Multiparty Electoral Competition In The Netherlands And Germany
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Multiparty Democracy
Author | : Norman Schofield |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2006-07-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139455257 |
This book adapts a formal model of elections and legislative politics to study party politics in Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States. The approach uses the idea of valence, that is, the party leader's non-policy electoral popularity, and employs survey data to model these elections. The analysis explains why small parties in Israel and Italy keep to the electoral periphery. In the Netherlands, Britain, and the US, the electoral model is extended to include the behavior of activists. In the case of Britain, it is shown that there will be contests between activists for the two main parties over who controls policy. For the recent 2005 election, it is argued that the losses of the Labour party were due to Blair's falling valence. For the US, the model gives an account of the rotation of the locations of the two major parties over the last century.
Democratic Politics and Party Competition
Author | : Judith Bara |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2006-09-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134173423 |
This new book introduces innovative research on democracy from the leading Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP). It details the key achievements of the project to date, 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 also presents a special assessment of the dimensionality of party competition, presenting ways in which research can be extended and related to broader approaches in Political Science and Theory. Although CMP research is widely used and constitutes the major comparative data set on party positions and ideological location, it is also subject to challenge. The volume therefore provides the reader with a clear sense of the key debates and questions surrounding its work. This volume also honours the life-time achievement of Professor Ian Budge, who has provided distinguished intellectual leadership for the CMP over the last twenty-five years. This is an essential point of reference for all comparative research on the functioning of democracies. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of politics and of democracy in particular.
Linking Citizens and Parties
Author | : Lawrence Ezrow |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2010-05-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199572526 |
Linking Citizens and Parties highlights the pathways through which citizens' political preferences are expressed by their political parties.
The Spatial Model of Politics
Author | : Norman Schofield |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2007-12-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134357397 |
Using unique and cutting-edge research, Schofield a prominent author in the US for a number of years, explores the growth area of positive political economy within economics and politics. The first book to explain the spatial model of voting from a mathematical, economics and game-theory perspective it is essential reading for all those studying positive political economy.
A Unified Theory of Voting
Author | : Samuel Merrill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1999-09-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521665490 |
Professors Merrill and Grofman develop a unified model that incorporates voter motivations and assesses its empirical predictions--for both voter choice and candidate strategy--in the United States, Norway, and France. The analyses show that a combination of proximity, direction, discounting, and party ID are compatible with the mildly but not extremely divergent policies that are characteristic of many two-party and multiparty electorates. All of these motivations are necessary to understand the linkage between candidate issue positions and voter preferences.
Matching Voters with Parties and Candidates
Author | : Diego Garzia |
Publisher | : ECPR Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2014-06-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1907301739 |
Voting Advice Applications – VAAs – have become a widespread online feature of electoral campaigns in Europe, attracting growing interest from social and political scientists. But until now, there has been no systematic and reliable comparative assessment of these tools. Previously published research on VAAs has resulted almost exclusively in national case studies. This lack of an integrated framework for analysis has made research on VAAs unable to serve the scientific goal of systematic knowledge accumulation. Against this background, Matching Voters With Parties and Candidates aims first at a comprehensive overview of the VAA phenomenon in a truly comparative perspective. Featuring the biggest number of European experts on the topic ever assembled, the book answers a number of open questions and addresses debates in VAA research. It also aims to bridge the gap between VAA research and related fields of political science.
Elections and Voters
Author | : Cees Van der Eijk |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2009-09-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 113701363X |
This major new text by two leading authorities in the field provides a state-of-the-art assessment of what we know about voting behaviour and the character, consequences and significance of elections in democratic states. It shows how patterns of electoral behaviour have evolved over time and vary in different countries.
Public Choice III
Author | : Dennis C. Mueller |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 2003-02-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139441779 |
This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). Six new chapters have been added, and several chapters from the previous edition have been extensively revised. The discussion of empirical work in public choice has been greatly expanded. As in the previous editions, all of the major topics of public choice are covered. These include: why the state exists, voting rules, federalism, the theory of clubs, two-party and multiparty electoral systems, rent seeking, bureaucracy, interest groups, dictatorship, the size of government, voter participation, and political business cycles. Normative issues in public choice are also examined including a normative analysis of the simple majority rule, Bergson–Samuelson social welfare functions, the Arrow and Sen impossibility theorems, Rawls's social contract theory and the constitutional political economy of Buchanan and Tullock.