'This thoughtful and wide-ranging review of parties and party research contains contributions from many of the foremost party scholars and is a must for all library shelves' - Richard Luther, Keele University 'The study of political parties has never been livelier and this genuinely international Handbook - theoretically rich, comparatively ......
Cultural factions are an intrinsic part of the fabric of American politics. But does this mean that there is no room for compromise when groups hold radically different viewpoints on major issues? Not necessarily. For example, in a June 2003 Time/CNN poll, 49% of respondents identified themselves as pro-choice and 46% identified as pro-life. But ......
The Bund and the Polish Socialist Party in Late Czarist Russia, 1892-1914
Joshua D. Zimmerman describes and analyzes the relationship between Polish and Jewish revolutionary movements in the Russian empire between 1892 and the outbreak of World War I.
How have Europe's mainstream political parties responded to the long-term decline in voter loyalties? What are the consequences of this change in the electoral markets in which parties now operate? Popular disengagement, disaffection, and withdrawal on the one hand, and increasing popular support for protest parties on the other, have ......
How have Europe's mainstream political parties responded to the long-term decline in voter loyalties? What are the consequences of this change in the electoral markets in which parties now operate? Popular disengagement, disaffection, and withdrawal on the one hand, and increasing popular support for protest parties on the other, have ......
In recent years political campaigns in Western democracies have relied increasingly upon television advertising to promote candidates and/or political parties. Campaigns in North America were the first to channel political messages in this way and many European campaigns have been based on the United States models. This comparative analysis highlights the differences and the similarities of campaigns in Western democracies. The various campaign styles, their methods and approaches reflect the unique political and cultural traditions of each country. Written by renowned contributors, the chapters are based on the most recent campaigns in the countries represented.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union near the end of the Twentieth Century, the former satellite nations in East Europe have moved toward the democratic process of free and fair elections. Now two prominent election experts have set out in one book all the basic information - text and tabular - that scholars and students of elections would want to know about free elections in post-Communist Europe since 1990. In Elections & Parties in New European Democracies, Professors Richard Rose and Neil Munro provide an overview and systematic comparison of electoral systems, parties, and voting in eleven countries including comparisons with established democracies such as the United States and Britain. In addition to chapters explaining and analyzing recent elections, the authors provide a country-by-country set of tables with a full list of all party names and acronyms in English and the national language; vote and seat totals; and details of the electoral system; and, where appropriate, a brief reference to elections in the pre-Communist era. Their examination includes basic socio-demographic data, such as population and standard of living, as well as examinations about the degree of freedom and fairness in each political system. The eleven countries in the book are: Russia plus the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Romania, the ten countries now seeking admission to the European Union. Contests include national parliamentary elections and presidential ballots where the president is directly elected. For their data the authors draw on election results from official and definitive sources in eleven different languages, and nationwide sample surveys of voters in all eleven countries.
Change and Adaptation in Party Organizations in Western Democracies
The empirical analysis of party organizations and party organizational change has long remained one of the least developed fields of study in comparative politics. Despite much discussion about the supposed "crisis of party" and the "decline of party" in Western democracies, we still know remarkably little about what goes on inside political parties. This book takes a look inside political parties, bringing together the findings of an international team of leading scholars. Building on a 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 been involved in gathering data on party membership, party finance and the internal structure of power. They add to the analysis of these data a knowledge of the wider political patterns in their countries, and thus provide insight into the development of parties and party systems from the perspective of the party organizations themselves. Offering a systematic and comparable analysis of how parties organize in contemporary Europe and the United States, this volume should be useful reading for scholars and students of comparative politics and party politics.
'Janet Newman's 'Modernizing Governance' provides a comprehensive and thorough critique of contemporary public sector reforms. The book combines an impressive synthesis of theoretical perspectives with a deep understanding of the practice of public policy making and management. The contradictions within a shift to governance are clearly ......
