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Author: Wolfgang C. Müller Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521637237 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 340
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This book examines the behaviour of political parties in situations where they experience conflict between two or more important objectives.
Author: Wolfgang C. Müller Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521637237 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 340
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This book examines the behaviour of political parties in situations where they experience conflict between two or more important objectives.
Author: Christopher H. Achen Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400888743 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 408
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Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic—and what we can do about it Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens. Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of social-scientific evidence, including ingenious original analyses of topics ranging from abortion politics and budget deficits to the Great Depression and shark attacks, to show that the familiar ideal of thoughtful citizens steering the ship of state from the voting booth is fundamentally misguided. They demonstrate that voters—even those who are well informed and politically engaged—mostly choose parties and candidates on the basis of social identities and partisan loyalties, not political issues. They also show that voters adjust their policy views and even their perceptions of basic matters of fact to match those loyalties. When parties are roughly evenly matched, elections often turn on irrelevant or misleading considerations such as economic spurts or downturns beyond the incumbents' control; the outcomes are essentially random. Thus, voters do not control the course of public policy, even indirectly. Achen and Bartels argue that democratic theory needs to be founded on identity groups and political parties, not on the preferences of individual voters. Now with new analysis of the 2016 elections, Democracy for Realists provides a powerful challenge to conventional thinking, pointing the way toward a fundamentally different understanding of the realities and potential of democratic government.
Author: P. Sciarini Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137508604 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 494
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This in-depth study of the decision-making processes of the early 2000s shows that the Swiss consensus democracy has changed considerably. Power relations have transformed, conflict has increased, coalitions have become more unstable and outputs less predictable. Yet these challenges to consensus politics provide opportunities for innovation.
Author: World Bank Publisher: World Bank Publications ISBN: 1464807744 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 278
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Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.
Author: Jeremy Rifkin Publisher: Main Street Books ISBN: 9780385419178 Category : Elections Languages : en Pages : 0
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A voting guide to making the most informed and meaningful environmental decision; includes a comprehensive congressional report card on Green issues.
Author: Harold D. Clarke Publisher: University of Toronto PressHigher education ISBN: 9781551118802 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 302
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Recent national elections in Canada and the United States have been exciting, consequential contests. In 2006, the Conservative Party of Canada won a fragile victory, replacing a scandal-ridden Liberal government. In the prior 2004 federal election, the Liberals had narrowly clung to power after a volatile and bitter battle with the new Conservative Party. In the 2000 American presidential election, Republican candidate George W. Bush became the first candidate in over 100 years to capture the presidency without a majority popular vote. In 2004, Bush finally attained a narrow popular mandate, but only after a hard fought campaign. Then, in 2006, the Republicans suffered a stunning reversal of political fortune, losing control of both Houses of Congress, as public opinion turned massively against the President. In Making Political Choices: Canada and the United States, Harold Clarke, Allan Kornberg, and Thomas Scotto employ a wealth of new survey data to describe these elections and evaluate competing theories of party support and voter turnout. While examining various arguments about forces affecting political participation and party support, the authors contend that a valence politics model provides a powerful explanation of voting behaviour in Canada, the United States, and other mature democracies. Harold D. Clarke is the Ashbel Smith Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at Dallas, and Adjunct Professor of Government at the University of Essex. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including A Polity on the Edge: Canada and the Politics of Fragmentation with Allan Kornberg and Peter Wearing (Broadview, 2000) and Political Choice in Britain withDavid Sanders, Marianne C. Stewart, and Paul Whiteley (Oxford University Press, 2004). Allan Kornberg is the Norb F. Schaefer Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He is the author of Citizens and Community: Political Support in a Representative Democracy with Harold Clarke (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and has written widely in books and journals on political parties, legislatures, and comparative political behaviour. Thomas J. Scotto is Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. His research interests are in American and Canadian electoral behaviour and public opinion and he has published articles in journals such as Electoral Studies and the Journal of Politics.
Author: David M. Trubek Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139458663 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 301
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This book is a collection of essays that identify and analyze a new phase in thinking about the role of law in economic development and in the practices of development agencies that support law reform. The authors trace the history of theory and doctrine in this field, relating it to changing ideas about development and its institutional practices. The essays describe a new phase in thinking about the relation between law and economic development and analyze how this rising consensus differs from previous efforts to use law as an instrument to achieve social and economic progress. In analyzing the current phase, these essays also identify tensions and contradictions in current practice. This work is a comprehensive treatment of this emerging paradigm, situating it within the intellectual and historical framework of the most influential development models since World War II.
Author: Harold D. Clarke Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 9780802096746 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 310
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"A timely and important contribution to voting literature. Both Canadians and Americans will develop a better understanding of their neighbours' elections, but will also gain many new insights into the politics of their own country." - Larry LeDuc, University of Toronto
Author: Nikolaos Zahariadis Publisher: Georgetown University Press ISBN: 9781589012363 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 212
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Zahariadis offers a theory that explains policymaking when "ambiguity" is present—a state in which there are many ways, often irreconcilable, of thinking about an issue. Expanding and extending John Kingdon's influential "multiple streams" model that explains agenda setting, Zahariadis argues that manipulation, the bending of ideas, process, and beliefs to get what you want out of the policy process, is the key to understanding the dynamics of policymaking in conditions of ambiguity. He takes one of the major theories of public policy to the next step in three different ways: he extends it to a different form of government (parliamentary democracies, where Kingdon looked only at what he called the United States's presidential "organized anarchy" form of government); he examines the entire policy formation process, not just agenda setting; and he applies it to foreign as well as domestic policy. This book combines theory with cases to illuminate policymaking in a variety of modern democracies. The cases cover economic policymaking in Britain, France, and Germany, foreign policymaking in Greece, all compared to the U.S. (where the model was first developed), and an innovative computer simulation of the policy process.
Author: Wolfgang C. Müller
Author: Wolfgang C. Müller
Author: Christopher H. Achen
Author: William C. Meulemans
Author: P. Sciarini
Author: World Bank
Author: Jeremy Rifkin
Author: Harold D. Clarke
Author: David M. Trubek
Author: Harold D. Clarke
Author: Nikolaos Zahariadis