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The Performance of Democracies - Political Institutions and Public Policy (Hardcover, New)
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The Performance of Democracies - Political Institutions and Public Policy (Hardcover, New)
Series: Comparative Politics
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Is the performance of western democracies in decline? Which
countries show the best performance? Do institutions matter for
political performance? This book offers a comprehensive analysis of
twenty-one OECD countries by systematically examining all major
domestic policy areas - domestic security policy, economic policy,
social policy, and environmental policy - and using outcome
indicators. The quality of democracy is assessed both at the level
of the four policy areas and at a general level encompassing all
policy areas. The question of trade-offs between policy areas is
studied in an unprecedented way and, for the first time, national
types of policy patterns are identified. The findings of this book
confront widely-held assumptions about the performance of
democracies. Western democracies as a whole did not converge at a
lower level of performance, and trade-offs between different policy
areas did not increase. The question 'do institutions matter?' can
only partially be answered in the affirmative. Political
institutions do matter, but formal and informal institutions cause
different effects and both matter only sometimes and to a limited
degree. The Performance of Democracies is a book with significant
theoretical implications. It stresses that the effect of
institutions is more complicated than most of the
neo-institutionalist approaches assume. No clear predictions can be
made on the basis of institutional factors. Consequently, it does
not support the established assertion that fundamental political
problems can simply be resolved through institutional reforms of
liberal democracies. Comparative Politics os a series for students
and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary
government and politics. The General Editors are Max Kaase,
Professor of Political Science, Vice President and Dean, School of
Humanities and Social Science, International University Bremen,
Germany; and Kenneth Newton, Professor of Comparitive Politics,
University of Southampton. The series is produced in association
with the European Consortium for Political Research.
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