Political Parties

After landslide electoral victories, two referenda and a presidential election, thirteen years of AK Party rule have shattered many myths regarding...

The Republic of Cyprus’ social and political culture is deeply partitocratic, with a close relationship between state apparatus and the parties tha...

Often neglected in the study of far right organisations, post-communist Europe recently witnessed the rise and fall of a number of populist radical...

As an electoral bloc, contemporary white evangelical Christians maintain a remarkable ideological and partisan conformity, perhaps unmatched by any...

In the Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion (1992), John Zaller set out one of the most influential models of opinion formation: he presented the pub...

Voters in Scotland face a fundamental choice about their future at the independence referendum on 18th September 2014 and political parties are key...

Amidst the polarization of contemporary politics, partisan loyalties among citizens are regarded as one contributor to political stalemate. Partisa...

Amidst the polarization of contemporary politics, partisan loyalties among citizens are regarded as one contributor to political stalemate. Partisa...

This book deals with the structure of Spanish politics: how citizens and parties locate themselves in political space, and how these actors make de...

Political parties are central to democratic life, yet there is no standard definition to describe them or the role they occupy. "Voter-centered" th...

Political parties are central to democratic life, yet there is no standard definition to describe them or the role they occupy. "Voter-centered" th...

To the surprise of both academics and policy-makers, religion has not been relegated entirely to the private sphere; quite the contrary. Over the l...

This book examines the decade in office of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its efforts to transform the Turkish republic toward a more ...

This book takes a closer look at the role and meaning of political opposition for the development of democracy across sub-Saharan Africa. Why is ro...

Political elites are a key topic in contemporary China studies, and have been investigated in relation to factional politics, generation politics, ...

Eight years after the second Palestinian uprising, the Oslo accords signed in 1993 seem to have failed. The reasons for the failure continue to fas...

This timely book updates, and takes stock of, Lipset and Rokkan's classic work Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives, an ...

To have a voice in shaping government policy has been a goal of the American people since the nation's founding. Yet, government seems even less ac...

The Nazi Party and the German Foreign Office explores the struggle between entrenched diplomats in the Foreign Office and Party loyalists, who pres...

There is increasing awareness of growing similarities in political marketing practices around the world. Global political marketing is a comprehens...

This book examines the transition within the Japanese party system that has seen the demise of ‘the old socialists’, the Japan Socialist Party, and...

Globalization, European integration, and social change have devaluated traditional social democratic policy instruments. This book compares and exp...

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 ...

Party literature is largely focused on the rise and success of new parties and their effects on party systems and older parties. This book, on the ...