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The Central Government of Russia: From Gorbachev to Putin by Iulia Shevchenko 9781138266506
RRP: $92.38$80.72Placing the development of the Soviet and Russian central governments in theoretical context, this work breaks new ground in the study of contemporary Russian politics. Iulia Shevchenko's creative treatment of the principal-agent model offers fresh... -
From Farmyard to City Square? The Electoral Adaptation of the Nordic Agrarian Parties by David Arter 9781138258297
RRP: $60.88$52.69How successful have the Nordic Agrarian-Centre Parties been in transforming themselves from class parties to catchall parties drawing significant support from voters engaged in the non-primary sectors of the economy? Using case studies from five... -
Understanding Political Participation: Green Party Membership in Scotland by Lynn Bennie 9781138258181
RRP: $104.98$91.35Developing a framework of analysis which enables a detailed empirical investigation of Scottish Green Party membership, this is a detailed assessment of why people become members of a green party. The questions are particularly relevant in the light of... -
Empowering Progressive Third Parties in the United States: Defeating Duopoly, Advancing Democracy by Jonathan H. Martin 9781138022003
RRP: $283.50$246.29This ground-breaking collection of writings explores how progressive third parties in the U.S. can become more electorally successful and politically influential. It is the only recently published book that focuses exclusively on how such parties may... -
Corbyn And Trident: Labour's Continuing Controversy by Carol Turner 9780995535213
RRP: $20.90$14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995535213Author Carol TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Public Reading RoomsPublisher Public Reading Rooms -
Italian Neofascism: The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Nonreconciliation by Anna Cento Bull 9780857451743
RRP: $50.30$40.93During 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... -
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now?: Multicultural Conservatism in America by Angela D. Dillard 9780814719404
RRP: $54.58$48.85In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now? Angela Dillard offers the first comparative analysis of a conservatism which today cuts across the boundaries of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. To be an African-American and a conservative, or a Latino who... -
The New NDP: Moderation, Modernization, and Political Marketing by David McGrane 9780774860451
RRP: $186.90$176.02Scholars and students of Canadian politics, social democracy, and social democratic parties will find The New NDP a compelling read, as will NDP politicians, activists, and staffers.Book InformationISBN 9780774860451Author David McGraneFormat... -
Party and State in Post-Mao China by Teresa Wright 9780745663845
RRP: $105.00$91.37In recent decades, China has become a quasi-capitalist economic powerhouse. Yet it continues to be ruled by the same Communist Party-dominated government that has been in power since 1949. But how has China s political system achieved such longevity? And... -
Citizens, Parties and the State: A Reappraisal by Alan J. Ware 9780745603858
RRP: $126.00$109.94This book is a major analysis of the role of political parties in the development and promotion of democracy. Alan Ware offers a discussion of an area of political life which has remained underexamined - the impact of parties on democratic life. Ware's... -
The Unsolid South: Mass Politics and National Representation in a One-Party Enclave by Devin Caughey 9780691181790
RRP: $193.20$61.15During the Jim Crow era, the Democratic Party dominated the American South, presiding over a racially segregated society while also playing an outsized role in national politics. In this compelling book, Devin Caughey provides an entirely new... -
The Conservative Party and the Extreme Right 1945-1975 by Mark Pitchford 9780719083631
RRP: $178.50$126.36This book reveals the Conservative Party's relationship with the extreme right between 1945 and 1975. For the first time, this book shows how the Conservative Party, realising that its well known pre-Second World War connections with the extreme right... -
Representation and Party Politics: A Comparative Perspective by B. D. Graham 9780631173960
RRP: $73.40$64.74Representation and party politics is one of the core themes of the comparatvie study of politics. What function do parties serve? What is the essential relationship between people and parties? Are parties simply a way of reproducing a political elite... -
The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics by Angie Maxwell 9780190265960
