О книге «По ту сторону ориентализма. Ахмад ибн Касим аль-Хаджари между Европой и Северной Африкой»
Постколониальные исследователи ломают голову, как писать историю культурных посредников между метрополией и периферией, не превращая их в безмолвных информаторов или героев-одиночек. Литературоведу Умельбанин Жири удалось соблюсти баланс и реконструировать жизнь марроканского полиглота Ахмада ибн Касима аль-Хаджари увлекательно, но вместе с тем методологически честно.
Peter Mair - Party System Change. Approaches and Interpretations
This is the first full-length book to examine how we interpret evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems. Focusing primarily on processes of political adaptation and control, it also concerns how parties and party systems generate their own momentum and "freeze" themselves into place. Amid the widespread contemporary discussions of the challenge to modern democracy and the crisis of traditional forms of political representation, if offers a welcome emphasis on how party systems survive, and on how change, when it does occur, may be analyzed and understood.
Political Parties and Electoral Change. Party Responses to Electoral Markets
How have Europe's mainstream political parties responded to the long-term decline in voter loyalties? What are the consequences of this change in the electoral markets in which parties now operate? Popular disengagement, disaffection, and withdrawal on the one hand, and increasing popular support for protest parties on the other, have become the hallmarks of modern European politics. This book provides an excellent account of how political parties in Western Europe are perceiving and are responding to these contemporary challenges of electoral dealignment. Each chapter employs a common format to present and compare the changing strategies of established parties and party systems in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, and Ireland. The result is an invaluable portrait of the changing electoral environment and how parties are interacting with each another and voters today. Political Parties and Electoral Change is essential reading for anybody seeking a deeper understanding of contemporary electoral politics and of the challenges facing west European party systems.