Warren Miller, Roy Pierce, Jacques Thomassen

Policy Representation in Western Democracies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comparative analysis of policy representation in five Western Democracies: France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the US. A leading group of authors examines the impact of belief systems and geographical and institutional characteristics on the match between the policy preferences of the electorate and those of their representatives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780198295709
• ISBN-10: 0198295707
• Artikelnr.: 24079477

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Warren Miller: Introduction: Elite-Mass Linkage in Representative
Democracy
* 2: Roy Pierce: Mass-Elite Issue Linkages and the Responsible Party
Model of Representation
* 3: Jacques Thomassen: Political Communication between Political
Elites and Mass Publics: The Role of Belief Systems
* 4: Richard Herrera: The Language of Politics: A Study of Elite and
Mass Understandings of Ideological Terminology in the United States
and the Netherlands
* 5: Sören Holmberg: Collective Policy Congruence Compared
* 6: Peter Esaisson: Not all Politics is Local: The Geographical
Dimension of Policy Representation
* 7: Bernhard Wessels: System Characteristics Matter: Empirical
Evidence from Ten Representation Studies
* Conclusion: Mixed Signals