RRP: $69.28$65.60The Southern Strategy is traditionally understood as a Goldwater and Nixon-era effort by the Republican Party to win over disaffected white voters in the Democratic stronghold of the American South. To realign these voters with the GOP, the party... -
Taiwan Independence Movement In And Out Power, The by Dongtao Qi 9789814689427
RRP: $231.00$200.05This book is a study of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the Taiwan Independence Movement (TIM) and electoral politics in Taiwan during 2000-2012. It consists of two parts: the first part proposes a movement government framework to understand the... -
Political Parties, Party Systems And Democratization In East Asia by Liang Fook Lye 9789814327947
RRP: $231.00$200.89Some fledging democracies in the world have encountered setbacks due to political parties trying to grapple with the expectations of sophisticated electorates and introducing gradual political reforms over the years.This book describes how democracy is... -
Power Broking In The Shade: Party Finances And Money Politics In Southeast Asia by Wolfgang Sachsenroeder 9789813230736
RRP: $147.00$127.76Political activities, the running of party organisations, branches and headquarters, and especially election campaigns, are becoming increasingly costly, and no party can survive without money. Political power provides access to funding from public and... -
China's Political Dynamics Under Xi Jinping by Zhiyue Bo 9789813146303
RRP: $189.00$164.18China watching is anything but being boring because Chinese politics is filled with dramas almost on a daily basis. In the past three years since Xi Jinping became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese political drama has unfolded... -
Singapore Perspectives: Politics by Natalie Lee San Pang 9789811225727
RRP: $94.50$82.93As in other societies, Singapore's politics can be described either in terms of the political parties that have competed for power over the course of its history, or in terms of the citizens who have defined our polity and have driven our democratic... -
Joining a Prestigious Club: Cooperation with Europarties and Its Impact on Party Development in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine 20042015 by Maria Shagina 9783838210841
RRP: $63.00$50.76Brusselss idea of a wider Europe implies that Europeanisation is not limited to EU member states. The EU can, so it claims, also exert impact beyond its borders. One of the channels of external EU influence is cooperation between Europarties and parties... -
From Tax Populism to Ethnic Nationalism: Radical Right-wing Populism in Sweden by Jens Rydgren 9781845452186
RRP: $207.90$167.64During the last 15-20 years a new party family of radical right-wing populism (RRP) has emerged in Western Europe, consisting of parties such as the French Front National and the Austrian Freedom's Party, among many others. Contrary to the situation in... -
Modernity and Secession: The Social Sciences and the Political Discourse of the <i>lega nord</i> in Italy by Michel Hussyeune 9781845450618
RRP: $207.90$167.64The northern Italian, 'Padanian' identity, fostered by the Lega Nord, is rooted in the long-standing tradition, in political and scholarly discourse, of casting regional differences within Italy in terms of a North-South geographic divide. Trying to come... -
Italian Neo-fascism: The Strategy of Tension and the Politics on Non-reconciliation by A. Bull 9781845453350
RRP: $207.90$167.64During 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. This was due both to the ideological hatred which pervaded political activists both on the right and on... -
Party Responses to Social Movements: Challenges and Opportunities by Daniela Piccio 9781789201536
RRP: $207.90$167.64Across the West, the explosion of social movement activity since the late 1960s has constituted a "participatory revolution" that has posed profound challenges for formal political parties. Through an analysis of new interviews, institutional... -
Trust Us: Reproducing the Nation and the Scandinavian Nationalist Populist Parties by Anders Hellstrom 9781782389279
RRP: $207.90$167.64In Scandinavia, there is separation in the electorate between those who embrace diversity and those who wish for tighter bonds between people and nation. This book focuses on three nationalist populist parties in Scandinavia-the Sweden Democrats, the... -
Lenin And The Revolutionary Party by Paul Le Blanc 9781608464647
RRP: $46.18$31.98Lenin's political and organisational ideas confront the reality of the labour movement and the revolutionary process. This study of Vladimir Lenin's conception of the revolutionary party, and its place in Marxist thought, gives a vibrant sense of the... -
Conservative Radicalism: A Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism 1970-1992 by Timothy Evans 9781571818720
