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Electoral Engineering
| Author | : Pippa Norris |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2004-02-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521536714 |
From Kosovo to Kabul, the last decade witnessed growing interest in ?electoral engineering?. Reformers have sought to achieve either greater government accountability through majoritarian arrangements or wider parliamentary diversity through proportional formula. Underlying the normative debates are important claims about the impact and consequences of electoral reform for political representation and voting behavior. The study compares and evaluates two broad schools of thought, each offering contracting expectations. One popular approach claims that formal rules define electoral incentives facing parties, politicians and citizens. By changing these rules, rational choice institutionalism claims that we have the capacity to shape political behavior. Alternative cultural modernization theories differ in their emphasis on the primary motors driving human behavior, their expectations about the pace of change, and also their assumptions about the ability of formal institutional rules to alter, rather than adapt to, deeply embedded and habitual social norms and patterns of human behavior.
The Evolution of Electoral and Party Systems in the Nordic Countries
| Author | : Arend Lijphart |
| Publisher | : Algora Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0875861687 |
"This is a book that all scholars of electoral systems or electoral history will need to read, and most will want to own. Much of the historical material reported is not available anywhere else in English, and much of it appears to be first-time reports of primary materials. Quite readable and very well-organized." -Cambridge Univ. Press referee
Comparative Democratic Politics
| Author | : Hans Keman |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2002-03-26 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1446224848 |
Democracy is the most widely used way of organizing politics in the contemporary world. Comparative Democratic Politics brings together a team of renowned international scholars to provide a comprehensive review of theory and research in this essential area of comparative study. A key aim to the book is to introduce and understand representative democracy as a political process and contemporary system of governance in need of constant attention and scrutiny. Four important themes include: · the contribution of comparative politics as a distinct field within political science to our understanding of democracy, democratic politics and democratic theory · what we can learn from a comparative analysis of the role, functioning and behaviour of the principal actors (electorate, parties and institutions) across nations · the relationship between politics and public policy formation and processes of democratic decision-making and corresponding policy-making capacity · how we measure contemporary democracy or democratic performance in both a procedural and material sense. Comparative Democratic Politics will afford new and important insights to the contemporary study of representative democracy. It will be essential reading for all students and academics of political science and public policy seeking a deeper understanding of both the world′s so called established and emerging democracies.
Radical Right
| Author | : Pippa Norris |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2005-08-22 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521849142 |
This book, first published in 2005, explains why radical right parties have advanced in a diverse array of democracies.
Economic Growth
| Author | : Philip Arestis |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2007-01-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781847205216 |
Focuses on the nature, causes and features of economic growth across a range of countries and regions. This title covers a variety of growth related topics - from theoretical analyses of economic growth in general to empirical analyses of growth in the OECD, transition economies and developing economies. This enlightening and significant new volume focuses on the nature, causes and features of economic growth across a wide range of countries and regions. Covering a variety of growth related topics - from theoretical analyses of economic growth in general to empirical analyses of growth in the OECD, transition economies and developing economies - the distinguished cast of contributors address some of the most important contemporary issues and developments in the field. These include, amongst others: endogenous growth theory, Keynesian theories of the business cycle and growth, unemployment and growth, FDI and productivity spillovers, and knowledge externalities and growth. This useful analysis of the many facets of economic growth will be an essential read for those interested in economic theory and economic policy-making, as well as students and scholars of macroeconomics and finance.
Before Norms
| Author | : Robert W. Jackman |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2009-12-21 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 047202406X |
The potato famines of the nineteenth century were long attributed to Irish indolence. The Stalinist system was blamed on a Russian proclivity for autocracy. Muslim men have been accused of an inclination to terrorism. Is political behavior really the result of cultural upbringing, or does the vast range of human political action stem more from institutional and structural constraints? This important new book carefully examines the role of institutions and civic culture in the establishment of political norms. Jackman and Miller methodically refute the Weberian cultural theory of politics and build in its place a persuasive case for the ways in which institutions shape the political behavior of ordinary citizens. Their rigorous examination of grassroots electoral participation reveals no evidence for even a residual effect of cultural values on political behavior, but instead provides consistent support for the institutional view. Before Norms speaks to urgent debates among political scientists and sociologists over the origins of individual political behavior. Robert W. Jackman is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. Ross A. Miller is Associate Professor of Political Science at Santa Clara University.
Europeanised Politics?
| Author | : Klaus H. Goetz |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1136336796 |
This comparative examination of the impact of European integration on the politics and government of EU member states covers the parties, the legal system, voters and public administration.
Elections in Asia and the Pacific : A Data Handbook
| Author | : Dieter Nohlen |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 876 |
| Release | : 2001-11-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0191530425 |
This two-volume work continues the series of election data handbooks published by OUP. It presents a first-ever compendium of electoral data for all the 62 states in Asia, Australia and Oceania from their independence to the present. Following the overall structure of the series, an initial comparative introduction on elections and electoral systems is followed by chapters on each state of the region. Written by knowledgeable and renowned scholars, the contributions examine the evolution of institutional and electoral arrangements, and provide systematic surveys of the up-to-date electoral provisions and their historical development. Exhaustive statistics on national elections and referendums are given in each chapter. Together with the other books of this series, Elections in Asia and the Pacific is a highly reliable resource for historical and cross-national comparisons of elections and electoral systems world-wide. The second volume of Elections in Asia and the Pacific covers the Asia-Pacific area, i.e. the 30 independent states of East Asia (including Japan), South East Asia and the South Pacific (including Australia and New Zealand).
Electoral Systems
| Author | : David M. Farrell |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2011-01-04 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1137285508 |
Electoral Systems examines the six principle types of electoral system currently in use in more than seventy of the world's democracies. A common format is adopted throughout, dealing with explanations of how the system operates and its effects on the political system. Electoral Systems examines the six principle types of electoral system currently in use in more than seventy of the world's democracies. A common format is adopted throughout, dealing with explanations of how the system operates and its effects on the political system.
