An account of the changing nature of party politics in Britain. Paul Webb draws on models of comparative politics and empirical analysis to map and explain the capacity of British parties to adapt to a changing political environment. He addresses: the nature and extent of party competition; the internal life and organizational development of parties; the variety of evolving party systems in Britain; the links between parties and the wider political system; the current weaknesses of party performance; and the scope of reform.
An account of the changing nature of party politics in Britain. Paul Webb draws on models of comparative politics and empirical analysis to map and explain the capacity of British parties to adapt to a changing political environment. He addresses: the nature and extent of party competition; the internal life and organizational development of parties; the variety of evolving party systems in Britain; the links between parties and the wider political system; the current weaknesses of party performance; and the scope of reform.
In the wake of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, the Christian Right expected major victories in the 1998 elections. Instead, many of its allies lost close contests, and the movement was seen as a liability in some high-profile campaigns. This book analyzes the role of the movement in fourteen key states, from Maine to California.
The Triumph of Campaign-Centered Politics is an incisive overview of contemporary campaigns and elections and the role parties play in them. Anyone looking to better understand and identify important features of current campaigns and elections, and to place these features in a historical context, will find the book invaluable. Drawing on extensive interviewing and archival research, Menefee-Libey argues that campaign-centered politics is now the dominant force in American elections with serious implications for representative democracy.
British Parties and Voters in Long-term Perspective
Did Labour's landslide victory in 1997 mark a critical watershed in British party politics? Did the radical break with 18 years of Conservative rule reflect a fundamental change in the social and ideological basis of British voting behaviour? Critical Elections brings together leading scholars of parties, elections and voting behaviour to ......
A comprehensive survey of U.S. political parties: their form, their function, and their present state of health. In this latest edition, Keefe provides a clear understanding of how and why present-day parties function as they do. He gives extensive coverage to the parties' role in the electoral process including the primaries, candidate finance, ......
Asking whether, to what extent, and in what ways parties and partisanship have contributed to political and social change, Shafer leads a panel of distinguished scholars who approach the postwar political story of the US by focusing on party officeholders, party factions, party elites, party organizations, mass partisanship and partisan rules.
ISBN-13: 9781566430647
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Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS Imprint: CHATHAM HOUSE PUBLISHERS INC.,U.S.
Public Opinion and Political Parties in the US, UK, Germany and France
The first edition of this book offered the theory that the "quality" of citizen politics is alive and well whereas the institutions of democracy are in disarray. The author argued that citizens are not as uninvolved, uninformed and undemocratic as thier critics suggest. With the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Empire, there arose an ......
ISBN-13: 9781566430265
(Paperback)
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS Imprint: CHATHAM HOUSE PUBLISHERS INC.,U.S.
