A survey of modern political parties and their role in contemporary democracy. It argues that parties have survived popular cynicism by remodelling themselves to the needs of an era in which patterns of linkage and communication with social groups have been transformed.[...]
The sister volume to Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, this book offers a systematic and rigorous analysis of parties in some of the world's major new democracies. Drawing on a wealth of expertise and data, the book assesses the popular legitimacy, organizational development and [...]
Dr. Otis Brawley is the chief medical and scientific officer of the American Cancer Society, an oncologist with a dazzling clinical, research, and policy career. In "How We Do Harm" he exposes the underbelly of healthcare today - the under treatment of the poor, the over treatment of the rich, the f[...]