Political Parties

As a small boy in Epping Forest, Jack Straw could never have imagined that one day he would become Britain's Lord Chancellor. As one of five childr...

This book examines the representativeness of party membership and analyses the potential consequences of changing representativeness. Parties with ...

Blair’s community is an exciting and timely book which challenges the accepted wisdom about the role of communitarian thought in the development of...

Explaining Religious Party Strength explores why religious political parties are electorally successful in some countries but not in others.Drawing...

This book explores contemporary populist politics through the lens of ontological security theory. It shows that the 'divisionary politics of popul...

First published in 1948, this book gives a full account of the development of the British Labour Party from its emergence as a national influence i...

In this book, John Ehrenberg argues that Donald Trump, as both candidate and president, represents a qualitatively new stage in the evolution of th...

Labour's War is the first scholarly history of the Labour Party during the Second World War, and offers a fresh look at British politics during the...

First published in 1973. In this study, the author adopts a historical approach, tracing the evolution of socialist thinking during the past centur...

Migration represents one of the key issues in both Italian and European politics, and it has triggered EU-wide debates and negotiations, alongside ...

Explaining Religious Party Strength explores why religious political parties are electorally successful in some countries but not in others.Drawing...

First published in 1941. This purpose of this history of the earlier phases of the political Labour movement was due to the author’s belief that th...

In this book, John Ehrenberg argues that Donald Trump, as both candidate and president, represents a qualitatively new stage in the evolution of th...

The State of the Parties 2018 brings together leading scholars of parties, elections, and interest groups to provide an indispensable overview of A...

First published in 1988. The years 1945-51 were crucial to the Labour Party and the Left in Britain. This elegantly written book traces the gradual...

'IT'S THE SUN WOT WON IT', was the famous headline claim of Britain's most popular newspaper following the Conservative party's victory over Labour...

Are we seeing the presidentialization of politics in Japan? Certainly, many recent prime ministers have demonstrated powerful leadership, notably J...

This book analyses the evolution of key Islamist movements and parties in Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco. It offers a novel and exhaustive study of th...

This is a pioneering comparative study of the early years of the British Labour Party and the German Social Democratic Party. Stefan Berger examine...

The 16th book in The Elections in Israel series, this book covers an extraordinary political event of having four national elections in two years, ...

During the last decade and a half a new political party family, the extreme Right-wing populist (ERP) parties, has established itself in a variet...

The unexpected shift from the election of Barack Obama and the post-racial hope to the racial confrontations in the Trump era begs the question: Wh...

This work examines political communications in British general elections. Like its predecessors it has a dual purpose: first, to make available the...

Until the publication of this book in 1974, the leaders of the October Revolution remained very badly known. This book exhumes the autobiographies ...