Conservatism and Racism, and Why in America They Are the Same (SUNY series in African American Studies)
by Robert C. Smith
How Parties Organize
This book takes a close look inside political parties, bringing together the findings of an international team of leading scholars. Building on a unique set of cross-national data on party organizations, the contributors set out to explain how parties organize, how they have changed and how they have adapted to the changing political and organizational circumstances in which they find themselves. The contributors are recognized authorities on the party systems of their countries, and have all...
The traditional assumption of the hegemony of the three main parties has been challenged in recent polls and elections, with the percentage vote for smaller parties doubling, whilst support for Labour, Lib Dems and even the Tories is in decline. Similarly, in Scotland and Wales, the influence of the SNP and Plaid Cymru has never been more profound. Is the political landscape undergoing a dramatic shift that will manifest itself in the upcoming general election? In these concise, accessible vol...
Looking for the Light on the Hill: modern Labor's challenges
by Troy Bramston
TODAY, THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY IS IN CRISIS. Reduced to minority government after just one term, and at rock bottom in the opinion polls, the party seems to be at a defining moment in its history. The perception of the federal government is that it can't deliver, can be trusted, can't communicate what it stands for, and that it is beholden to independents and the Greens. How did it come to this so soon after Labor's thumping election win in 2007/ Looking for the Light on the Hill argues that...
Chantal Mouffe (Routledge Innovators in Political Theory)
Chantal Mouffe’s writings have been innovatory with respect to democratic theory, Marxism and feminism. Her work derives from, and has always been engaged with, contemporary political events and intellectual debates. This sense of conflict informs both the methodological and substantive propositions she offers. Determinisms, scientific or otherwise, and ideologies, Marxist or feminist, have failed to survive her excoriating critiques. In a sense she is the original post-Marxist, rejecting econom...
Party Politics and Decentralization in Japan and France (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies)
by Koichi Nakano
Decentralization is a curious policy for a central government to pursue. If politics is essentially about the struggle for power, why would anyone want to give away the power that one struggled for and won? This book argues that it is precisely party competition in search of power that propels decentralization. Koichi Nakano develops his core argument through in-depth, qualitative research on the politics of reform in France and Japan. Introducing the concept of oppositional policy, he traces t...
Ernesto Laclau (Routledge Innovators in Political Theory)
Ernesto Laclau has blazed a unique trail in political theory and philosophy since the early 1970s. In so doing, he has articulated a range of philosophical and theoretical currents into a coherent alternative to mainstream models and practices of conducting social and political science. The editors have focused on work in three key areas: Post-Marxist Political Theory: Discourse, Hegemony, Signification Laclau has developed an original conception of post-Marxist political theory that is ground...
Is there more social protest now than there was prior to the movement politics of the 1960s, and if so, does it result in a distinctly less civil society throughout the world? If everybody protests, what does protest mean in advanced industrial societies? This volume brings together scholars from Europe and the U.S., and from both political science and sociology, to consider the ways in which the social movement has changed as a political form and the ways in which it continues to change the s...
Examining the emergence and subsequent demise of intellectual identification with the French Communist Party between 1945 and 1989, Sudhir Hazareesingh argues that, after 1978, political conflicts between the Communist leadership and party intellectuals led to an erosion of support. These conflicts were sharpened by the party's institutional decline during the 1980s. Dr Hazareesingh links these internal factors with wider ideological changes during the 1970s and 1980s: the decreasing relevanc...
This volume provides students of political parties with up-to-date information on both the state of American party organizations and controversies over how these organizations are studied. The collection focuses on new direction in party scholarship-including debates over the vitality and relevance of the two party system, the analytical usefulness of the traditional model of American parties, and the import of organizational studies.
The Europeanization of National Political Parties: Power and Organizational Adaptation
by Professor Thomas Poguntke
Signposts Lib Dem thinking for the build-up to the next General Election - and after. The Liberal Democrats could end up holding the balance of power in Britain after the next General Election. What does the Party stand for and what difference would the Liberal Democrats make in power? Leading Liberal Democrat MPs identify the successes and failures of Blair's Britain and set out fresh thinking for a Liberal agenda. New party leader Sir Menzies Campbell, in an important contribution, unveils his...
Democracy and American Political Parties: Democratic Ideals, Political Uncertainty, and Strategic Positioning
by Professor Jeffrey M Stonecash
True Blues: The Politics of Conservative Party Membership
by Pamela Harriman Professor of Government and Public Policy Paul Whiteley, Lecturer Department of Politics Patrick Seyd, and Professor of European Integration and Director of the European Public Policy Institute Jeremy Richardson
Hoert Die Signale! (Studien Des Forschungsverbundes sed-Staat An der Freien Univ)
The Choice of the People? (Enduring Questions in American Political Life)
by Judith Best and Thomas E. Cronin
The electoral college is arguably the most important but least understood factor that determines the President of the United States. This book brings together the ideas of today's most prominent supporters, critics, and opponents of the electoral college. Along with critical documents that provide historical background and demonstrate the evolution of debates over the legitimacy of this American institution, Judith Best and Thomas E. Cronin together with the testimony of Lawrence D. Longley, ana...
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