaw Milosz
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
An NYRB Classics Original
Simone Weil—philosopher, activist, mystic—is one of the most uncompromising of modern spiritual masters. In “On the Abolition of All Political Parties” she challenges the foundation of the modern liberal political order, making an argument that has particular...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Ireland’s relationship with the European Union has been determined by the behaviour, actions and discourse of political parties. This book examines this impact through an in-depth analysis of the Europeanization of party politics in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
First, it...
The State of the Parties
The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. This essential party primer includes: new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America’s political parties and the...
Politics as Development
The Emergence of Political Parties in Nineteenth-Century Serbia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Nineteenth-century Serbia was an economically and socially backward country with an urban population of approximately 3 percent and a literacy rate in the countryside of less than 10 percent. Still, during that century it created a functioning democracy with a constitution, independent courts, political...
Party Brands in Crisis
Partisanship, Brand Dilution, and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Why have so many established political parties across Latin America collapsed in recent years? Party Brands in Crisis offers an explanation that highlights the effect of elite actions on voter behavior. During the 1980s and 1990s, political elites across the region implemented policies inconsistent...
Party System Change in South India
Political Entrepreneurs, Patterns and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book provides a systematic exploration of party system change. By applying the concept of political entrepreneurship and using a detailed case study of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, it demonstrates how party leaders can exercise their agency and drive party system change.
Recent...
Why Not Parties?
Party Effects in the United States Senate
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Recent research on the U.S. House of Representatives largely focuses on the effects of partisanship, but the strikingly less frequent studies of the Senate still tend to treat parties as secondary considerations in a chamber that gives its members far more individual leverage than congressmen have....
Radical or Redundant?
Minor Parties in Irish Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
While the type of small political party In Ireland has varied, their fate, it seems, has not. Although some enjoy a brief time in the sun, termination is the long-term prospects for all minor parties. The usual pattern is a speedy ascent, an impact on the political system including a time in government,...