Study overview -- The selection process puzzle and ideal candidate types -- Data and initial supply and demand tests -- Centralisation and the Labour Party's candidate selection process -- Assessing centralisation in the British Labour Party's selection process -- Assessing earl…
This expansive collection of A-Z entries offers a compelling look into hate groups in America. Focusing on organizations in operation today, this resource book for student and general audiences covers numerous hot-button issues in politics and culture.
Countering the powerful myth that the civil war in Russia was largely between the ""Whites"" and the ""Reds, "" Vladimir Brovkin views the struggle as a multifaceted social and political process. Brovkin focuses not so much on armies and governments as on the interaction of stat…
Countering the powerful myth that the civil war in Russia was largely between the "Whites" and the "Reds," Vladimir Brovkin views the struggle as a multifaceted social and political process. Brovkin focuses not so much on armies and governments as on the interaction of state ins…
This book challenges traditional notions of American party politics and political culture. Usually, American politics is looked on as relatively consensual and nonideological, but John Gerring argues that American party history and, by extension, American political history at la…
The transformation of the American electorate -- Why voters sort -- Have voters sorted? -- Testing competing explanations for sorting -- Untangling the causes of sorting -- How voters sort -- The impact of the sorted.
"In Dalit Politics, Amit Ahuja uses the Dalit case to develop a powerful new theory of the often orthogonal relationship between social and political mobilization. He argues that when a marginalized ethnic group's social mobilization precedes its electoral mobilization, the marg…
