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Is Voting for Young People? by Martin P. Wattenberg
RRP: €44.02€38.71In 2016, Hillary Clinton managed to win the Democratic nomination despite losing young voters to Bernie Sanders by a margin of 73 to 26 percent. The fact that senior citizens were four times more likely to vote in the primaries than young people enabled... -
Paving the Third Way: The Critique of Parliamentary Socialism - a Socialist Register Anthology by David Coates 9780850365122
RRP: €23.80€21.23After the twenty year hiatus of Thatcherism, the character and politics of the British Labour Party are again centre stage. In the UK itself, a new generation of students, intellectuals and political activists are turning both their scholarship and their... -
The Truth That Sticks: New Labour's Breach of Trust by Martin Bell 9781840468229 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€3.15This is a timely, heartfelt and tough analysis of Britain's New Labour years from a hugely respected journalist and former politician. It is destined to become the definitive critique of the Blair years. Martin Bell dissects scandals from Bernie... -
The Truth That Sticks: New Labour's Breach of Trust Martin Bell 9781840468229
RRP: €20.22€14.26This is a timely, heartfelt and tough analysis of Britain's New Labour years from a hugely respected journalist and former politician. It is destined to become the definitive critique of the Blair years. Martin Bell dissects scandals from Bernie... -
The European Radical Left: Movements and Parties since the 1960s Giorgos Charalambous 9780745340524
RRP: €27.36€21.35Is today's left really new? How has the European radical left evolved? Giorgos Charalambous answers these questions by looking at three moments of rapid political change - the late 1960s to late 1970s; the turn of the millennium; and post-2008. He... -
Italian Neofascism: The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Nonreconciliation by Anna Cento Bull 9780857451743
RRP: €28.50€23.19During the Cold War Italy witnessed the existence of an anomalous version of a civil conflict, defined as a 'creeping' or a 'low-intensity' civil war. Political violence escalated, including bomb attacks against civilians, starting with a massacre in... -
Parties, Politics, and Public Policy in America by Marc J. Hetherington 9781604264586
RRP: €122.57€107.11With revitalized and stronger political parties should we see more effective and accountable government? Despite the resurgence of parties in America, charges of irresponsible and unreliable government remain. Why the disconnect? In Parties, Politics,... -
Movement Parties Against Austerity Donatella della Porta (European University Institute) 9781509511464
RRP: €20.22€18.11The ascendance of austerity policies and the protests they have generated have had a deep impact on the shape of contemporary politics. The stunning electoral successes of SYRIZA in Greece, Podemos in Spain and the Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) in Italy,... -
'Y Blaid Ffasgaidd yng Nghymru': Plaid Cymru a'r Cyhuddiad o Ffasgaeth by Richard Jones 9780708326503 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51€6.68Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
'Y Blaid Ffasgaidd yng Nghymru': Plaid Cymru a'r Cyhuddiad o Ffasgaeth by Richard Jones
RRP: €9.51€7.33This revealing and controversial book weighs and reflects on the historical truth of the accusations of sympathy with Fascism against Plaid Cymru and its leaders.About the AuthorProfessor Richard Wyn Jones is Professor of Welsh Politics and Director,... -
The Democrats: A Critical History (Updated edition) by Lance Selfa 9781608461929
RRP: €20.22€12.34Offering a broad historical perspective, Selfa shows how the Democratic Party has time and again betrayed the aspirations of ordinary people while pursuing an agenda favorable to Wall Street and U.S. imperial ambitions. He examines the relationship... -
States of Neglect: How Red-State Leaders Have Failed Their Citizens and Undermined America by William Kleinknecht
RRP: €23.79€16.14As America continues down its path of polarization, a celebrated journalist tells us the deep story of the red-state/blue-state divide In the wake of Trump's presidency, Republican-led states have joined in an alarming assault on our democratic system... -
Elections, Violence and the Democratic Process in Jamaica by Amanda Sives 9789766373313 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.17€14.86Since the achievement of adult suffrage in 1944, Jamaican democracy has remained resilient. Fifteen general elections have been held; the results have been accepted by the contending parties and the democratic process has survived. Within the wider Latin... -
