Political Parties

This book examines the emergence and the political use of what has come to be known as “culture wars” in the United Kingdom.Adopting multidisciplin...

This book focuses on the consequences of internal conflict for electoral competition and demonstrates why the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in all...

This book examines the emergence and the political use of what has come to be known as “culture wars” in the United Kingdom.Adopting multidisciplin...

The investigation of the rise and fall of Gao Gang suggests broader implications on the nature of elite politics in the Maoist era. The illuminatio...

Most of the earlier studies on the Indonesian political party, Golkar, tend to view the organization solely as an electoral machine used by the mil...

In an effort to understand how and why democratically elected governments evade the limitations that democratic accountability and popular particip...

Freedom, Union, and Power analyzes the beliefs of the Republican Party during the Civil War, how those beliefs changed, and what those changes fore...

Anthony Giddens' The Third Way had a far-reaching impact upon the evolution of New Labour in the UK, and upon left of centre policies in many other...

How Political Parties Respond focuses specifically on the question of interest aggregation. Do parties today perform that function? If so, how? If ...

Through her long involvement in the German Communist party, Ruth Fischer amassed valuable material on its changing fortunes, the transformation of ...

The investigation of the rise and fall of Gao Gang suggests broader implications on the nature of elite politics in the Maoist era. The illuminatio...

An analysis of the Chinese Communist Party from the time of Deng Xiaoping's return to power in 1978 to his resignation from his last major party po...

Anthony Giddens' The Third Way had a far-reaching impact upon the evolution of New Labour in the UK, and upon left of centre policies in many other...

An analysis of the Chinese Communist Party from the time of Deng Xiaoping's return to power in 1978 to his resignation from his last major party po...

Presents a brilliant, persuasive case that American political parties, so often dismissed as immature or ineffective compared with their European c...

This book considers the emergence of centre right parties in Eastern Europe following the fall of communism, focusing primarily on the case of the ...

This is the first book to cover the centre-right in post-communist Eastern Europe. It makes an vital contribution to the broader research agenda on...

Academic studies of elections are not in the business of predicting outcomes. They are in the business of explaining them. The best studies treat v...

This study examines Latino national political coalitions in the United States with a focus on Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans. It argues that L...

Do Democrats have greater difficulty maintaining party unity than Republicans? William Mayer argues that they do, chiefly because the Democrats are...

Students of American government are faced with an enduring dilemma: Why two parties? Why has this system remained largely intact while around the w...

In this definitive history of the evolution of the Com- munist Party in America--from its early background through its founding in 1919 to its emer...

The authors not only provide an in-depth analysis of the interplay of interests and ideology behind the People's movement but also establish relati...

Why did precarious and collapsed democracies in Europe develop into highly stable democracies? Gerard Alexander offers a rational choice theory of ...