Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Political Process - Political Parties

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The United States has scores of potential issues and ideologies but only two major political parties. How parties respond to competing demands for their attention is therefore central to American democracy. First to the Party argues that organized groups set party agendas by invading party nominations to support candidates committed to their interests. Where the nominees then go, the parties also go.

Using in-depth archival research and interviews with activists, Christopher Baylor applies this proposition to the two most important party transformations of the twentieth...

Little is known about the likely influences of these parties on public policies and if and how they have responded to expectations of voters when deciding on policies.

This book explains the conditions under which political parties have played a central role in policymaking, and influencing economic growth, in post-communist European countries, highlighting two essentially related areas: higher education and international trade and investment. It illustrates how these countries have become reliant on multinational companies (MNCs), given their governments' strategy to...

What shapes the cultural, political and ideological values of young people living in Southeastern Europe? Which identities matter to them? How are their values changing, and how can they be changed? Who is changing them? Europe's periphery is the testing ground for the success of European values and identities. The future stability and political coherence of the Union will be determined in large measure by identity issues in this region.

This book examines the ways in which ethnic and national values and identities have been surpassed as the overriding focus in the...

Tony Blair's New Labour disavowed the 1980s left, associating it...