British Political Parties Today by Robert W. Garner 9780719051050 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.79€6.77Combines historical analysis with a sharp commentary upon the modern political scene. Reflects the key, recent developments in British Party Politics, such as the 1997 general election, 'New Labour' and the emergence of William Hague as Conservative... -
British Political Parties Today Robert Garner 9780719051050
RRP: €23.79€17.28Combines historical analysis with a sharp commentary upon the modern political scene. Reflects the key, recent developments in British Party Politics, such as the 1997 general election, 'New Labour' and the emergence of William Hague as Conservative... -
Reinventing Democrats: The Politics of Liberalism from Reagan to Clinton by Kenneth S. Baer 9780700610099
RRP: €70.21€59.23When Bill Clinton declared in 1996 that "the era of big government is over," Republicans felt that he was stealing their thunder. But in fact, it was the culmination of a decade-long struggle for the heart and soul of the Democratic party. This... -
Parliaments and Coalitions: The Role of Legislative Institutions in Multiparty Governance by Lanny W. Martin 9780199674787
RRP: €52.35€51.99Coalition governments are the norm in most of the world's parliamentary democracies. Because these governments are comprised of multiple political parties, they are subject to tensions that are largely absent under single-party government. The pressures... -
The Partisan Sort: How Liberals Became Democrats and Conservatives Became Republicans by Matthew Levendusky
RRP: €29.75€28.49As Washington elites drifted toward ideological poles over the past few decades, did ordinary Americans follow their lead? In "The Partisan Sort", Matthew Levendusky reveals that we have responded to this trend - but not, for the most part, by becoming... -
Undue Hate: A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Hostile Polarization in US Politics and Beyond by Daniel F. Stone
RRP: €34.51€29.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047500Author Daniel F. StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 by Kari Frederickson 9780807849101
RRP: €45.16€41.98The movement that forged the way for the rise of the Republican Party in the South In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the ""Dixiecrats,"" and chose Strom Thurmond as their... -
Dynamic Partisanship: How and Why Voter Loyalties Change by Ken Kollman
RRP: €36.89€35.93Why do people identify with political parties? How stable are those identifications? Stable party systems, with a limited number of parties and mostly stable voter identification with a party, are normally considered significant signals of a steady... -
In the Name of Social Democracy: The Great Transformation from 1945 to the Present by Gerrassimos Moschonas 9781859843468
RRP: €28.55€22.42Following the locust years of the neo-liberal revolution, social democracy was the great victor at the fin-de-siecle elections. Today, parties descended from the Second International hold office throughout the European Union, while the Right appears... -
The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party by Hunter Walker 9781324020387
RRP: €27.36€23.54Even before the cataclysmic 2016 US election, the Democratic Party had long been at war with itself-yet Joe Biden's narrow victory in 2020 bridged the divide. Facing the dire threat of a second Trump administration, Democrats forged an unlikely but... -
Political Choice in Britain by Harold D. Clarke 9780199266548
€63.89Why do people vote as they do? Indeed, why do they vote at all? What do they think about elections and democracy? This book addresses these questions by focusing on the explanatory power of rival sociological and "individual rationality" models. Data... -
Political Choice in a Polarized America: How Elite Polarization Shapes Mass Behavior by Joshua N. Zingher 9780197630693
RRP: €98.77€89.65What motivates citizens to support one party over the other? Do they carefully weigh all of the relevant issues and assess which party or candidate best matches their own positions? Or do people look at politics as something more akin to a team... -
What's Wrong with Labour? by Paul Allender 9780850364972
RRP: €15.41€14.20This book is a critique of the Labour Party from the independent left. It draws upon academic analysis and extensive practical experience of the labour movement, to provide a characterization that intends to account for the party's ineffectiveness during... -
New Sinn Fein: Irish Republicanism in the Twenty-First Century by Agnes Maillot
