Political Parties

Analyses political parties and party politics in the contemporary Arab worldThe Middle East is a region notorious for political systems traditional...

This book explores the history and ideas of the Scottish Conservative Party since its creation in 1912. You might not believe it now, but the Scott...

This introduction to political parties in Britain offers an examination of the main parties' individual characteristics (including policy, organisa...

From Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama, Americans have little to admire in the legacies of our presidents -150,000 military lives lost, a $100 trillio...

While electorally weak, the Communist Party of Great Britain and its Welsh Committee was a constant feature of twentieth century Welsh politics, in...

This new edition of Donald Sassoon's magisterial history of the Left in the twentieth century includes a substantial new introduction by the author...

The last few years have seen a Scottish independence referendum, a couple of General Elections and a vote on whether or not we should remain in...

'The book offers a broad survey of political partiesâ financing strategies in Southeast Asia.'Contemporary Southeast AsiaPolitical activities, the ...

The bible for The Independent Group and many others Nick Robinson, Today Programme Start Again is a life-raft for all those ...

'A revealing, insightful and gripping biography of one of the most extraordinary people ever to lead a British political party' ObserverThe story o...

This new edition of An Introduction to Middle East Politics continues to provide an expansive survey of Middle East politics, thoroughly revised an...

Fox hunting with Godfrey Bloom; lunching on expenses with Janice Atkinson;talking 'shock and awful' campaign tactics with Douglas Carswell - nothin...

This book tells the story of the ANC Youth League from its origins in the 1940s to the controversies of the Malema era. It analyses the ideology an...

Although the African National Congress (ANC) has been in power now for 20 years and looks set to continue in office for some time yet, its hold on ...

Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that reveal a much-needed vision of American political history. Firstly, partisanship has almost always been...

By any measure, the story of the Scottish National Party is an extraordinary one.Forced to endure decades of electoral irrelevance since its creati...

With Barack Obamas historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned,...

Few Americans and even fewer citizens of other nations understand the electoral process in the United States. Still fewer understand the role playe...

The 2010 general election caught many by surprise as it swept away the old certainties of two-party politics. But, as Stephen Driver shows in this ...

What do we really mean when we say a political party has changed? And exactly what is it that drives that change? Political scientists working in t...

In 1963 Richard Hofstadter published his landmark book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. Today, Matt Lewis argues, America's inclination towar...