Political parties and party platforms Books

Barack Obama and his radical team of self-professed socialists, fringe activists, and others are trying to remake the American way of life. They have used their new Democratic majority to launch an alarming assault on our capitalist system--while...

Michael Gerson, who worked with George W. Bush on his most inspiring speeches, is considered by many Democrats and Republicans to be the most influential White House speechwriter since the Kennedy administration. He was also more than a speechwriter, he...

Das Buch zeichnet auf, wie der Bürger von den Politikern betrogen und verarscht wird. Es zeigt, wie er gegenüber den Vermögenden benachteiligt wird und die Schere arm und reich immer weiter auseinander geht. Alle Macht geht von den Politikern und ihren...

The emergence of the right to self-determination phenomenon during the twentieth century changed the political map of the world with the liberation of many nations from the yoke of colonialism. This book is an attempt to navigate the right of...

The book deep dives into the world of politics from a professional's point of view and sets seven clear paths to take for launching yourself into a political career. From campaign management to behavioral science, the book introduces readers to the roles...

Using 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...

""Political Speeches in Scotland in 1884"" is a collection of speeches delivered by William Ewart Gladstone during his tour of Scotland in 1884. Gladstone was a prominent British statesman and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom four times...

The book titled ""Officers, Members, Constitution, and Rules of the Union Club, of the City of New York"" was published in 1907 by the Union Club of the City of New York. The book provides a comprehensive description of the club's constitution, rules,...

Songs Of The G. O. P. is a collection of political songs written by Philander Chase Johnson in 1900. The book contains lyrics to various songs that were popular during the Republican Party's campaign for the 1900 presidential election. The songs cover a...

""Der Reichstag und die Parteien"" ist ein Buch, das im Jahr 1880 von J. V. Jolly ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Werk besch�����ftigt sich mit der politischen Landschaft im Deutschen Reich zur damaligen Zeit und analysiert die verschiedenen politischen...

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...

Domhoff details how the corporate rich and the power dominate US policy, despite constant challenges from inclusionary alliances and from Democrats. The book is updated to explain attempts to influence public opinion and how minority rule can now...

Julius Evola's writing covered a vast range of subjects, from a distinctive and categorical ideological outlook and has been extremely influential on a significant number of extreme right thinkers, activists and organisations. This book is the first full...

Social structure may historically have been of primary importance in accounting for the attitudes and behaviour of many citizens, but now changes in social structure have diminished the role played by class and religious affiliation, whilst the...

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...

Marriages of Inconvenience: The politics of coalitions in South Africa is a research-based volume that collates and interprets lessons that South Africa should take to heart in managing interparty coalitions. It draws from domestic experiences as well as...

'We were talking about the rise of Japan, about Ronald Reagan's Star Wars ... globalisation, technology. And they were still banging on about the Freedom Charter.' - Anglo American's Michael Spicer on the ANC in the mid-1980sIn 1985, a group of white...

Remember that metaphor about the frog that slowly cooks to death in the pot of increasingly warm water? Leftists have used it for years to describe how people can accept dwindling health care, fading job opportunities, eroding racial and gender...

Fully revised and updated, this new edition of Simon James's comprehensible and accessible text provides an excellent insight into the work of the Prime Minister and Cabinet government. It draws on the wealth of new material that has become available in...

The Four Faces of the Republican Party clearly describes how Republican Presidential nominating contests unfold.

Why Minority Governments Work tackles central questions: how well minority parliamentary governments govern; how they build majorities; and why some perform better than others. It offers an explanatory framework to account for governing capacity that...

The internet is changing the way we interact and communicate. But how is it impacting on more historically traditional institutions like the British Conservative Party? This book examines the role of specific internet technologies like ConservativeHome,...

Conservative social movements such as the Tea Party are having a huge impact on American politics and social life. Unlike social movements of the past, these conservative protesters are not oppressed minorities but tend to be relatively privileged...

The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is one of China's most strategically important, resource-rich and largest regions but also one of the country's most troublesome, the region now being synonymous with ethnic conflict and nationalist movements. This...

From attempts to control inflation in the 1970s, through the reforms of the Thatcher years, to the rise and fall of New Labour, this book shows how different theories and conceptual models have been critical to the development of industrial relations in...

No one could have predicted that a peaceful sit-in to counter government plans to raze Istanbul's Gezi park would escalate into a country-wide protest movement, arguably the most serious political crisis Turkey, a country often hailed as a 'model' in the...

Written in June and July 1905, Lenin here set forth his basic views on the bourgeois revolution in Russia, on which serious differences had developed with the Mensheviks. The revolution was then in progress, and Lenin felt the need for a clear...

The biggest story in American politics. . . . . . is the shift of Hispanic voters from reliable Democratic supporters to a much less predictable mix, with a growing segment making their home in the Republican Party.America's Hispanic population has...

Between 1808 and 1830, the Whigs made a remarkable transition from opposition to office that highlights important trends in early 19th century Britain. The Whig Revival examines how a coalition between provincial interest groups and the parliamentary...

This book presents a systematic account of the relationship between political parties and deliberative democracy.

This program provides valuable insight into the 1920 Republican National Convention. It includes speeches, schedules, and other important information related to the event. A must-have for anyone interested in American political history.This work has been...

"An eloquent and important examination of one of the most significant political trends of the last fifty years, revealing how prescient President Lyndon Johnson was on the occasion of his signing of the 1965 Civil Rights Bill when he made his famous...

Maria de Luna was one of late medieval Spain's most intriguing female personalities. In a period characterized by powerful male rulers, she combined patronage and a pious cultural program to extend her political power, both formally and informally. ...

This book examines the 1990s backlash against illegal immigrants. Wroe explains why many Americans turned against immigration, looking at the origins of California's Proposition 187 and its wider political implications.

No other political party in the history of Britain?s fascist tradition has been as successful at the ballot box as today?s British National Party (BNP). This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Contemporary British Fascism offers an in-depth study...

In 2010, the Conservative Party returned to office after over a decade of largely ineffective opposition to New Labour. This book explains why it took so long to recover, and why the party was unable to win an overall majority despite the charismatic...

Germany's New Right as Culture and Politics is the first full-length study in English of the New Right in Germany and it breaks new ground by considering the New Right as both a political and a cultural movement. This approach reveals the problems that...

Parliaments around the world are still overwhelmingly populated by men, yet studies of male dominance are much rarer than are studies of female under-representation. In this book, men in politics are the subjects of a gendered analysis. How do men manage...

Why are the EU and immigration such complicated questions for political parties to compete on? And what challenges do they present to parties' electoral strategies? By systematically comparing the political mainstream in four West European countries...

Political Extremism in Democracies: Combating Intolerance is a theoretically inspired, empirically rich study of political parties that have been branded as untouchable pariahs. Democracy's painful paradox seems to require tolerance of the intolerant,...