Political Parties

The Rise of the Pelhams (1957) looks at the important period between the fall of Walpole and the appointment of Henry Pelham as First Lord of the T...

First published in 1977, The Conservatives has been edited and designed by Lord Bulter, who has contributed much to the ethos and spirit of modern ...

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...

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...

The book analyses how political parties compete and strategise on the issue of territorial reform using case-studies that include countries from bo...

This book takes stock of political reform in Ethiopia and the transformation of Ethiopian society since the adoption of multi-party politics and et...

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...

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...

Despite the so-called Third Wave of Democratization, many autocracies have been resilient in the face of political change. Moreover, many of the tr...

The 2008 presidential election, perhaps more so than the typical quadrennial race, will undoubtedly spawn an abundance of scholarly inquiry. The co...

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

As the United States and the countries of Western Europe have sought to promote democratic rule in those parts of the world that have not enjoyed t...

The 2010 general election was the most eagerly awaited contest in Britain since 1997. With opinion polls showing a closing gap between the parties,...

Between 1861 and 1865, northern voters fortified Abraham Lincoln's administration as it oversaw the end of the institution of slavery and an unprec...

The Moderate Majority examines the Republican electorate and challenges the conventional narrative that todays Republicans are all radicalized, rea...

The Moderate Majority examines the Republican electorate and challenges the conventional narrative that todays Republicans are all radicalized, rea...

The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning provides an essential, global and timely overview of current realities, as well as anticipating the...