And one of these parties has taken on the role of insurgent outlier; the Republicans have become ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, and ardently opposed to the established social and economic policy regime.In It's Even Worse ...

This volume continues the series of election data handbooks published by OUP.

The Republican Party is the vehicle of an ideological movement whereas the Democratic Party is a coalition of social groups with concrete policy concerns.

Here, Michael F. Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written.

This text explains the causes and consequences of 'The Great Risk Shift' and what can be done to reverse it.

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War.

A well-documented and extremely engaging account of the Burmese Communist Party that details the development of the Party and the events and forces that led to the 1989 Mutiny and subsequent fall of the CPB.

In the first historical book-length study of Chicago '68, Farber offers a lively and detailed account that re-creates all the excitement and drama, violently charged action and language, of this period of crisis in American culture and ...

Politics as Development analyzes one aspect of that process, the emergence of political parties in the 1870s and the 1880s, especially the creation of the Serbian Radical Party under the leadership of Nikola Pasic.

In analyzing their responses, Berman makes a convincing case for the important role ideas play in politics.