The evolution of Japan's party system

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Luca Costantini

"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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Thomas R. Dye

Cutting-edge in approach, this book gives readers concrete tools for not only understanding public policy in general, but for analyzing specific public policies. It focuses on what policies governments pursue, why governments pursue the policies they do, and what the consequences of these policies are. Very contemporary in perspective, it introduces eight analytical models currently used by political scientists to describe and explain political life and then, using these various analytical models--singly and in combination--explores specific public policies in a variety of key domestic policy areas. Explores eight analytic models--rationalism, incrementalism, elitism, interest group conflict, institutionalism, game theory, public choice, and the familiar policy process model. Uses the various analytic models to describe and explain public policy in such areas as criminal justice, health and welfare, education, economic policy, taxation, international trade and immigration, environmental protection, civil rights, federalism, and national defense. For anyone interested in the complex dynamics of the public policy making process in relation to a broad range of contemporary issues.

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Robert P. Steed ... [et al

Much of the recent scholarship about American political parties has attempted to assess the condition of the party system. Are parties becoming increasingly obsolete? Have they forfeited the functions they traditionally performed? Or have they adopted a different role in the political system such that their achievements have gone unrecognized? In short, are American political parties in decline, resurgence, or what? Using information gathered from local party officials in the eleven southern states, the authors examine such key data as who becomes involved in local party organizations and why; how parties recruit and retain workers; what ideological and issue orientations motivate these activists; how intraparty factionalism affects local party organizations; and what connection exists between the party organization and its external environment.

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Mark Charlton and Paul Barker

"Contemporary Political Issues is a topical collection of provocative essays and readings designed to stimulate discussion while teaching real-world and relevant issues in Canadian politics. Each of the fourteen issues is explored by two leading authorities, one taking a side in support of the issue, the other opposing it. This text provides students with the opportunity to develop critical thinking skills, and each issue's Introduction and Postscript provide necessary context and synthesis."--Pub. desc.