Is the party over? Parties are the central institutions of representative democracy, but critics increasingly claim that parties are failing to perform their democratic functions. This book assembles unprecedented cross-national evidence to assess how parties link the individual…
Although Marx's writings on social transformation figured prominently in the global Left imagination for more than 150 years, by the late 20th century the relevance of Marxism was under question by both the Left (including Marxists) and the Right. Its revival in the second decad…
This book provides a novel and valuable contribution to the existing literature on political parties. The volume is based on the papers presented at an international symposium held at Leiden University, which brought together national and international scholars from the discipli…
Focuses on Islamism as a political ideology by taking up the case study of Jamaat-e-Islami in contemporary India and Bangladesh.
Rural protest groups and populist political parties
Rural protest groups and populist political parties
Analisa a situação política brasileira contemporânea, examinando a relativa debilidade dos partidos políticos brasileiros. Identifica a presença de elementos que prejudicam a constituição dos partidos, a consolidação de suas bases sociais e de sua própria identidade, a sua capac…