RRP: $207.90$167.64If 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... -
The Populist Challenge: Political Protest and Ethno-nationalist Mobilization in France by Jens Rydgren 9781571816917
RRP: $58.70$47.42"This is a fine, well-written book ...a penetrating and informed analysis." * Martin A. Schain, New York University "Anyone interested in contemporary European and French politics, ERP parties, the Front National, populism nationalism, or... -
The Populist Challenge: Political Protest and Ethno-Nationalist Mobilization in France by Jens Rydgren 9781571816436
RRP: $207.90$167.64During the last decade and a half a new family of political organizations, the extreme Right-wing populist (ERP) parties, has established itself in a variety of West European democracies. These parties represent a monist politics based on ethnic... -
The Crisis of the German Left: The PDS, Stalinism and the Global Economy by Dr. Peter Thompson 9781571815439
RRP: $207.90$167.64Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the... -
The Rise and Demise of German Statism: Loyalty and Political Membership by Gregg Kvistad 9781571811615
RRP: $207.90$167.64German statism as a political ideology has been the subject of many historical studies. Whereas most of these focus on theoretical texts, cultural works, and vague "traditions", this study understands German statism as a functioning logic of... -
Decision-Making Reform in Japan: The DPJ's Failed Attempt at a Politician-Led Government by Karol Zakowski 9781138553941
RRP: $100.78$87.80In the election to the House of Representatives in 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) almost tripled the number of its lower house members by winning 308 seats. It subsequently formed a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party and the... -
Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties: Volume 1 by Moisei Ostrogorski 9781138522121
RRP: $283.50$246.29Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties, originally published in 1902, represented the first serious attempt to analyze the consequences of democratic suffrage by a comparative analysis of political systems. As such, Ostrogorski's two-volume... -
Social Attitudes in Northern Ireland: The 7th Report 1997-1998 by Gillian Robinson 9781138345010
RRP: $140.68$122.28First published in 1998, this seventh volume of Social Attitudes in Northern Ireland reports the main findings of the Northern Ireland Social Attitudes survey carried out in 1996. In this survey, views were obtained on community relations in Northern... -
Responding to Populist Parties in Europe: The 'Other People' vs the 'Populist People' by Angela K. Bourne 9780198892588
RRP: $189.00$171.32Responding to Populist Parties in Europe: The 'Other People' vs the 'Populist People' provides a new theoretical tool kit exploring how those who disagree with populist parties oppose them and what kinds of opposition initiatives work, why, and to what... -
Germany's New Politics: Parties and Issues in the 1990s by David Conradt 9781571810328
RRP: $224.70$180.96Four years after unification, Germany completed what has been called the "super election year": no less than nineteen elections, culminating in the Bundestag vote on October 16, 1994. Four years after unification, the elections of 1994 reveal the state... -
Transformation of the German Political Party System: Institutional Crisis or Democratic Renewal by Christopher S. Allen 9781571811271
RRP: $207.90$167.64Using German political parties as a prism with which to view institutional change, this collection transcends a single country focus and places the German experience in a comparative and historical framework. Evaluation the performance of the German... -
Party, Society, Government: Republican Democracy in France by David Hanley 9781571819666
RRP: $207.90$167.64According to received wisdom parties have played a mainly destructive role in French political development. Of questionable legitimacy, pursuing narrow sectarian goals, often corruptly, they have brought about division, weakness and the collapse of... -
Party Vibrancy and Democracy in Latin America by Fernando Rosenblatt 9780197582602
RRP: $48.28$43.68Even in Latin America's most socially and economically stable countries, new parties emerge constantly, old parties collapse, and party systems across the region are notoriously fragile. Still, there are also successful stories. There have been a number... -
Common Destiny: A Comparative History of the Dutch, French, and German Social Democratic Parties, 1945-1969 by Dietrich Orlow 9781571811851
RRP: $224.70$181.80Although the Socialist or Social Democractic parties played a key role in West European politics during the quarter century after the Second World War, they have been studied far less than their political rivals, the Christian Democrats. The story of...