The book's analysis shows the limits of alternative explanations and substantiates a sanguine view of programmatic competition, while nevertheless recognizing that this form of party system organization is far from ubiquitous and enduring in Latin America.
Seven years ago, the Natural Law Party was founded to create a new mainstream political party that would offer voters forward-looking. prevention-oriented, commonsense solutions to America's problems. Here is the remarkable story of the party's founding and its successful efforts to enter the national political arena, as well as the party's point-by-point platform to lead the country into the n…
Men in White is the inside story of one of the world's most successful political parties the ruling People's Action Party of Singapore. With its victory in the 2006 polls, PAP has won 12 successive general elections since it assumed power in 1959. Narrated in three parts, Men in White chronicles the rise, fall, capture, split, and rise of a political party which has become synonymous with th…
For thirty years, Hezbollah has played a pivotal role in Lebanese and global politics. That visibility has invited Hezbollah’s lionization and vilification by outside observers, and at the same time has prevented a clear-eyed view of Hezbollah’s place in the history of the Middle East and its future course of action. Now part of the Lebanese government, Hezbollah nevertheless remains in…
The contents of this book: 1. The 1955 System: Origin and Transformation 2. Rearmament Controversis and Cultural Conflict in Japan: The Case of the Conservation 3. The Japan Socialist Party before the Mid-1960s
China’s political and economic growth in the past three decades has been one of astonishing, epochal dimensions. The most remarkable part of this transformation, however, has been left largely untold—the central role of the Chinese Communist Party. McGregor delves deeply into China’s inner sanctum for the first time, showing how the Communist Party controls the government, courts, media, …
This book is the first comprehensive account of the influence of ideology on contemporary British politics. It examines the extent to which parties can be considered to have pursued ideological objectives and presents a sustained analysis of the relationship between theory and practice in British politics.
This book examines recent humanitarian catastrophes involving such groups and suggests how the society of states may develop a col- lective capacity for human-rights enforcement.
Divine Violence is a major contribution to our understanding of the process by which the State's discourses can elaborate the enemy and thus 'reason' a practice of torture and ritualized destruction of the 'other.' Graziano explains how and why denial underlines this nexus of religious, sexual, and violent impulses in the politics of atrocity. A chilling account.
The breakdown of authoritarian regimes and the transition to more open forms of government and new market structures require extensive change, especially when such shifts lead to the disintegration of previous political, social, and economic systems. In his exploration of the Portuguese case, Lawrence Graham contends that during transitions the absence of a civilian-based opposition movement wi…