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"Political parties are taken for granted today, but how was the idea of party viewed in the eighteenth century, when core components of modern, representative politics were trialled? From Bolingbroke to Burke, political thinkers regarded party as a fundamental concept of politics, especially in the parliamentary system of Great Britain. The paradox of party was best formulated by David Hume: whilst parties often threatened the total dissolution of the government, they were also the source of life and vigour in modern politics. In the eighteenth century, party was usually understood as a set of flexible and evolving principles, associated with names and traditions, which categorised and managed political actors, voters, and commentators. In other words, Max Skjönsberg persuasively demonstrates that the idea of party as ideological unity is not purely a nineteenth- or twentieth-century phenomenon but can be traced to the eighteenth century"--

The discussion of Lipset-Rokkan's theory of cleavages leads to the conclusion that communism left behind the post-communist cleavage. The cleavage manifested itself in electoral behavior, the party system, and the attitudes of party elites. The author considers whether the post-communist cleavage will survive in Poland.

"This book is my answer to Trump-the-question. Because Mr. Trump stirs up so much controversy, I knew that only hard evidence could keep me from being tossed about in his wake. So I have assembled a great quantity of data here, looking exhaustively at Trump's speeches, his press conferences, his debates, and his incessant tweets. But these data mean little by themselves. It is only when one compares them to what the press has written that one begins to get the full measure of the man, a project also advanced by looking at what everyday citizens have said when writing letters to the editors or when responding to nationwide surveys. Donald Trump, I came to believe, can only be understood by triangulation."--

Das Buch beschreibt die transformative Macht der EU im Bereich der Gleichstellungspolitik in Polen und Deutschland von 2004 bis 2012. Das Buch beinhaltet eine Analyse des nationalen Rechts aus der Perspektive der Umsetzung von EU-Richtlinien sowie Interviews mit Expertinnen und Experten in diesem Bereich. Es identifiziert die wichtigsten Akteure, die die Umsetzung des EU-Rechts unterstützen oder behindern, sowie die soziokulturellen Bedingungen des Umsetzungsprozesses und dessen endgültige Ergebnisse in beiden Ländern; diese zeigen, dass jeder EU-Mitgliedstaat aufgrund der einzigartigen Konfiguration der nationalen Akteure und Bedingungen ein anderes Endergebnis der Umsetzung des gleichen EU-Rechts entwickelt und daher die transformative Macht der EU zu divergierenden Ergebnissen in verschiedenen Mitgliedstaaten führt.

"The American School of Empire considers how an American idea of empire evolved in the 1790s and would shape and be shaped by the literature and art of the early US. Hamilton's introductory essay suggests that empire was as important to the foundation of the US as concepts like democracy, freedom, nation, and republic. This book thus begins from the premise that the history of empire in the United States can be traced back to the inception of the country, if not earlier. It contends that the United States was conceived as an empire, culturally, politically, and legally. Empire, as a broad theory for organizing not only the state but also the understanding of difference and the relationship to space, in other words, was a crucial conceptual frame shaping the culture of the early US"--Provided by publisher

Introduction: Rebuilding governance, politics, and policy in New Orleans -- Pre-Katrina New Orleans -- Reform and economic development -- Democracy vs. reform in pre-Katrina education -- The most reform friendly city in the country -- From neglect and mismanagement to reform and development in housing -- The most brutal police? -- Conclusion: The effects of sudden shocks on governance, politics, and policy

Promised you a miracle is the extraordinary untold story of Britain's revolution in the head: a shift in mass consciousness in which an old, self-doubting nation was transformed into something else: outward-looking, materialistic, colourful, lonely and cruel. In the early eighties, a new world was messily brought into being: a miner's son transformed the rubble-strewn flatness of London's docklands into a new city centre of high rise and high finance; austere post-punk bands abandoned their leftwing politics and grey overcoats for glossy Trans-Atlantic careers; a loose-tongued, PR-savvy young socialist seized London's city hall and a small start-up in West Yorkshire, in the middle of the Falklands War, made a gadget the size of a gold bar that stopped the British task force from being blown apart. Leading us into these years of brittle optimism and upheaval, Andy Beckett asks why Britain changed so rapidly and fundamentally; what it felt like to be part of this convulsive change - or to be left behind; and how people were swept up in it, sometimes without realizing. Yet the effects of this revolution would ripple outwards, across the world - and we are still living with the consequences, happily or otherwise