Multiparty democracy : elections and legislative politics
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Multiparty democracy : elections and legislative politics
(Political economy of institutions and decisions)
Cambridge University Press, 2006
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 17 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Library (GRIPS Library)
: hbk314.89||Sc601135951
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-218) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book adapts a formal model of elections and legislative politics to study party politics in Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States. The approach uses the idea of valence, that is, the party leader's non-policy electoral popularity, and employs survey data to model these elections. The analysis explains why small parties in Israel and Italy keep to the electoral periphery. In the Netherlands, Britain, and the US, the electoral model is extended to include the behavior of activists. In the case of Britain, it is shown that there will be contests between activists for the two main parties over who controls policy. For the recent 2005 election, it is argued that the losses of the Labour party were due to Blair's falling valence. For the US, the model gives an account of the rotation of the locations of the two major parties over the last century.
Table of Contents
- 1. Multiparty democracy
- 2. Elections and democracy
- 3. A theory of political competition
- 4. Elections in Israel 1988-1996
- 5. Elections in Italy: 1992-1996
- 6. Elections in the Netherlands: 1979-1981
- 7. Elections in Britain: 1979-2005
- 8. Political realignments in the U.S.
- 9. Concluding remarks
- 10. References
- 11. Tables and figures.
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