ilość książek w kategorii: 4574
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Germany's New Right as Culture and Politics
ISBN: 9781349353019 / Angielski / Miękka / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 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 a political and a cultural movement. The book examines the often contradictory motives that feed into New Right political pronouncements and explores the cultural thinking that feeds into extreme political commitment.
This 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 a political and a ...
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201,24 |
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Sex, Gender and the Conservative Party: From Iron Lady to Kitten Heels
ISBN: 9781349326747 / Angielski / Miękka / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As leader of the Conservative party, David Cameron inherited a multi-faceted gender problem: only 17 women MPs; an unhappy women's organization; electorally uncompetitive policies 'for women'; and a party which was seemingly unattractive to women voters. This book is an account of the feminization of the party since 2005.
As leader of the Conservative party, David Cameron inherited a multi-faceted gender problem: only 17 women MPs; an unhappy women's organization; elect...
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201,24 |
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Gender and Political Recruitment: Theorizing Institutional Change
ISBN: 9781349444717 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the gendered dynamics of institutional innovation, continuity and change in candidate selection and recruitment. Drawing on the insights of feminist institutionalism, it extends the 'supply and demand model' of political recruitment via a micro-level case study of the candidate selection process in post-devolution Scotland.
This book explores the gendered dynamics of institutional innovation, continuity and change in candidate selection and recruitment. Drawing on the ins...
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201,24 |
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Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s: The Challenge to Public Service
ISBN: 9781349328338 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Patricia Holland offers a fascinating study of the ways in which changes to public services, and shifts in the concept of 'the public' under Margaret Thatcher's three Conservative governments, were mediated by radio and television in the 1980s.
Patricia Holland offers a fascinating study of the ways in which changes to public services, and shifts in the concept of 'the public' under Margaret ...
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201,24 |
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Modernising the Labour Party: Organisational Change Since 1983
ISBN: 9781349518272 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few parties have undergone such comprehensive organizational change as the Labour Party since 1983. Labour's organization once institutionalised the political exchange between office-seeking politicians and the party's policy-seeking trade union paymasters. Using accessible rational choice models, Thomas Quinn explores how consecutive election defeats prompted party leaders to modernize this structure to regain voters' trust, reducing union influence in policymaking, parliamentary candidate selection and leadership contests. The price may be a centralized party vulnerable to membership exit...
Few parties have undergone such comprehensive organizational change as the Labour Party since 1983. Labour's organization once institutionalised the p...
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The Long Search for a Third Way: The British Labour Party and the Italian Left Since 1945
ISBN: 9781349430017 / Angielski / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ilaria Favretto presents a detailed study which traces the origins of the Third Way by comparing the European Left's contemporary neo-revisionism with past revisionist attempts. Focussing its analysis on the British Labour Party and the Italian Left, The Long Search for a Third Way provides new interpretations and insights into the histories of both parties. The book is accessible not only to students and scholars, but also to the general reader interested in contemporary European politics.
Ilaria Favretto presents a detailed study which traces the origins of the Third Way by comparing the European Left's contemporary neo-revisionism with...
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402,53 |
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Watching the Watchers: Parliament and the Intelligence Services
ISBN: 9781349444328 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study offers the first detailed examination of the varied means by which parliament through its committees and the work of individual members has sought to scrutinise the British intelligence and security agencies and the government's use of intelligence.
This study offers the first detailed examination of the varied means by which parliament through its committees and the work of individual members has...
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201,24 |
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From Crisis to Coalition: The Conservative Party, 1997-2010
ISBN: 9781349359950 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 leadership of David Cameron. It covers all aspects of Conservative Party politics since 1997.
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 ...
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201,24 |
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The Left Party in Contemporary German Politics
ISBN: 9781349285372 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book in either English or German to analyse the development of Germany's newest political party, the Left Party. It compares and contrasts the party's development with that of Germany's most well-known outsider party - the Greens. It also analyses the party's performance in office in two eastern German Lander.
This is the first book in either English or German to analyse the development of Germany's newest political party, the Left Party. It compares and con...
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201,24 |
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Election Promises, Party Behaviour and Voter Perceptions
ISBN: 9781349331666 / Angielski / Miękka / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration of whether politicians are perceived to keep their election promises. While scholars claim that parties act on most of their election promises, citizens hold the opposite view. This 'Pledge Puzzle' guides Naurin in her analysis of the often referred to but not empirically investigated, 'conventional wisdom' about election promises.
An exploration of whether politicians are perceived to keep their election promises. While scholars claim that parties act on most of their election p...
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201,24 |
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The Political Ideology of Green Parties: From the Politics of Nature to Redefining the Nature of Politics
ISBN: 9781349424283 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Has a new political ideology emerged in the aftermath of the Sixties? Gayil Talshir examines the ideological evolution of green parties in Britain and Germany and traces the formation and transformations of a new type of ideology - a modular ideology. In the 1980s, the 'extraordinary opposition', New Left and ecology movements developed, a distinct and social vision that paved the political road for the transformation of democracy. Talshir explores this journey from the politics of nature to changing the nature of politics.
