Political Parties

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812275834Author Craig BaxterFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania Press

The shaping of American foreign policy by partisan politics is the timely theme of this book. The focus is on the Republican Party's response to the Korean War and the Party's rise to power during first "limited war" officially proclaimed by the United...

Struggles to define the soul of America roil the nation's politics. Debates over the roles of gays, lesbians, women, immigrants, racial and religious minorities, and disputes over reproductive and abortion rights serve as rallying points for significant...

During the 1990s, the Republican party surged to majority status in the South after two decades of struggling unevenly to become established in the formerly one-party Democratic section of the country. In this comprehensive, up-to-date study, seasoned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312295936Author Martin A SchainFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Palgrave MacMillanPublisher Palgrave MacMillanWeight(grams) 581g

The Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) is no stranger to coalition politics. It has a long history of working with others, both in government and in opposition. Up until 2018, it used the framework of tahaluf siyasi as the guide to forming coalitions. Under...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087912905Author Ashraya AnanthanarayananFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Indy PubPublisher Indy PubWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595317233Author Darcy G RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 668Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 152g

The Australian Greens has been described at various times as the fastest growing new party in Australia, its forerunner the United Tasmania Group the first Green party in the world, and its former Leader Bob Brown as a global treasure. The party played a...

While 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...

South Africa's governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), has undergone dramatic changes over the last thirty years. Historically a hotbed of political activism, Port Elizabeth is an illuminating site. In 2016, observers greeted with shock the...

Presidential scholars, former and current policymakers, and a former president bring varied insights and analyses to consider the impact, influence, and legacy of the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton, the "'New Democrat' from Hope, Arkansas...

The period from 1850 to 1876 was the most transformative era in American history. During the course of this tumultuous quarter century Americans fought a bloody civil war, tried to settle the issue of state versus central government power, recognized the...

It didn’t begin with Donald Trump. The unraveling of the Grand Old Party has been decades in the making. Since the time of FDR, the Republican Party has been home to conspiracy thinking, including a belief that lost elections were rigged. And when...

This analysis of the contours and social bases of mass voting behavior in the United States over the course of the third electoral era, from 1853 to 1892, provides a deep and rich understanding of the ways in which ethnoreligious values shaped party...

Enough time has passed, and enough key events have taken place for the contours of the administration of Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to be apparent. While it has flirted openly with reforms, and has used phrases otherwise used by the...

Party mergers are a new development in Myanmar politics. Given that such mergers often assist the consolidation of new democratic regimes, some broader system-wide effects may also occur. Myanmar’s ethnic parties consistently choose merger strategies...

The Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition won Malaysia’s 14th general election on 9 May 2018, the first time a regime change took place in the country. However, it lost its majority in late February 2020, when Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (BERSATU) left the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670090693Author N. P. UllekhFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936296934Author Chuck MorseFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Trine DayPublisher Trine DayWeight(grams) 194g

Examines the largely lost history of the Republican party in the first half of the twentieth century. Exploring the internal dynamics of the GOP during those decades, this draws on a wide range of previously neglected sources to explore the fundamental...

On March 18,2000, Taiwan's voters stunned the world by choosing Chen Shui-bian. the candidate of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), to be their president A host of new issues quickly became the subject of debate. What is the DPP? Where...

Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) was officially launched on 14 January 2017, led by prominent personalities including former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, former Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, and former Kedah Chief Minister Mukhriz...

This volume in 15 chapters serves as a useful overview of various significant aspects of the new trends of political participation in Hong Kong. Written by a team of experts who have been astute observers of Hong Kong politics, the book covers a wide...

Despite radical changes in Turkish politics since the transition to a multiparty system in the mid-1940s, the centre-right parties have consistently won an electoral majority. Why? How have they managed to maintain such a firm hold in the face of social...

Why has Mexico's political left been in such turmoil since the dramatic 2006 election? What explains the contentious relationship between the country's largest left-wing party, the PRD, and its former presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador?...

After a tumultuous few months that have seen an election-winning prime minister replaced as leader by Australia's first woman prime minister, many people are questioning what Labor stands for, and wondering what it should stand for. In this book, young,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471748533Author Todd GitlinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 572g

Today, when politicians, pundits, and scholars speak of states’ rights, they are usually referring to Southern efforts to curtail the advance of civil rights policies or to conservative opposition to the federal government under the New Deal, Great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780872498433Author J.David GillespieFormat PaperbackPage Count 343Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South Carolina Press

How democratic was the Democratic Party of the antebellum South? Too often, Wallace Hettle points out, studies of politics inthe nineteenth-century South reinforce a view of the Democratic Party that is frozen in time on the eve of Fort Sumter - a...

Confronted with two historically unpopular presidential candidates, the American electorate in 2016 delivered a shock to the political system. Less noted, amid the drama of Donald Trump's victory, was the substantial share of the vote won by minor...

Political parties have long sought to expand their electoral coalitions by making marginal changes to the way they project themselves to the public. How do voters respond to these often short-term campaign appeals to ""compassionate...

In this controversial book, Keith Krehbiel investigates and casts doubt upon a view of Congress held by many academics, journalists, and members of the lay public: that Congress is organized primarily to facilitate logrolling or ""gains from...

Close competition for majority party control of the U.S. House of Representatives has transformed the congressional parties from legislative coalitions into partisan fundraising machines. With the need for ever increasing sums of money to fuel the...

In recent decades, Ireland's three major political parties have maintained over 80 percent of the vote in the face of rapidly shifting social divisions, political values, and controversial issues, though not by giving voice to particular interest groups...

Comparative Political Parties and Party Elites presents a comparative analysis of political parties and party elites in contemporary democracies. The cases covered include developed and developing countries ranging from the United States to the new...

Mark Latham's passionate attack in ""The Latham Diaries"" on many aspects of the Australian Labor Party, especially what he called its 'poisonous and opportunistic culture', generated fierce debate, both outside and inside the Party...

Asethnic, racial, religious, and genderbased groups demand rights to pursue radically diverse lifestyles or maintain their cultural traditions, conflict seems inevitable, even in a free society. Government may offer remedies to social dilemmas - such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550228649Author David OliveFormat PaperbackPage Count 355Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 419g