Ian Budge, Michael Mcdonald, Paul Pennings, Hans Keman

Organizing Democratic Choice

Party Representation Over Time

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Produktbeschreibung

Organizing Democratic Choice offers a new, invigorating theory of how democracy actually works. It also presents 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 167mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9780199654932
• ISBN-10: 019965493X
• Artikelnr.: 36271140

Inhaltsangabe

* Precis
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction: Representation as Process
* Part I: Party Convergence and Beyond
* 1: Convergence in Context: Simulating Party-Elector Interactions
within a Downsian Framework
* 2: Party Stability, Voting Cycles and Convergence: Comparative
Evidence
* 3: Unpacking the Convergence Model
* Part II : Party Divergence: Causes and Consequences
* 4: The Dynamics of Divergence - Ideology, Factionalism and
Representation
* Part III: Representing Voters
* 5: Identifying Majority Preferences: Median or Plurality Voter?
* 6: Representation over Time: Empowering both Modal and Median
Preferences Through Policy Inertia - A Model and Simulation
* 7: Representation and the Pace of Policy Change - A Comparative
Over-Time Analysis
* Part IV: Representing Citizens
* 8: The Nature of Citizen Preferences: Meaningful and Stable?
* 9: Relating Elector to Voter Preferences
* 10: Citizen Preferences and Public Policy
* Part V: The Representational Process
* 11: Parties Diverge Around Electors - But Not Too Much. Policy
Responds - But Not Too Fast.
* 12: Partisan Governments, Centrist Electors: Resolving the Paradox of
Party Representation
* 13: Representing Representation: A Core Theory for Political Science