Chi analyzes changes in the Chinese Communist Party under the leadership of Deng, specifically Deng's efforts to expand the party's appeal from the rural areas to include urban intellectuals and his e
A study of the crucial election of 1896 that became a conflict between two great national myths—the yeoman farmer and the self-made man of success. “Well written and balanced in its judgments...[and]
Beginning with a brief introduction and a biographical sketch, the book traces Shaw's career and work as a public lecturer. The authors analyze Shaw's oratorical style and bring a sensitivity to the m
Douglas Kellner offers a systematic, critically informed political and institutional study of television in the United States. Focusing on the relationship among television, the state, and business, h
Women's quest for the vote Kent argues, was indissolubly linked with other feminist demands for reform which would overturn the cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity and determined thei
Dante Germino’s biography of the Italian communist and political theorist Antonio Gramsci offers a major reassessment of this important twentieth-century thinker. Germino analyzes Gramsci’s remarkable
This study traces the history of the national committee chairmanships of the two major political parties in the United States, emphasizing the national conventions and presidential campaigns - where n
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 t
The analysis of party systems in Western Europe has long constituted a major focus of concern in comparative political science. Now for the first time, many of the classic writings in this field have
This up-to-date assessment of the position of contemporary Western European Communist parties looks at Communist activity against the backdrop of changes in European leadership, policy, technology, an
This volume begins with the well-known premise that different voting procedures may lead to different outcomes. The author then fills a void in present literature by comparing voting procedures in ter
The outbreak of World War I precipitated a schism in the international socialist movement that endures today. Heeding calls for “rational defense,” the leading European socialist d
"[Mickelson] is a thoughtful observer of the process over the decades, and it is this wisdom and clarity that make this book so useful. It would make an excellent companion book in a course in politic
Concentrated in states outside the Northeast and the South, state-level third-party radical politics has been more widespread than many realize. In the 1920s and 1930s, American political organization
In this perspective, influential study of the Progressive movement, Mr. Wiebe shows how businessmen helped to shape--and were shaped by--social reform in the early years of the 20th century.
