John M Carey

Legislative Voting and Accountability

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Carey examines individualistic and collective representation in democracies and how it is shaped by legislative party unity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 475g
• ISBN-13: 9780521884938
• ISBN-10: 0521884934
• Artikelnr.: 25427227

Autorenporträt

John M. Carey is John Wentworth Professor in the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College. He has also taught at the Universidad Católica de Chile, the University of Rochester, Washington University in St Louis, Harvard University, and at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid, Spain. His interests are comparative politics, elections, and Latin American politics. His research focuses on institutional design and democratic representation. Carey's books include Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics (with Matthew Shugart, Cambridge University Press), Executive Decree Authority (also with Shugart, Cambridge University Press), Term Limits in the State Legislatures (with Richard Niemi and Lynda Powell, University of Michigan Press), and Term Limits and Legislative Representation (Cambridge University Press). He has published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Electoral Studies, Party Politics, Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics and Society, Public Choice, Estudios Publicos, Political y Gobierno, the Revista de Ciencias Politicas, and the Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais, as well as chapters in twenty edited volumes. Data and results from his research are available on his website (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jcarey/).

Inhaltsangabe

1. To whom are legislators accountable?
2. Collective accountability and its discontents
3. The supply of visible votes
4. Demand for visible votes
5. Counting votes
6. Explaining voting unity
7. The individual-collective balance.