Democratic Politics and Party Competition

ISBN-13: 9780415599474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 316 str.

Judith Bara;Albert Weale;¬Abar

Opis

Introduces innovative research on democracy from the leading Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP). This book details the key achievements of the project, illustrates how its findings may be applied, lays out the future challenges it faces and examines how the field as a whole can advance. It is of interest to students of politics and democracy.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Comparative Study of Democracy  Part 1. Applications  1. Party Government Formation and Policy Preferences: Keman and Budge Revisited  2. A Common Space for Electors and Parties? Comparing Electoral and Party Position on the Left-Right Continuum  3. Parties in Democracy, Democracy in Parties  4. Party Families and European Parliament Party Groups  5. Do Parties Reflect Public Concerns?  Part 2. Challenges  6. Does the Median Voter Theorem Wipe Out Political Participation?  7. The Dimensionality of Party Ideologies  8. Occam No, Archimedes Yes  9. Political Space and Its Inhabitants  10. 'Party Defined' Spaces Revisited  Part 3. Extensions  11. Why Does Ideology Figure so Little in Vote Models When It Looms so Large in Models of Party Competition?  12. What Do We Want Elections to Do and How Do We Want Them to Do It?  13. Conceptions of Political Tolerance in Great Britain and the United States  14. Preference Shaping Theories  15. Democratic Welfarism and Its Normative Basis