Political Parties category: 994 books
Why Regional Parties?
Clientelism, Elites, and the Indian Party System
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Today, regional parties in India win nearly as many votes as national parties. In Why Regional Parties?, Professor Adam Ziegfeld questions the conventional wisdom that regional parties in India are electorally successful because they harness popular grievances and benefit from strong regional identities....
by Lok Raj Baral
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2004
The present volume is the product of a ten-day workshop on Political Parties and Parliament supported by the Ford Foundation. It is also the second in the series, Upgrading Political Science in Nepal started by the Nepal Centre for Contemporary Studies (NCCS). Many other activities in this connection...
Challenging Austerity
Radical Left and Social Movements in the South of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book analyses social movements and radical political parties’ strategies in Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy from 2008 to today. Events in 2011 such as the Arab Spring and the indignados movement in Spain initiated a new cycle of social protest. This book explores how the economic crisis and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The book analyses how political parties compete and strategise on the issue of territorial reform using case-studies that include countries from both Western (Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain) and Central-Eastern Europe (Poland, Slovakia and Romania). Each case-study in the volume considers the different...
The Primary Rules
Parties, Voters, and Presidential Nominations
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Reflecting on 2016, it might seem that the national parties have little control over how the presidential nominations unfold and who becomes their presidential candidate. Yet the parties wield more influence than voters in determining who prevails at the National Conventions. Although the reforms...
Uneasy Alliances
Race and Party Competition in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Uneasy Alliances is a powerful challenge to how we think about the relationship between race, political parties, and American democracy. While scholars frequently claim that the need to win elections makes government officials responsive to any and all voters, Paul Frymer shows that not all groups...
Corporate Governance, Competition, and Political Parties
Explaining Corporate Governance Change in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
The corporate governance systems of continental Europe have traditionally been quite different to those of the liberal market economies (e.g. the US and the UK). Company ownership has been dominated by incumbent blockholders, with a relatively minor role for minority shareholders and institutional...
Radical Right Parties in Central and Eastern Europe
Mainstream Party Competition and Electoral Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
In Central and Eastern Europe, radical right actors significantly impact public debates and mainstream policy agenda. But despite this high discursive influence, the electoral fortune of radical right parties in the region is much less stable. It has been suggested that this may be due to the fact...
No Middle Ground
How Informal Party Organizations Control Nominations and Polarize Legislatures
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
“This is a fascinating book. It is one of the best studies of the ways that parties and politics get conducted in any American state. Masket shows that legislators can be perfectly content without parties that control agendas and does a terrific job of explaining the transition from free-wheeling...
PolitiGuide 2016
A Simple and Neutral Summary of the Most Important Issues in the 2016 Presidential Election
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
PolitiGuide 2016 summarizes the Republican and Democratic parties’ most common viewpoints on each political issue in the 2016 presidential election. This content is presented in an unbiased and “to the point” format so that you can be an informed, articulate, and empowered American voter. Get...
European Political Parties as Campaign Organisations
as Campaign Organisations: Towards a Greater Politicization of the European Parliament Elections
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
This paper looks at the origins and development of the European political parties, describes the campaign strategies in the recent European elections, analyses the results and implications of Europarties’ campaign involvement and outlines challenges and prospects for the future.
Political Parties and Partisanship
Social identity and individual attitudes
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Political Parties and Partisanship provides an up-to-date examination of the conceptualizations, causes, and consequences of partisanship in both new and established democracies in Eastern Europe.
by Ami Pedahzur, Leonard Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
What is the relationship between the political parties that embrace the democratic process and terrorist groups, which eschew the legal and procedural strictures of democracy?
This acclaimed volume provides a detailed theoretical and empirical analysis of this controversial issue. Drawing...
Parties and Party Systems
A Framework for Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In this rich and broad-ranging volume, Giovanni Sartori outlines what is now recognised to be the most comprehensive and authoritative approach to the classification of party systems. He also offers an extensive review of the concept and rationale of the political party, and develops a sharp critique...