Political parties and party platforms Books

This is Volume 2 of a speech given by Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks at the Lincoln Day Banquet of the Union League of Maryland and the Young Men's Republican Club in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 12, 1907. Fairbanks, who served as Vice-President...

In the summer of 1990, Tanzania stood at a crossroads in its quest for democracy. Mussa Membar, once at the center of a dramatic flight hijacking that gripped the world for 36 hours, returns from exile with a bold plan to energize the democratic movement...

What if everything you think you know about the MAGA movement is missing the most important piece of context?In a world flooded with political soundbites, viral memes, and headline-driven outrage, it's easy to feel overwhelmed, misled, or simply...

"The Progressive Party: Its Record From January to July, 1916, Including Statements and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt" offers a detailed look into the activities and pronouncements of the Progressive Party during a pivotal period in American history...

This is a broad ranging introduction to 21st century anarchism which includes a wide array of theoretical approaches as well as a variety of empirical and geographical perspectives.

Third Party Blues presents a concerted effort to analyze the historical value of third parties while showing that minor party inclusion does prompt real-world positive consequences.

Our portraits of voters, their relationship to parties, and the behavior of elected party members have changed significantly within the last 10 to 15 years. Characterizations of dealignment and decreased importance of parties have been fairly rapidly...

This truly comparative volume examines the "life cycle" of party governments in Europe from 1990 onwards, and analyses its role and function in contemporary European parliamentary democracies.The life and the performance of party governments in Europe...

This book offers a critical and comparative examination of international support to political parties and party systems in emerging and prospective new democracies in several world regions. It combines the insights of a strong international grouping of...

This book offers the first comprehensive, comparative and coherent perspective on parliamentary candidates in contemporary representative democracy. Based on the unique database of the 'Comparative Candidate Survey' project which interrogated...

Migration represents one of the key issues in both Italian and European politics, and it has triggered EU-wide debates and negotiations, alongside alarmist and often sensationalist news reporting on the activities of government, party and social movement...

This book discusses right-wing extremism by analysing Germanophone research on this topic for the first time in English, including unique survey data from Germany and Austria. Highlighting how questions of terminology can become complicated when country...

The purpose of this volume is to explore the medieval inheritance of modern international relations. Recent years have seen a flourishing of work on the history of international political thought, but the bulk of this has focused on the early...

During the European elections of 2014, one of the main issues raised by the media was the electoral performance of so called 'populist parties'. The electorate confirmed its deep dissatisfaction with mainstream political parties, voting for far right...

This book analyses social movements and radical political parties' strategies in Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy from 2008 to today. Events in 2011 such as the Arab Spring and the indignados movement in Spain initiated a new cycle of social protest...

Making use of a unique data set that includes more than 1000 leadership elections from over 100 parties in 14 countries over an almost 50 year period, this volume provides the first comprehensive, comparative examination of how parties choose their...

Das Buch ""Die Hochverr�����ter zu L�����beck im Jahre 1384"" von Ernst Deecke, ver������ffentlicht im Jahr 1858, beschreibt die Ereignisse um den Aufstand der Handwerker und Kaufleute gegen die Patrizier in L�����beck im Jahr 1384. Die Patrizier hatten...

Historical and Political Tracts, Irish is a collection of writings by the renowned Irish author and satirist, Jonathan Swift. Originally published in 1905, this book features a series of essays, pamphlets, and letters that were written by Swift during...

The Principles of Parliamentary Representation is a book written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, also known as Lewis Carroll, and published in 1884. The book discusses the principles behind parliamentary representation, including the history of...

The Poll Book of the Election of a Representative in Parliament for the Borough of Whitehaven (1832) is a historical record of the election process for a representative in the British Parliament in the year 1832. The book is specifically focused on the...

Das Buch ""Die Politischen Parteien In Den Vereinigten Staaten Von Amerika"" wurde im Jahr 1868 von Rudolf Doehn ver������ffentlicht. Es bietet eine umfassende Beschreibung der politischen Parteien in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika zu dieser Zeit...