Has a new political ideology emerged in the aftermath of the Sixties? Gayil Talshir examines the ideological evolution of green parties in Britain and...
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402,53 |
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The Party Politics of the Eu and Immigration
ISBN: 9781349349715 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the changing nature of party competition in four West European countries. It pays special attention to how different ideological positions give rise to contradictory cues when parties engage with atypical election issues like the EU and immigration.
This book explores the changing nature of party competition in four West European countries. It pays special attention to how different ideological po...
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201,24 |
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The Communist Party of Great Britain Since 1920
ISBN: 9781349427093 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new single volume history of the Communist Party of Great Britain examining the party from its foundations in 1920 to its demise in the early 1990s. Drawing on original research and a reading of specialist texts, the authors analyze the rise and fall of the party and evaluate its role on the left of British politics. Whilst sympathetic to the ideals and commitment of many British communist activists, the book is sharply critical of much of the actual practice of the party.
A new single volume history of the Communist Party of Great Britain examining the party from its foundations in 1920 to its demise in the early 1990s....
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402,53 |
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The New Progressive Dilemma: Australia and Tony Blair's Legacy
ISBN: 9781349282395 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New Progressive Dilemma documents the international diffusion, ideological meaning and long-term political implications of the 'ideas' that informed the late twentieth-century revolution in thinking inside the British Labour Party - a revolution that had important antecedents in Australia.
The New Progressive Dilemma documents the international diffusion, ideological meaning and long-term political implications of the 'ideas' that inform...
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201,24 |
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Political Parties and Electoral Strategy: The Development of Party Organization in East Asia
ISBN: 9781349329571 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Astudy of processes of political party formation and change in new democracies. This book argues that to understand party organizations we need to focus on politicians' electoral strategies. The framework is used to analyze political party development in the new democracies of East Asia (South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia.)"
Astudy of processes of political party formation and change in new democracies. This book argues that to understand party organizations we need to foc...
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201,24 |
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Fractured Parties: How Recent Elections Have Exposed Weaknesses in American Political Parties
ISBN: 9781498539999 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America is so ethnically, geographically, socially, and spiritually diverse that a book on party strength in any other country would be less complex. The American state of democracy, however, is a pastiche of culture, economics, and community. Fractured Parties is a walk through America's history of political parties, and the difficulty they have in wrangling their candidates today. Parties were never part of the founding fathers' vision for the country, and yet they developed and remained following George Washington's presidency. American political parties have experienced weak and strong...
America is so ethnically, geographically, socially, and spiritually diverse that a book on party strength in any other country would be less complex. ...
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Party Reform: The Causes, Challenges, and Consequences of Organizational Change
ISBN: 9780198717164 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Party Reform is a new comparative study of the politics of party organization. The book provides a novel perspective in party scholarship and develops the concept of 'reform' as distinct from evolutionary and incremental processes of party change. As an outcome, reform is captured in deliberate and often very public changes to parties' organizational rules and processes. As a process, it offers a party the opportunity to 're-brand' and publicly alter its image, to emphasize certain strategic priorities over others, and to alter relationships of power within the party.
Analyzing... Party Reform is a new comparative study of the politics of party organization. The book provides a novel perspective in party scholarship and...
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Strategic Party Government: Why Winning Trumps Ideology
ISBN: 9780226424606 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is Congress mired in partisan polarization? The conventional answer is that members of Congress and their constituencies fundamentally disagree with one other along ideological lines. But Gregory Koger and Matthew J. Lebo uncover a more compelling reason that today's political leaders devote so much time to conveying their party's positions, even at the expense of basic government functions: Both parties want to win elections.
In Strategic Party Government, Koger and Lebo argue that Congress is now primarily a forum for partisan competition. In order to avoid losing,... Why is Congress mired in partisan polarization? The conventional answer is that members of Congress and their constituencies fundamentally disagree wi...
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Movement Parties Against Austerity
ISBN: 9781509511457 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ascendance of austerity policies and the wave of protests they have generated have had a deep impact on the shape of contemporary politics. The stunning electoral successes of Syriza in Greece, Podemos in Spain and the Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) in Italy, alongside the quest for a more radical left in countries such as the UK and the US, bear witness to a new wave of parties that draw inspiration and strength from social movements.
While dissatisfaction with traditional institutional politics continues apace, the rise of movement parties challenges simplistic expectations of a... The ascendance of austerity policies and the wave of protests they have generated have had a deep impact on the shape of contemporary politics. The st...
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Movement Parties Against Austerity
ISBN: 9781509511464 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ascendance of austerity policies and the wave of protests they have generated have had a deep impact on the shape of contemporary politics. The stunning electoral successes of Syriza in Greece, Podemos in Spain and the Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) in Italy, alongside the quest for a more radical left in countries such as the UK and the US, bear witness to a new wave of parties that draw inspiration and strength from social movements.
While dissatisfaction with traditional institutional politics continues apace, the rise of movement parties challenges simplistic expectations of a... The ascendance of austerity policies and the wave of protests they have generated have had a deep impact on the shape of contemporary politics. The st...
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87,59 |