This is the first comprehensive analysis of how Sinn Féin has transformed itself from political wing of the Republican movement to a mainstream force in Irish politics. In this book by one of Ireland's leading political journalists, Deaglán de Bréadún provides an incisive account of how the party has arrived at a position, in the space of one generation, where it is in power north of the border and knocking on the door of government in the south.
This book collects a number of Martin Shefter's most important articles on political parties. They address three questions: Under what conditions will strong party organizations emerge? What influences the character of parties - in particular, their reliance on patronage? In what circumstances will the parties that formerly dominated politics in a nation or city come under attack? Shefter's work exemplifies the "new institutionalism" in political science, arguing that the reliance of parties on patronage is a function not so much of mass political culture as of their relationship with public bureaucracies. The book's opening chapters analyze the circumstances conducive to the emergence of strong political parties and the changing balance between parties and bureaucracies in Europe and America. The middle chapters discuss the organization and exclusion of the American working classes by machine and reform regimes. The book concludes by examining party organizations as instruments of political control in the largest American city, New York.
An unprecedented shift in American political power is underway. In the last decade of the 20th century, there is a leader whose program is debated in town halls and union halls across America, whose first name has become a household word, who addresses the nation in televised speeches from his office, and whose offhand remarks make headlines across the country. He resides not in the Oval Office but at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue: in the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Newt Gingrich, who studied and planned and labored so long to create a new conservative majority, has become what *Time* magazine calls “the virtual president” and “the preeminent political leader in America.” But what road led him to this extraordinary destination? The Washington press corps once dismissed him as a flaky bomb-thrower, the “congressman from Outer Space,” fascinated with wave theories and addicted to partisan mudslinging. Today, that same corps scrambles to make sense of Newt Gingrich, triumphant leader of a new conservative majority. With **Newt! Leader of the Second American Revolution** Dick Williams provides the first up-close, thoughtful study of the man and the ideas that have made this revolution. Their first encounter came in 1976 when Newt, a fresh-faced college professor struggling to win election to Congress, paid a visit to Dick, news director of an Atlanta TV station. In the two decades since, Dick Williams has become one of the South’s most respected conservative commentators, chronicling the building Republican revolution now overtaking American politics. Along the way he interviewed Newt hundreds of times and watched the development of a fresh and promising new political philosophy. From Gingrich’s beginnings as a popular but quirky professor, to his early campaign defeats, to his growing influence as a new breed congressional conservative, to his battles with the Democratic leadership and his own Republican president, to the birth and stunning success of the Contract With America, **Newt! Leader of the Second American Revolution** takes you behind the scenes of one of the most dramatic political stories of our time. Including excerpts from Newt’s now-famous college lecture series and other important speeches, Dick Williams gives readers a rare, balanced look at the history of a modern political revolution . . . and where it may lead us next. For Newt, ideas matter, and education is forever. These are his ideas. For fans and foes alike, the education begins here.
From the long-term threat of nuclear war between the United States and China, to the disappearance of the African elephant due to Chinese demand for ivory, each week brings a new round of critique and denunciation of the risks China poses to the stability of the entire planet. While critics raise a certain number of fundamental questions that bear asking about this nascent superpower, the answers put forth are usually based on ideological or economic considerations. Systematically challenges these views in this updated edition, with an incisive review of China's economic strategy, deployment of resources, national defense, political reform, ethnicity and religion, terrorism, and developments in human rights, Vairon amply demonstrates that China poses no threat to the world. --Publiosher's description.
"Traiciones políticas y sentimentales, intercambio de parejas, facciones y familias en lucha componen una narración política y humana del partido que quiso interpretar el espíritu de los indignados del 15-M. Un partido surgido del malestar de la crisis económica que quiso asaltar los cielos y llegar al paraíso en una apuesta por el doble o nada. Una estrategia basada en el golpe de efecto para arrebatarle al PSOE el cetro de la izquierda. Pero es también la historia de una generación de jóvenes políticos despiadados, arribistas, atrevidos y visionarios, tanto en el uso de las redes como de la televisión. AQUÍ MANDO YO desentraña por primera vez el fenómeno Iglesias y su modo de comunicación ideado por Silvio Berlusconi en Italia. Inédita es también la crónica de su conflicto con Íñigo Errejón, surgido, en contra de los que se cree, nada más celebrarse las elecciones europeas de 2014; así como la intrahistoria del carácter y los rasgos más íntimos de los protagonistas de este relato, desde el líder máximo de Podemos hasta Tania Sánchez e Irene Montero." --Back cover.
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