Explaining and Predicting Elections: Issue Effects and Party Strategies in Twenty-Three Democracies

Politics & Social Sciences

Budge, Ian

Farlie, Dennis J.

Politics & Government

Unwin Hyman

Political parties are the central link in modern democracies: they get support from electors for their policies and put them into practice in government. At least, according to democratic theory. This book examines the actual behavior of 500 governments in 20 postwar democracies (including the East European Community, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Israel) to determine how parties operate government. It concludes that parties do function more or less as modern democratic theory says they should, and provides an understanding of not only how democratic government works but also its moral justification.  The Comparative European Politics series, published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research, is designed for students and teachers of political science and related disciplines. Each volume will provide an up-to-date survey of the current state of knowledge and research on an issue of major significance in European government and politics.

Parties and Democracy: Coalition Formation and Government Functioning in Twenty States (Comparative European Politics)

Keman, Hans

Oxford University Press

This book examines the actual behavior of 400 governments in 20 postwar democracies (including those of Western Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Israel) to determine how political parties operate and shape the special characteristics of individual governments. It concludes that parties do function more or less as modern democratic theory says they should, and provides an understanding of democratic government and its moral justification.

Parties and Democracy: Coalition Formation and Government Functioning in Twenty States (Comparative Politics)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

How does representative democracy work in the modern age? Examining 21 post-war democracies, this strikingly innovative approach by two world-class scholars demonstrates how the voter in the middle--the median elector--empowers the centre party in parliament to translate political preferences into public policy.

Elections, Parties, Democracy: Conferring the Median Mandate (Comparative Politics)

McDonald, Michael D.

Legal Theory & Systems

This bold venture into democratic theory offers a new and reinvigorating thesis for how democracy delivers on its promise of public control over public policy. In theory, popular control could be achieved through a process entirely driven by supply-side politics, with omniscient and strategic political parties converging on the median voter's policy preference at every turn. However, this would imply that there would be no distinguishable political parties (or even any reason for parties to exist) and no choice for a public to make. The more realistic view taken here portrays democracy as an ongoing series of give and take between political parties' policy supply and a mass public's policy demand. Political parties organize democratic choices as divergent policy alternatives, none of which is likely to satisfy the public's policy preferences at any one turn. While the one-off, short-run consequence of a single election often results in differences between the policies that parliaments and governments pursue and the preferences their publics hold, the authors construct theoretical arguments, employ computer simulations, and follow up with empirical analysis to show how, why, and under what conditions democratic representation reveals itself over time. Democracy, viewed as a process rather than a single electoral event, can and usually does forge strong and congruent linkages between a public and its government. This original thesis offers a challenge to democratic pessimists who would have everyone believe that neither political parties nor mass publics are up to the tasks that democracy assigns them.Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, and researchers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu (http://www.ecprnet.eu)The Comparative Politics series is edited by Professor David M. Farrell, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Kenneth Carty, Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia, and Professor Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Institute of Political Science, Philipps University, Marburg.

Organizing Democratic Choice: Party Representation Over Time (Comparative Politics)

McDonald, Michael

Pennings, Paul

Social Sciences

Cornelius Belfast: Approach to Crisis

O'Leary, Cornelius

St Martins Pr

Belfast: Approach to Crisis- A Study of Belfast Politics, 1613-1970

St.Martin's Press

Politics: A Unified Introduction to How Democracy Works

This comprehensive introduction to politics provides an essential template for assessing the health and workings of present day democracy by exploring how democratic processes bring public policy into line with popular preferences. Incorporating the latest findings from Big Data across the world, it provides a crucial framework showing students how to deploy these for themselves, providing straightforward, practical orientation to the scope and methods of modern political science. Key features: <ul> <li>Everyday politics is explained through concrete applications to democracies across the world;</li> <li>Predictive theories illuminate what goes on at various levels of democracy;</li> <li>Outlines - in easy to understand terms - the basic statistical approaches that enable empirically-informed analysis;</li> <li>Rich textual features include chapter summaries, reviews, key points, illustrative briefings, key concepts, project and essay suggestions, relevant reading all clearly explained in 'How to Use This Book';</li> <li>Provides a firm basis for institutional and normative approaches to democratic politics;</li> <li>Concluding section reviews other approaches to explaining politics, assessing their strengths and weaknesses.</li> </ul> Politicsis an essential resource for students of political science and of key interest to economics, public policy analysis and more broadly the social sciences. textual features include chapter summaries, reviews, key points, illustrative briefings, key concepts, project and essay suggestions, relevant reading all clearly explained in 'How to Use This Book'; <ul> <li>Provides a firm basis for institutional and normative approaches to democratic politics;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Concluding section reviews other approaches to explaining politics, assessing their strengths and weaknesses.</li> </ul> Politicsis an essential resource for students of political science and of key interest to economics, public policy analysis and more broadly the social sciences.

Routledge

This comprehensive introduction to politics provides an essential template for assessing the health and workings of present day democracy by exploring how democratic processes bring public policy into line with popular preferences. Incorporating the latest findings from Big Data across the world, it provides a crucial framework showing students how to deploy these for themselves, providing straightforward, practical orientation to the scope and methods of modern political science. Key features: <ul>
<li>Everyday politics is explained through concrete applications to democracies across the world;</li> <li>Predictive theories illuminate what goes on at various levels of democracy;</li> <li>Outlines - in easy to understand terms - the basic statistical approaches that enable empirically-informed analysis;</li> <li>Rich textual features include chapter summaries, reviews, key points, illustrative briefings, key concepts, project and essay suggestions, relevant reading all clearly explained in ‘How to Use This Book’;</li> <li>Provides a firm basis for institutional and normative approaches to democratic politics;</li> <li>Concluding section reviews other approaches to explaining politics, assessing their strengths and weaknesses.</li> </ul>
Politics is an essential resource for students of political science and of key interest to economics, public policy analysis and more broadly the social sciences.

The Changing British Political System: Into the 1990s

MCKAY, David

Longman Publishing Group

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