Political Parties

• Strong comparative case studies in a core area of political science; • Covers not only an oft-overlooked region, but oft-overlooked countries within that region, like Sri Lanka and Mongolia; • Written by a strong team of academics and practitioners...

This book analyses the rise and growth of the Hindu nationalist party Bharatiya Jana Sangh in post independent India, tracking the electoral journey of the party from 1951 to 1971. Offering a comprehensive analysis of the party Bharatiya Jana Sangh - its...

An eye-opening analysis of collegiate activism and its effects on the divisions in contemporary American politics. The past six years have been marked by a contentious political atmosphere that has touched every arena of public life, including higher...

Explaining Religious Party Strength explores why religious political parties are electorally successful in some countries but not in others. Drawing on insights from political science and sociology, this book argues that religious parties are typically...

Enthusiasm has long been perceived as a fundamental danger to democratic politics. Many have regarded it as a source of threatening instabilities, hoping instead for a more sober and moderate democratic politics. Yet this book shows that we should not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587312519Author George J. MarlinFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Saint Austin PressPublisher Saint Austin Press

This book examines why people vote in the newly consolidated democracies of Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Central and Eastern European countries. It addresses the question of how well models or theories of electoral participation, initially...

This book examines and explains the Center-Left's political decline since 2008, whilst analyzing the factors that account for its sagging electoral and popular support, losing voters both to the Far Left, the Far Right, and abstentions. Focusing on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226762227Author Ken KollmanFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press

The Republican Party was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and its spread to new territories and states. Today, under the sway of Donald Trump, it is hardly recognizable as the party of Lincoln or even the party of Eisenhower. How and why has the...

The first edition of this book demonstrated that British political parties now attempt to offer a complete product that will appeal to a majority of voters, rather than being influenced by a political ideology and firm belief system. This new edition...

American democracy is in deep crisis. But what do we do about it? That depends on how we understand what the crisis actually is. In Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop, Lee Drutman argues that we now have, for the first time in American history, a true...

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913966914Author Reverend Dr James R. CooperFormat HardbackPage Count 251Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 712g

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593466391Author Dana MilbankFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812252996Author Adam HiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania PressWeight(grams)...

First published in 1962, Capital Punishment and British Politics illuminates the process of political decision-making in Britain by analysing the complex activities that led to the passage of a major piece of social legislation, the Homicide Act of 1957...

An objective and dispassionate study of the oldest religion based regional political party: the Shiromani Akali Dal, participating in the democratic politics and processes of socio-economic develop ment and transformation of India. The book delineates...

This book analyses the rise and growth of the Hindu nationalist party Bharatiya Jana Sangh in post independent India, tracking the electoral journey of the party from 1951 to 1971. Offering a comprehensive analysis of the party Bharatiya Jana Sangh - its...

As the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of the federal government becomes increasingly hostile, more Americans are wondering whether national politics can be described as gridlock or good government. This provocative and...

After the gradual slowing down of the 'third wave of democratization,' electoral authoritarianism is rapidly emerging as a dominant form of contemporary autocracy. Political parties play a key role within the political and institutional structures of...

Goes beyond European confines and gives a comprehensive view of religious party strength, exploring different regions and religions, over a long period of time.Presents a theoretically robust critique of Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations.Book...

As 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922633002Author Jo DyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 111g

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

The Southern Strategy was but one in a series of decisions the GOP made not just on race, but on feminism and religion as well, in what Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields call the "Long Southern Strategy." The Southern Strategy is traditionally...

The 2012 presidential elections represented the second consecutive defeat for the Republican Party, and its fourth defeat out of the last six presidential elections. In recent years both Republican and Democratic strategists and pundits have spoken of an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781431421589Author Raymond SuttnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Jacana Media (Pty) LtdPublisher Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd

This timely and significant book provides a comprehensive overview of right-wing ideology and policy-making in the years since Ronald Reagan left office, and an explanation of the reasons why the Republicans, the `party of Reagan', turned towards Donald...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781431428403Author Oscar Van HeerdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Jacana Media (Pty) LtdPublisher Jacana Media (Pty) LtdWeight(grams) 500g

This book presents a comprehensive overview of India's electoral democracy and political system. It provides an in-depth analysis of the 2019 Parliamentary elections to explore three crucial facts of India's political life: the legitimacy of political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806137797Author MS Barbara SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...

After holding power continuously from its inception in 1955 (with the exception of a ten-month hiatus in 1993-1994), Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost control of the national government decisively in September 2009. Despite its defeat, the LDP...

On July 4, 1867, a group of men assembled in Houston to establish the Republican Party of Texas. Combatting entrenched statewide support for the Democratic Party and their own internal divisions, Republicans struggled to gain a foothold in the Lone Star...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809942Author Ted RallFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

This history of the Palestinian Communist Party upends the caricature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an ancient religious blood feud. Musa Budeiri is a Palestinian political scientist, professor at al-Quds University in Jerusalem. Here, he shows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806140742Author Professor Morris P FiorinaFormat HardbackPage Count 249Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma...

Advanced students and faculty in political science, communications, history, sociology, and cultural studies will find this book a timely and intelligent support for their work.Book InformationISBN 9780774861328Author David LaycockFormat PaperbackPage...

How 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...