Le livre ""Suppl�����ment aux esquisses historiques de la premi�����re �����poque de la R�����volution de la Belgique, en 1830"" �����crit par Auguste de Wargny en 1831 est un ouvrage qui compl�����te les esquisses historiques de la R�����volution belge...

The dynamics of Indian politics is reflected in the flexible and fluctuating relations between the centre and the states. This book is one of the first to explore the participation of women in state and local politics in India and how women navigate the...

This book introduces a new framework for understanding how the relationship between political parties and the state shapes the development of political parties, party systems, and democratic consolidation.

Decency and Deception: Encouragement for a Struggling Nation, takes the reader on an information pack journey looking at the events that transpired leading up to and during the Trump Presidency. Describing those elements that defined, and haunted the one...

The book examines the influence of context in which elections in contemporary India take place. It will be essential reading for students, teachers and researchers of Indian politics and South Asian studies.

This book makes sense of New Labour by interpreting its ideas and practices as symptoms of the times in which we live. Making Sense of New Labour is an in-depth study, interpreting a wide range of material, including party political broadcasts and other...

This is Volume 4 of Lawrence & Wishart's comprehensive history of the British Communist Party in the twentieth century. The History of the Communist Party of Great Britain 1941-51 begins with the renewal of popular front politics which followed Russia's...

This book examines how Europe-wide issues - such as immigration, cross-national redistribution and further European integration - have reshaped electoral democracy and party competition across Europe.After decades of scholars and commentators...

Argues that Progressive Era reforms had the counterintuitive effect of weakening political parties and their role in representative government.The last twenty years has seen a series of changes to American party politics: polarization, negative...

Inside the Bubble: Campaigns, Caucuses, and the Future of the Presidential Nomination Process is a behind-the-scenes look at the 2020 Democratic nomination process focusing on the Iowa caucuses and the campaign workers who located there. For decades,...

Originally published in 1977, at a time when Scottish affairs were in a state of flux as the debate over political devolution and self-government was pursued, this book deals with key features of Scottish development. It explores the main issues which...

Originally published in 1978, but now re-issued with a new Preface by James Mitchell, this volume traces the rise of the SNP, with special emphasis on explaining the increase of the National Party vote in Scotland from the early 1960s to the late 1970s...

Over the course of American political history, political elites and organizations have often updated their political communications strategies in order to achieve longstanding political communication goals in more efficient or effective ways. But why do...

Das Ziel des politischen Ringens der Gegenwart: In besonderer Hinsicht auf Preu�����en und die standische Monarchie (1844) ist ein Buch von Friedrich Bartholom�����us, das sich mit politischen Themen im Deutschland des 19. Jahrhunderts befasst. Das Buch...

Das Buch ""Das Jahr 1840 als Epoche in der Entwicklungsgeschichte Preu�����ens"" von Saint-Paul, M. Von, wurde im Jahr 1841 ver������ffentlicht und besch�����ftigt sich mit der Bedeutung des Jahres 1840 f�����r die Entwicklung Preu�����ens. Der Autor...

Das Buch ""Das Hohe Haus: Parlamentsbilder Aus Oesterreich (1896)"" von Edmund Wengraf ist eine Sammlung von Portr�����ts und Beschreibungen der Mitglieder des ������sterreichischen Parlaments aus dem Jahr 1896. Es bietet einen Einblick in die politische...

Why did the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not follow the failure of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union? This book examines this question by studying two crucial strategies that the CCP feels it needs to implement in order to...

Twenty-Five Years of GOP Presidential Nominations examines the recent presidential nominees of the Republican Party. The author explores the idea that the presidential defeats of Republican nominees begin with the primary election choice of a moderate...

Elections encapsulate both what the American nation is, and where it wants to go. In this regard, the 2012 election may be the most important in a generation: it marked a still-contentious turn in the nation's understanding of itself. The American...

In early 1840, abolitionists founded the Liberty Party as a political outlet for their antislavery beliefs. A mere eight years later, bolstered by the increasing slavery debate and growing sectional conflict, the party had grown to challenge the two...