John P. McIver, Robert S. Erikson, Gerald C. Jr. Wright

Statehouse Democracy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The authors demonstrate that state policies are highly responsive to public opinion through the analysis of state policies from the 1930s to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9780521424059
• ISBN-10: 0521424054
• Artikelnr.: 21892125

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Democratic states
2. Measuring state partisanship and ideology
3. Accounting for state differences in opinion
4. Public opinion and policy in the American states
5. State parties and state policy
6. Legislative elections and state policy
7. Political culture and policy representation
8. Partisanship, ideology and state elections
9. State opinion over time
10. Conclusions: democracy in the American states
References
Index.