RRP: €49.97€43.73As a consequence of Sinn Fein's connection with the IRA, the military side of the republican movement has tended to overshadow the political, both in terms of its internal operation and strategic choices and in terms of the attention that it has... -
Filibustered!: How the Senate Broke America—And How We Can Restore Our Government by Jeff Merkley 9781620977989
RRP: €23.79€16.14The U.S. Senator from Oregon who is leading the fight to restore the talking filibuster explains how changing just one rule could save our democracyIf we want to fix what ails America, we have to fix the Senate. And if we want to fix the Senate, we must... -
Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior by Ismail K. White
RRP: €41.65€33.01A groundbreaking look at how group expectations unify Black Americans in their support of the Democratic partyBlack Americans are by far the most unified racial group in American electoral politics, with 80 to 90 percent identifying as Democrats-a... -
The Meaning of Partisanship by Jonathan White 9780199684175
€117.12For a century at least, parties have been central to the study of politics. Yet their typical conceptual reduction to a network of power-seeking elites has left many to wonder why parties were ever thought crucial to democracy. This book seeks to... -
We Can All Do Better by Bill Bradley 9781593157296
RRP: €22.60€17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593157296Author PerseusFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint CDS BooksPublisher CDS Books -
Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s by Tyler Gregory Anbinder 9780195089226
RRP: €52.35€36.68Politicians have used immigrants as scapegoats for the nation's problems throughout American history. No group achieved more success with this tactic than the Know Nothing Party, which directed its attacks primarily against Catholic immigrants. Within a... -
Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull: Quarterly Essay 34 by Annabel Crabb 9781863958189
RRP: €17.84€16.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863958189Author Annabel CrabbFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Black Inc.Publisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 201gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 128mm * 16mm -
Tuesday Night Massacre: Four Senate Elections and the Radicalization of the Republican Party by Marc C. Johnson 9780806168548
RRP: €27.31€19.99While political history has plenty to say about the impact of Ronald Reagan's election to the presidency in 1980, four Senate races that same year have garnered far less attention - despite their similarly profound political effect. Tuesday Night... -
Political Negotiation: A Handbook by Professor Jane Mansbridge 9780815727293
RRP: €35.70€31.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815727293Author Jane MansbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm)... -
The Disappearing Center: Engaged Citizens, Polarization, and American Democracy by Alan I. Abramowitz 9780300168297
€29.18Renowned political scientist Alan I. Abramowitz presents a groundbreaking argument that the most important divide in American politics is not between left and right but rather between citizens who are politically engaged and those who are not. It is the... -
Over to You, Mr Brown: How Labour Can Win Again Anthony Giddens (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9780745642239
RRP: €17.84€16.16Anthony Giddens' The Third Way had a far-reaching impact upon the evolution of New Labour in the UK, and upon left of centre policies in many other countries too. Today, nearly a decade later, Labour stands again at a decisive point in its history. A... -
European Party Politics in Times of Crisis by Swen Hutter
RRP: €124.95€112.70This comprehensive study of party competition in Europe since 2008 aids understanding of the recent, often dramatic, changes taking place in European politics. It addresses how the multiple crises that Europe faces have affected the intensity and... -
Parties at War: Political Organization in Second World War Britain by Andrew Thorpe 9780199272730
RRP: €160.65€141.49Political parties formed the cornerstone of the liberal democracy for which Britain claimed it was fighting in the Second World War. However, that conflict represented the most sustained challenge to the British party system during the twentieth century... -
Conservative Radicalism: A Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism 1970-1992 by Timothy Evans 9781571818720
RRP: €117.81€95.76If you share the commonly-held notions about the New Right, which typically associate it with a reactionary ideology of social and economic change, then you are in for a surprise: this study - the first to be carried out from the inside - shows that, at...