What has happened to the European radical left after the collapse of the USSR? How has it reacted, reformed, even revived? This new volume is the first to provide an extensive answer. It will focus both on communists and non-communists, and will address their non-parliamentary and international activity through a pan-European perspective. It will be of interest to students and ...(展开全部)

How should one understand the nature and possibilities of political radicalism today? The political radical is normally thought of as someone who stands on the left, opposing backward-looking conservatism. In the present day, however, the left has turned defensive, while the right has become radical, advocating the free play of market forces no matter what obstacles of traditio...(展开全部)

答谢词 第一章 美国政治中的中介组织 第一节 政治的和管理的环境 第二节 政党的定义和研究政党的方法 一、政党的定义 （一）入党的方法 （二）政党的目标 二、研究政党 政党的组成 第三节 政党的作用系统的功能 （一）支持民主 （二）管理冲突和促成冲突 （三）改善权力的分配 （四）监控“游戏规则” （五）增加选民 （六）征募和训练候选人 （七）增强竞选运动和通知投票人 第四节 党组织和与它们竞争的中介组织 一、利益集团的挑战 二、以候选人为中心的组织 三、媒体 四、顾问 第五节 政党的使命结束了吗？ 一、政党功能的衰微 二、执政党的衰落 三、选民中政党的消退 四、党组织的衰微 第六节 政党会迎来一个新时代吗？ 第七节 技术所扮演的角色 第八节 结论 第二章 美国政党制度的起源和发展． 第一节 1770—1824年：美国政党制度的第一阶段 第二节 182...(展开全部)

This timely book explores the unique challenges facing the left in Latin America today. The contributors offer clear and comprehensive assessments of the difficult conditions and conflicting forces that have brought to power the current leftist regimes in Latin American and the Caribbean and are shaping their development. Avoiding the widely accepted but simplistic dichotomy of...(展开全部)

This timely book explores the unique challenges facing the left in Latin America today. The contributors offer clear and comprehensive assessments of the difficult conditions and conflicting forces that have brought to power the current leftist regimes in Latin American and the Caribbean and are shaping their development. Avoiding the widely accepted but simplistic dichotomy of...(展开全部)

For courses in Twentieth Century Europe. Written by a noted intellectual historian, this concise, interpretive history of twentieth-century European society and civilization surveys the full range of social, political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic events - from pre-World War I to the 1990s.

Europe's social model – its system of welfare and social protection – is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over recent years, however, the social model has come under great strain in many states within the European Union – unemployment, for examp...(展开全部)

At the very heart of cities and villages, churches, cathedrals and basilicas have shaped the landscape in Europe to a great extent. Their architecture bears witness to the skills of craftsmen and the mystic fervor that led to their building. It reveals essential details about their architecture and historical meaning.