Political Parties

In Columbia Rising , Bancroft Prize-winning historian John Brooke explores the struggle within the young American nation over the extension of soci...

In the twenty years of transitional and democratic politics in South Africa, Susan Booysen constantly traversed two worlds, as direct observer and ...

Ruth First and Joe Slovo, husband and wife, were leaders of the war to end apartheid in South Africa. Communists, scholars, parents, and uncompromi...

Article I, Section 3, clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution authorises the Senate to choose its officers, but does not specifically identify them by ti...

The past decade in the UK has seen the rise of the British National Party, the country''''s most successful ever far-right political movement, and ...

David Torrance reassesses the relationship between 'nationalism' and 'unionism' in Scottish politics, challenging a binary reading of the two ideol...

The cocreator of the Washington Posts Made by History blog reveals how the rise of conservative talk radio gave us a Republican Party incapable of ...

The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), founded as a small guerrilla movement in 1974, became the leading party in the Ethiopian People's Revo...

This book provides a concise set of thirteen essays looking at various aspects of the British left, movements of protest and the cumulative impact ...

This book makes an important contribution to the existing literature on European social democracy in the wake of the 2008 financial crash and ensui...

The past decade saw the rise of the British National Party, the country's most successful ever far-right political movement, and the emergence of t...

The victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 election left specialists of American politics perplexed and concerned about the future of US democracy. Be...

Justin Keating, son of the artist Sean Keating, attended UCD and TCD. He was a Labour Party politician (Minister for Industry 1973-77), academic, j...

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

Examining the corruptive effects that money can have on politics, this book explores the challenges of party funding reform in South Africa. With i...

How do leading Conservative politicians strive to communicate with and influence the electorate? Why have some been more effective than others in a...

First published in the late 1960s, this analysis investigates African National Congress history and policies. Covering the ruling South African Par...

These two volumes, which are meant as companion volumes to the book The Historical Roots of the ANC (published by Jacana in November 2010), provide...