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Latin American Party Systems by Herbert Kitschelt
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $156.49Political parties provide a crucial link between voters and politicians. This link takes a variety of forms in democratic regimes, from the organization of political machines built around... -
Germany: Beyond the Stable State by Herbert Kitschelt
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $83.19From the 1960s to the 1980s, observers gave the name "Model Germany" to the Federal Republic. They saw in Germany a political-economic "model" that was able to weather many economic challenges... -
The Transformation of European Social Democracy by Herbert Kitschelt
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $54.48This book explains the contrasting strategies and their electoral fortunes of social democratic parties in the major European democracies in the 1970s and 1980s. Going beyond approaches that focus on... -
Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism by Herbert Kitschelt 9780521624466
RRP: $193.05Booksplease Price: $176.46In the early 1980s, many observers, argued that powerful organized economic interests and social democratic parties created successful mixed economies promoting economic growth, full employment, and... -
The Transformation of European Social Democracy by Herbert Kitschelt 9780521451062
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $151.30This book explains the contrasting strategies and their electoral fortunes of social democratic parties in the major European democracies in the 1970s and 1980s. Going beyond approaches that focus on... -
Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism by Herbert Kitschelt 9780521634960
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $63.22In the early 1980s, many observers, argued that powerful organized economic interests and social democratic parties created successful mixed economies promoting economic growth, full employment, and... -
Latin American Party Systems by Herbert Kitschelt 9780521132664
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $55.07Political parties provide a crucial link between voters and politicians. This link takes a variety of forms in democratic regimes, from the organization of political machines built around... -
The Radical Right in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis by Herbert Kitschelt 9780472084418
RRP: $56.45Booksplease Price: $54.48Winner of the American Political Science Association's 1996 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award.The rise of new political competitors on the radical right is a central feature of many contemporary... -
Patrons, Clients and Policies: Patterns of Democratic Accountability and Political Competition by Herbert Kitschelt 9780521865050
RRP: $212.55Booksplease Price: $192.74Most models of party competition assume that citizens vote for a platform rather than narrowly targeted material benefits. However, there are many countries where politicians win elections by giving... -
Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation by Herbert Kitschelt 9780521658904
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $61.60Post-Communist Party Systems examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the mid-1990s: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Legacies of pre-communist rule... -
Patrons, Clients and Policies: Patterns of Democratic Accountability and Political Competition by Herbert Kitschelt 9780521690041
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $70.14Most models of party competition assume that citizens vote for a platform rather than narrowly targeted material benefits. However, there are many countries where politicians win elections by giving... -
Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation by Herbert Kitschelt 9780521652889
RRP: $193.05Booksplease Price: $175.48Post-Communist Party Systems examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the mid-1990s: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Legacies of pre-communist rule... -
The Crisis of Socialism in Europe by Christiane Lemke 9780822311805 [USED COPY]
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $2.40The revolutions in Eastern Europe and the recasting of socialism in Western Europe since 1989 have given rise to intense debate over the origins, character, and implications of the "crisis"... -
The Left Libertarianism of the Greens by Kire Sharlamanov 9783031392627
Booksplease Price: $218.63This book offers a systematic and multifaceted analysis of the Greens on the levels of political philosophy, political concepts, social movement, political parties, and political ideology. The... -
The Madisonian Turn: Political Parties and Parliamentary Democracy in Nordic Europe by Torbjorn Bergman 9780472035298
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $56.18Parliamentary democracy is the most common regime type in the contemporary political world, but the quality of governance depends on effective parliamentary oversight and strong political parties... -
Political Parties and Democracy by Larry Diamond
Booksplease Price: $51.52Political parties are one of the core institutions of democracy. But in democracies around the world-rich and poor, Western and non-Western-there is growing evidence of low or declining public... -
Controlling the Electoral Marketplace: How Established Parties Ward Off Competition by Joost van Spanje 9783319582016
RRP: $194.98Booksplease Price: $194.16This book studies how established political parties react to the far left and far right parties that have surged in many democracies worldwide. While some of the extremist parties are being imitated... -
Social Structure, Value Orientations and Party Choice in Western Europe by Oddbjorn Knutsen 9783319521220
Booksplease Price: $195.27This book analyses the impact of socio-structural variables, such as social class, religion, urban/rural residence, age and gender, on influencing an individual's voting preferences. There have been... -
Third Way Reforms: Social Democracy after the Golden Age by Jingjing Huo
RRP: $134.55Booksplease Price: $123.67This book examines the transformation of contemporary social democracy through the concept of 'third way' reforms. It proposes a set of theories about the possibility for continuing social democratic... -
The Politics of Advanced Capitalism by Pablo Beramendi 9781107492622
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $63.22This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on capitalism: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism (1985)... -
