Political Parties

The searing inside story of our broken politics from the former Cabinet minister and co-host of The Rest Is Politics. ‘The most exceptional politic...

The authoritarian upgrading process in Egypt has enabled the regime to have a more effective dominance in local politics and to enhance its politic...

First published in 1995, the aim of this book is to review various aspects of the process of democratic transition in Hungary over the period of it...

With the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe between 1989 and 1991, right-wing extremist parties have emerged and claimed a promine...

Political parties are the fabric of democratic politics. In 1991 a new Russia emerged after seven decades of one-party dictatorship, claiming to be...

Legislative elections are the defining institution of a representative democracy. They determine how the power to govern society is distributed amo...

The Chinese Communist Party and China’s Capitalist Revolution examines issues of political change and development in China. In the last 30 years Ch...

This book examines the domestic electoral consequences of the economic and financial crisis in Europe, particularly in those countries where the cr...

This book explores the ways in which political parties, in contemporary parliamentary democracies, choose their leaders and then subsequently hold ...

Examines the vision of Jeffersonian Republicans and their impact on early American politics In 1800 the Jeffersonian Republicans, decisive victors ...

In the wake of the uprisings throughout the Middle East in late 2010 and early 2011, the role of Islamist parties in the political process has take...

In 2015, the New Democratic Party won an unprecedented victory in Alberta. Unseating the Progressive Conservatives-who had won every provincial ele...

Ronald Reagan's election in 1980 brought with it a major shift in the composition of the U.S. Congress for the first time in several decades. The ...

Any democratic regime needs an active and performative party system. Political parties act as intermediaries between institutions and society, arti...

This trenchant account of the last twenty-five years of the British Labour Party argues that Tony Blair's modernizing tendency was profoundly mista...

The study of Marxism in Britain throws light on what many historians have referred to as `the enemy within’. In this book, David Burke looks at the...

In the entire history of the United States of America:We've never elected a woman as our president.We've only had one president who is not a white ...

This book presents a systematic analysis of the rise and decline of the Indian National Congress since 1980s, using the frame dominance to hibernat...

Deference issues were of central importance in British politics in the years before the first World War, as naval and military policy absorbed the ...

Interest Group Politics has been and will continue to be the leading (essentially only) comprehensive collection of articles on interest groups and...

In recent Congresses, roughly half of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives served in whip organizations and on party committees. Accord...

The UK is more decentralised, contested and diverse than ever before. This new, introductory textbook demonstrates how political scientists are tac...

This book provides an analysis of the relationship between the Egyptian army and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). This is at times of cooperation, coll...

The Limits of Participation provides an historical account of the Canadian Reform Party, which shattered the established pattern of Canadian party ...

The UK is more decentralised, contested and diverse than ever before. This new, introductory textbook demonstrates how political scientists are tac...

Interest Group Politics has been and will continue to be the leading (essentially only) comprehensive collection of articles on interest groups and...

This book has three aims. Firstly, it explores the extreme right in order to assess its ideological meaning and its political expression. Beginning...

The 2013 federal election in Germany took place amidst considerable uncertainty over the EU’s economic crisis. Financial rescue packages for severa...

This book examines the political parties which emerged on the territories of the former Ottoman, Qing, Russian, and Habsburg empires and not only t...

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

The unprecedented influence of the Tea Party during the 2010 election season signaled a sea change in the way the American political game could be ...

This book provides a comparative analysis and a systemic categorization of the Populist Radical Left Parties (PRLPs) in Western Europe. Institution...

It is not possible to understand the nature and functioning of post-communist political parties without understanding their relationship with the s...

In 2005, almost 700,000 immigrants acquired the citizenship of a member state of the European Union; over 600,000 became US citizens; nearly 100,00...

Christian Democracy swept across parts of Latin America, gaining influence in Venezuela in the 1940s, Chile in the 1950s, El Salvador and Guatemala...

This book analyses patterns of women’s political participation and evaluates disparity between levels of women’s participation in politics and repr...

Christian Democracy swept across parts of Latin America, gaining influence in Venezuela in the 1940s, Chile in the 1950s, El Salvador and Guatemala...

Political parties worldwide are using marketing tools such as targeting and segmentation to win elections. Are these strategies making politicians ...

Peronism, the Argentine political movement created by Juan Perón in the 1940's, has revolved since its inception around a personalistic leader, a s...

Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto has become one of the world’s most influential political tracts since its original 1848 publication. Part of ...