Political Parties

`This is a really excellent book, the best on British parties that I have read in recent years. Paul Webb utilises the latest research and modern a...

The United States has scores of potential issues and ideologies but only two major political parties. How parties respond to competing demands for ...

This book represents the first comprehensive study of the evolution of parties and party systems in all nine democratic European states with less t...

This book provides an innovative analysis and interpretation of the overall trajectory of the Western European radical left from 1989 to 2015. Afte...

This book explores the Democratic and Republican Party platforms from 1840 to 2016. As the only official, institutionally sanctioned document espou...

During the European elections of 2014, one of the main issues raised by the media was the electoral performance of so called ‘populist parties’. Th...

There is a large and growing literature on Turkish politics in general, and the AKP in particular. However, local government and party organization...

This comprehensive volume is a three-part study of whether the Chinese political system has maintained a significant degree of regime legitimacy in...

First published in 1983, this book reports on the results of a survey in thirteen areas of England where the National Front (NF) had previously gai...

Politics on the Canadian Prairies are puzzling. The provinces share a common landscape and history, but they have nurtured three distinct political...

For too long Belgium remained an unexplored terrain by comparative political scientists. Belgium's politics were best known through the writings of...

There was no more appropriate person to write this book. Robert Blake was the doyen of Tory historians being most famous for his unsurpassed biogra...

In 2008 Ma Ying-jeou was elected President of Taiwan, and the Kuomintang (KMT) returned to power after eight years of rule by the Democratic Progre...

Since 2000, more than twenty countries around the world have held elections in which parties that espouse a political agenda based on an Islamic wo...

In 1991 Taiwan held its first fully democratic election. This first single volume of party politics in Taiwan analyzes the evolution of party compe...

Why are blue-collar workers increasingly supporting the populist radical right in Western Europe? Previous explanations for this phenomenon suggest...

First published in 1983, this book reports on the results of a survey in thirteen areas of England where the National Front (NF) had previously gai...

The closely contested presidential election of 2000, which many analysts felt was decided by voters for the Green Party, cast a spotlight on a stru...

This two-volume work continues the series of election data handbooks published by OUP. It presents a first-ever compendium of electoral data for al...

The closely contested presidential election of 2000, which many analysts felt was decided by voters for the Green Party, cast a spotlight on a stru...

Weed sheds new light on the Roosevelt landslide of 1936, explaining the Republican nomination of Landon and why the GOP so badly miscalculated its ...

Much is written about China and the role of the Chinese Communist Party, but without exploring in detail the nature of the party and how it operate...