Political Parties, Games and Redistribution

ISBN-13: 9780521793582 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 270 str.

Rosa Mule

Opis

This book explores the impact of party politics on income redistribution policy in liberal democracies. Rosa Mule illustrates how public policy on inequality is influenced by strategic interactions among party leaders, applying game theory to detailed case studies of party dynamics. This book provides a comparative in-depth examination of Canada, Australia, Britain and the United States, blending sophisticated quantitative techniques with qualitative, analytic narratives. Mule evaluates her findings against a broad range of theories, and offers a valuable new perspective to students of public policy and political parties.

Recenzje

'This is a complex, provocative and theoretically sophisticated book that breaks new ground in the study of income redistribution policy and presents a powerful argument about the relevance of intra-party conflict to the development of redistributive politics in four liberal democracies during the past three decades.' Democratization

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Political parties and redistribution; 2. Opposition effects, blackmail game and u-turns under Pierre Elliot Trudeau; 3. The arithmetics of politics under Margaret Thatcher; 4. Rightwing ascendancy, pivotal player and asymmetric power under Bob Hawke; 5. The demise of the federal social safety net under Clinton; 6. Conclusions.