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The Invisible Hands of Political Parties in Presidential Elections
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 45.00This book looks at networks of individual donors during early stages of presidential primary electons to determine party unity. It directly challenges the commonly-held perception that a "divisive" primary is a problem for the political party in the general election. more...
Downfall: How the Labor Party Ripped Itself Apart
HarperCollins Publishers 2013; US$ 21.74In 2007 Australian Labor was one of the most successful centre left political parties in the world. Freshly triumphant from a federal election, it controlled states across Australia. Labor's frontbench was full of young, smart and progressive activists. Their leader's personal popularity rating was sky high. They had inherited a booming economy and... more...
The Changing Basis of Political Conflict in Advanced Western Democracies
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 45.00Political conflict in Western democracies has traditionally emerged from politics rooted in competing ideologies and interests. With the rise of politics of identity, political conflict is morphing as political parties align themselves with identities, rather than ideologies or interests. more...
The Political Battle over Congressional Redistricting
Lexington Books 2013; US$ 104.99In this volume, scholars from across the United States come together to discuss the most recent wave of redistricting Congress. Emphasizing the state-level factors and processes, the volume ultimately shows how national requirements and state requirements come together to permit states to be largely self-responsible for what they do in terms of... more...
Lula, the Workers' Party and the Governability Dilemma in Brazil
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00While scholars, activists and pundits from around the world have heralded the Lula years as a breakthrough for poverty reduction and the forthcoming emergence of Brazil as a dynamic economic superpower, many of their counterparts in the country as well as a number of Brazilianists elsewhere, have expressed great disappointment. Tracing back... more...
Why Labor Should Savour Its Greens: rebuilding a fractured alliance
Scribe Publications 2013; US$ 18.99Australia is suffering from a crisis of confidence. Globalisation, deregulation, and privatisation have delivered economic growth and enhanced consumption for the past twenty years, but the effects of the 2007?08 financial crisis, rising inequality, job insecurity, and increased corporate power over voters and employees are all eroding our sense of... more...
Change They Can't Believe In
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 29.95Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not white? Change They Can't Believe In offers an alternative argument--that the Tea Party is driven by the reemergence of a reactionary movement in American politics... more...
A Bad Day On The Romney Campaign
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 2.99Why did Romney lose? How can Republicans win? In A Bad Day on the Romney Campaign , Gabriel Schoenfeld, a senior adviser to presidential nominee Mitt Romney for nearly two years, is the first insider to speak out about the failures of the 2012 campaign. Why did Romney lose? The book illuminates the chain of errors that ultimately contributed... more...
Gender and Political Recruitment
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 90.00This 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. more...
5 Days in May
Biteback Publishing 2013; US$ 14.57When the May 2010 general election produced a hung parliament, Andrew Adonis and other senior Labour figures sat down for talks with the Liberal Democrat leadership to try to persuade them to govern Britain together in a Lib?Lab coalition. The talks ultimately resulted in failure for Labour, amid recriminations on both sides. Despite calls for him... more...









