Jacques Thomassen

Elections and Democracy

Representation and Accountability

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Produktbeschreibung

Elections and Democracy is based on data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, spanning 36 countries. It considers the majoritarian and consensus models of democracy and how and their embodiment in institutional structures influence vote choice, political participation and satisfaction within a functioning democracy

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9780198716334
• ISBN-10: 0198716338
• Artikelnr.: 40876189

Autorenporträt

Jacques Thomassen is a member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. His main research interests are in democratic theory, political representation, electoral behaviour and legitimacy. He is author and editor of numerous publications including The European Voter (Oxford University Press 2005), The Legitimacy of the European Union after Enlargement (Oxford University Press 2009), and (with Peter Mair) Political Representation and European Union Governance. He was a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Michigan, Harvard, Mannheim, the Australian National University and the European University Institute in Florence. He is a co-founder of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). He is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Twente

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Jacques Thomassen: Representation and Accountability
* 2: Julian Bernauer, Nathalie Giger and Adrian Vatter: New Patterns of
Democracy in the Countries of the Comparative Study of Electoral
Systems II
* 3: Bernhard Wessels and Hermann Schmitt: Meaningful Choices: Does
Parties' Supply Matter?
* 4: Diana Burlacu and Gabor Toka: Policy-based Voting and the Type of
Democracy
* 5: Pedro Magalhães: 5. Political Institutions and the Social
Anchoring of the Vote
* 6: André Blais, Shane Singh and Delia Dumitrescu: Political
Institutions, Perceptions of Representation, and the Turnout Decision
* 7: Steven Weldon and Russell Dalton: Democratic Structures and
Democratic Participation: The Limits of ConsensualismTheory
* 8: Sören Holmberg: Feeling Policy Represented
* 9: David Sanders, Harold Clarke, Marianne Stewart and Paul Whiteley:
Output Oriented Legitimacy: Individual and System-level Influences on
Democracy Satisfaction
* 10: Mark Peffley and Robert Rohrschneider: The Multiple Bases of
Democratic Support: Procedural Representation and Governmental
Outputs
* 11: Kees Aarts, Jacques Thomassen and Carolien van Ham:
Globalization, Representation, and Attitudes Towards Democracy
* 12: Eric Chang, Yun-han Chu and Wen-chin Wu: Consenting to Lose or
Expecting to Win? Inter-temporal Changes in Voters' Winner-loser
Status and Satisfaction with Democracy
* References
* Index