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Organizing Democratic Choice - Party Representation Over Time (Hardcover)
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Organizing Democratic Choice - Party Representation Over Time (Hardcover)
Series: Comparative Politics
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This bold venture into democratic theory offers a new and
reinvigorating thesis for how democracy delivers on its promise of
public control over public policy. In theory, popular control could
be achieved through a process entirely driven by supply-side
politics, with omniscient and strategic political parties
converging on the median voter's policy preference at every turn.
However, this would imply that there would be no distinguishable
political parties (or even any reason for parties to exist) and no
choice for a public to make. The more realistic view taken here
portrays democracy as an ongoing series of give and take between
political parties' policy supply and a mass public's policy demand.
Political parties organize democratic choices as divergent policy
alternatives, none of which is likely to satisfy the public's
policy preferences at any one turn. While the one-off, short-run
consequence of a single election often results in differences
between the policies that parliaments and governments pursue and
the preferences their publics hold, the authors construct
theoretical arguments, employ computer simulations, and follow up
with empirical analysis to show how, why, and under what conditions
democratic representation reveals itself over time. Democracy,
viewed as a process rather than a single electoral event, can and
usually does forge strong and congruent linkages between a public
and its government. This original thesis offers a challenge to
democratic pessimists who would have everyone believe that neither
political parties nor mass publics are up to the tasks that
democracy assigns them. Comparative Politics is a series for
students, teachers, and researchers of political science that deals
with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books
in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis
and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in
association with the European Consortium for Political Research.
For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu The Comparative Politics
series is edited by Professor David M. Farrell, School of Politics
and International Relations, University College Dublin, Kenneth
Carty, Professor of Political Science, University of British
Columbia, and Professor Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Institute of Political
Science, Philipps University, Marburg.
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