Why Regional Parties?: Clientelism, Elites, and the Indian Party System by Adam Ziegfeld 9781107546813
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $59.18Today, regional parties in India win nearly as many votes as national parties. In Why Regional Parties?, Professor Adam Ziegfeld questions the conventional wisdom that regional parties in India are... -
Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties in Western Europe: Into the Mainstream? Tjitske Akkerman (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) 9781138914988
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $91.20Radical right-wing populist parties, such as Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom, Marine Le Pen's National Front or Nigel Farage's UKIP, are becoming increasingly influential in Western European... -
Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe by Cas Mudde
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $70.14As Europe enters a significant phase of re-integration of East and West, it faces an increasing problem with the rise of far-right political parties. Cas Mudde offers the first comprehensive and... -
Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies by Ronald Inglehart
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $79.31Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It... -
The Europeanization of Politics: The Formation of a European Electorate and Party System in Historical Perspective by Daniele Caramani 9781107118676
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $115.03In a broadly comparative, historical and quantitative analysis, this study reveals the unity of European electorates and party systems. Investigating thirty countries in Western and Central-Eastern... -
Radical Right: Voters and Parties in the Electoral Market by Pippa Norris 9780521613859
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $53.43During recent decades, radical right parties have been surging in popularity in many nations, gaining legislative seats, enjoying the legitimacy endowed by ministerial office, and striding the... -
Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia by Edward Aspinall
RRP: $152.10Booksplease Price: $139.21Politicians in Southeast Asia, as in many other regions, win elections by distributing cash, goods, jobs, projects, and other benefits to supporters, but the ways in which they do this vary... -
Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia by Edward Aspinall 9781009074827
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $50.52Politicians in Southeast Asia, as in many other regions, win elections by distributing cash, goods, jobs, projects, and other benefits to supporters, but the ways in which they do this vary... -
The Europeanization of Politics: The Formation of a European Electorate and Party System in Historical Perspective by Daniele Caramani 9781107544604
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $52.85In a broadly comparative, historical and quantitative analysis, this study reveals the unity of European electorates and party systems. Investigating thirty countries in Western and Central-Eastern... -
Populism in Europe and the Americas: Threat or Corrective for Democracy? by Cas Mudde 9781107699861
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $59.18Although 'populism' has become something of a buzzword in discussions about politics, it tends to be studied by country or region. This is the first book to offer a genuine cross-regional perspective... -
Social Democratic Parties in the European Union: History, Organization, Policies by Robert Ladrech 9780333689400
Booksplease Price: $179.34This book offers a concise and accessible coverage of the historical background, the organization and policies of the fifteen social democratic parties in the European Union with a focus on the... -
Do the Poor Count?: Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty by Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson 9780271037516
Booksplease Price: $72.91Latin America's flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the... -
Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America Mathias Poertner 9781009446297
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $142.08Why are some new political parties successful at creating mass partisanship and engendering stable electoral support, while most fail to take root in society and disappear quickly? Creating Partisans... -
Votes for Survival: Relational Clientelism in Latin America by Simeon Nichter
RRP: $169.65Booksplease Price: $154.75Across the world, many politicians deliver benefits to citizens in direct exchange for their votes. Scholars often predict the demise of this phenomenon, as it is threatened by economic development,... -
The New Politics of Class: The Political Exclusion of the British Working Class by Geoffrey Evans 9780198755753
Booksplease Price: $97.21This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which has both reduced... -
Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America by Mathias Poertner 9781009446280
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $48.81Why are some new political parties successful at creating mass partisanship and engendering stable electoral support, while most fail to take root in society and disappear quickly? Creating Partisans... -
Votes for Survival: Relational Clientelism in Latin America by Simeon Nichter 9781108449502
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $49.59Across the world, many politicians deliver benefits to citizens in direct exchange for their votes. Scholars often predict the demise of this phenomenon, as it is threatened by economic development,... -
The Transformation of the Workers' Party in Brazil, 1989-2009 by Wendy Hunter 9780521514552
RRP: $95.55Booksplease Price: $88.55Drawing on historical institutionalism and strategic frameworks, this book analyzes the evolution of the Workers' Party between 1989, the year of Lula's first presidential bid, and 2009, when his... -
The Transformation of the Workers' Party in Brazil, 1989-2009 by Wendy Hunter 9780521733007
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $52.85Drawing on historical institutionalism and strategic frameworks, this book analyzes the evolution of the Workers' Party between 1989, the year of Lula's first presidential bid, and 2009, when his... -
Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe by David Art
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $46.33What explains the cross-national variation in the radical right's electoral success over the last several decades? Challenging existing structural and institutional accounts, this book analyzes the...