Political Parties

When the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed power in India in 1998 as the largest party of the National Democratic Alliance, it...

First published in 1923. This autobiographical study by Francis William Soutter, an English Radical activist and an advocate for independent labour...

The international economic crisis has hit Europe, especially its ‘periphery’, remarkably hard, and has had deep consequences at the economic and po...

This is a comprehensive selection of documents pertaining to the Communist Party of South Africa from the formerly closed archives of the Communist...

This book provides a cross-country study of the consequences of the expansion of intra-party democracy, the trend towards more inclusive methods of...

First published in 1980, Paris and the Provinces explores why reforms of central-local relations in France have been so ineffectual. Professor Gour...

Contemporary American conservatism – a mélange of ideas, people, and organizations – is difficult to define; even conservatives themselves are unab...

Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov is the leader of Russia's resurgent Communist Party and was Boris Yeltsin's strongest challenger in the summer 1996 pre...

Since the 1880s, the Conservative Party has been an important political force in Britain. In this study of Conservative ideology since the end of S...

This volume analyses how the use of referendums affects the central functions and characteristics of representative democracy. It provides a balanc...

Both in Greece in 2012 and Italy in 2013, it took two elections to form a government. A repeat parliamentary contest was required in Greece and the...

When the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) came to power in September 2009, Japanese citizens expected the imminent arrival of a new political era, c...

Over the past seven decades and more, political parties have become an essential feature of the political landscape of the South Asian subcontinent...

Different survey-based and case study research has shown that, since the 1980s, minority nationalist parties have become increasingly supportive of...

Social structure may historically have been of primary importance in accounting for the attitudes and behaviour of many citizens, but now changes i...

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been in power since 2002. This book is the first book-length analysis to chart the rise and development...

This is a comprehensive selection of documents pertaining to the Communist Party of South Africa from the formerly closed archives of the Communist...

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been in power since 2002. This book is the first book-length analysis to chart the rise and development...

What has happened to the European radical left after the collapse of the USSR? How has it reacted, reformed, even revived? This new volume is one o...

This comprehensive Handbook analyses the political parties and party systems across the Middle East and North Africa. Providing an in-depth, empiri...

The State of the Parties 2022 brings together leading scholars of parties, elections, and interest groups to provide an indispensable overview of A...

How has the economic and financial crisis that started in 2007 affected European integration? Observers have been speculating about whether the cri...

Within the democratisation literature, opposition unity is widely seen as an important requisite to successfully pressure authoritarian rulers into...

What impact has EU membership had on party politics in Central and Eastern Europe? Although there is an emerging body of literature on the European...