Political Parties category: 994 books
Parties and Elections in America
The Electoral Process
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Written in a sharp and lively manner that will interest and engage students, this classic text provides comprehensive coverage of all elements of parties and elections in the United States, including local, state, and national party organizations; American party history and party systems; state and...
Third Party Blues
The Truth and Consequences of Two-Party Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
More than many areas of American politics research, studies of minor party competition and success are often overly driven by normative concerns that do not hold up to empirical scrutiny. This concise book presents a concerted effort to analyze the barriers in election law, such as ballot access restrictions...
by Bilveer Singh
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Understanding Singapore Politics is written to address the dearth of a succinct overview on Singapore politics. This introductory text looks at the factors that shape the island-republic's domestic politics, the key institutions and issues in the city-state, electoral power as well as the political...
by Bruce A Larson, Eric S Heberlig
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Close competition for majority party control of the U.S. House of Representatives has transformed the congressional parties from legislative coalitions into partisan fundraising machines. With the need for ever increasing sums of money to fuel the ongoing campaign for majority control, both Republicans...
by Hernán F. Gómez Bruera
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
While scholars, activists and pundits from around the world have heralded the Lula years as a breakthrough for poverty reduction and the forthcoming emergence of Brazil as a dynamic economic superpower, many of their counterparts in the country as well as a number of Brazilianists elsewhere, have...
by Bill Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
“Politics is stuck,” writes Bill Bradley, in this insightful, informative, and provocative book about America at a crossroads, but “idealism isn’t dead. It can be reawakened.”
What will it take to make America a better, stronger, truer country? asks the bestselling author, former...
Prototype Politics
Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Given the advanced state of digital technology and social media, one would think that the Democratic and Republican Parties would be reasonably well-matched in terms of their technology uptake and sophistication. But as past presidential campaigns have shown, this is not the case. So what explains...
Political Realism
How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strengthen American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
A free eBook that asks hard questions about why politics once worked, and how today’s politics do not.
What if idealistic reform itself is a culprit?
In Political Realism, Jonathan Rauch argues that well-meaning efforts to stem corruption and increase participation have stripped political...
by Andrew Bushard
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
In America, the two major parties monopolize our political system, but despite this, political independents, 3rd party candidates, and mavericks still press on. Bold political independents, mavericks, and 3rd party candidates refuse to lie down and accept less than God's best. Instead, these political...
The Reputational Premium
A Theory of Party Identification and Policy Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
The Reputational Premium presents a new theory of party identification, the central concept in the study of voting. Challenging the traditional idea that voters identify with a political party out of blind emotional attachment, this pioneering book explains why party identification in contemporary...
The Political Brain
The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, has explored a theory of the mind that differs substantially from the more "dispassionate"...
The Political Right in Israel
Different Faces of Jewish Populism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
This book takes a fresh look at the trajectories of Israeli politics since the election of Likud in 1977, examining how right wing parties have adopted populist policies in order to carve out an identity and win support at the polls. As such it demonstrates how populism has become a hugely significant...
Turkish Politics and the Rise of the AKP
Dilemmas of Institutionalization and Leadership Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been in power since 2002. This book is the first book-length analysis to chart the rise and development of the party from its Islamist roots through to government, analysing in particular its internal organisation and dynamics. Since its foundation in...
The Political Process in Canada
Essays in Honour of R. MacGregor Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
The influence of the late R. MacGregor Dawson on political thought in Canada is still with us and will, indeed, be with us for a long time to come. It is fitting therefore that a book should be conceived in his honour and that this book should reflect the high qualities of analysis and writing that...