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With drastic action needing to be taken now, rather than over the
30 years to 2050, this book addresses the crucial question of how
to get action from governments who will always put short-term
considerations (e.g. post Covid economic growth) over longer term
climate priorities - unless forced to do otherwise. How might
governments be persuaded to implement policies that will result in
effective action? And how can this be achieved at an international,
as well as national, level? These are the questions that this book
focuses on. Taking a systematic political science point of view and
drawing on collective choice and other theories of political
action, this book analyses the key political and economic dynamics
shaping climate policies around the world, identifying major
political opportunities that can be exploited by well-informed and
determined political actors, such as NGOs and social movements.
This book describes how to advance and accelerate climate action
around the world and will be of interest internationally to climate
change campaigners, activists, political and environmental
scientists.
"The New British Politics" is one of the most comprehensive and
successful introductions to British politics ever published. Now
available in a fully revised and updated fourth edition, this
clear, lively and authoritative text has an emphasis on law and
order and the historical context of British politics. Written by
internationally-known specialists, the book combines incisive and
original analysis with direct presentation.
Comprehensive and accessible coverage of key aspects of the British
political system, written by a team of distinguished scholars.
Originally published in 1983, this third edition has been fully
revised and updated.
The New British Politics is one of the most comprehensive and
successful introductions to British politics ever published. Now
available in a fully revised and updated fourth edition, this
clear, lively and authoritative text has an emphasis on law and
order and the historical context of British politics. Written by
internationally-known specialists, the book combines incisive and
original analysis with direct presentation.
A pioneering textbook which explains the dynamics of politics
across Europe in the post-Cold war era. Comparing democratisation,
transition to a market economy and increasing economic and
political integration in the countries of central and eastern
Europe with experiences in Scandinavia, and southern and western
Europe, the book provides a wealth of information and analysis on
the state of Europe at the end of a momentous century of European
and World history.
This comprehensive introduction to politics provides an essential
template for assessing the health and workings of present day
democracy by exploring how democratic processes bring public policy
into line with popular preferences. Incorporating the latest
findings from Big Data across the world, it provides a crucial
framework showing students how to deploy these for themselves,
providing straightforward, practical orientation to the scope and
methods of modern political science. Key features: Everyday
politics is explained through concrete applications to democracies
across the world; Predictive theories illuminate what goes on at
various levels of democracy; Outlines - in easy to understand terms
- the basic statistical approaches that enable empirically-informed
analysis; Rich textual features include chapter summaries, reviews,
key points, illustrative briefings, key concepts, project and essay
suggestions, relevant reading all clearly explained in 'How to Use
This Book'; Provides a firm basis for institutional and normative
approaches to democratic politics; Concluding section reviews other
approaches to explaining politics, assessing their strengths and
weaknesses. Politics is an essential resource for students of
political science and of key interest to economics, public policy
analysis and more broadly the social sciences.
Coalitions are the commonest kind of democratic government,
occurring frequently in most countries of Western Europe. It is
usually assumed that political parties came together in a
government coalition because they agree already, or can manage to
reach an agreement, on the policy it should pursue. This book
checks this idea out, in 12 countries of Western Europe plus
Israel, using evidence from party election programmes and
government programmes. It demonstrates that party policies do
influence government programmes, but not to the extent they would
if policy-agreement were the sole basis of coalition.
Coalitions are the commonest kind of democratic government,
occurring frequently in most countries of western Europe. It is
usually assumed that political parties came together in a
government coalition because they agree already, or can reach an
agreement, on the policy it should pursue. This book examines this
idea using evidence from party election programmes and government
programmes. It demonstrates that party policies do influence
government programmes, but not to the extent they would if
policy-agreement were the sole basis of coalition.
This comprehensive introduction to politics provides an essential
template for assessing the health and workings of present day
democracy by exploring how democratic processes bring public policy
into line with popular preferences. Incorporating the latest
findings from Big Data across the world, it provides a crucial
framework showing students how to deploy these for themselves,
providing straightforward, practical orientation to the scope and
methods of modern political science. Key features: Everyday
politics is explained through concrete applications to democracies
across the world; Predictive theories illuminate what goes on at
various levels of democracy; Outlines - in easy to understand terms
- the basic statistical approaches that enable empirically-informed
analysis; Rich textual features include chapter summaries, reviews,
key points, illustrative briefings, key concepts, project and essay
suggestions, relevant reading all clearly explained in 'How to Use
This Book'; Provides a firm basis for institutional and normative
approaches to democratic politics; Concluding section reviews other
approaches to explaining politics, assessing their strengths and
weaknesses. Politics is an essential resource for students of
political science and of key interest to economics, public policy
analysis and more broadly the social sciences.
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1976, this classic volume of original essays
constitutes a unique and comprehensive review of the approaches and
assumptions that dominate the field of election studies and voting
behavior. Critical reviews of theory and established research are
combined with accounts of innovative and original studies of a
variety of European countries, as well as in North America.
Therefore this volume presents valuable comparative data and
methodological insights, including statistical analyses of voting
data and critical accounts of major approaches to the
representation of voting and party competition. These include party
identification (the socio-psychological approach); dimensional
analysis (the production of party spaces based on social and
political cleavages); and rational choice analysis (the interaction
between voters and parties within a policy space). This edition
includes a new introduction by Ian Budge and Ivor Crewe.
The relevance of this book to central concerns of political and
social science hardly needs emphasizing. Parties are the organizing
force of democratic governments, giving coherence and direction to
their policies and relating them to popular preferences. Election
programmes are crucial to this role, providing electors with some
insight into the policies they are voting for, and parties
themselves with a starting point for their activity in government.
Discussion begins with a comparative assessment of the impact of
election pledges on government action. The book goes on to describe
systematically the place of the programmes in the political process
of nineteen democracies. It subjects them to detailed qualitative,
quantitative and spatial analyses to answer such questions as: Who
prepares election programmes and how? What is the nature of modern
party divisions? Do they differ across countries? Is there indeed
an 'end of ideology' or an intensification? Does the need to
attract votes weaken old partisan attachments? Combining individual
studies of each country with comparative analyses on a scale never
previously undertaken, the book will interest country specialists
and comparativists and prove indispensable to research on voting
and party behaviour, coalition formation, ideology, and rational
choice.
This book is probably the most important source of evidence
published up to now on the consolidation of democracy in Eastern
Europe. It provides estimates of party positions, voter preferences
and government policy from election programmes collected
systematically for 51 countries from 1990 onwards. Time-series are
presented in the text. This also reports party life histories
(essential to over time analyses) and provides updated and newly
validated vote statistics. All this information and much more is
available on the devoted website described in the book. The final
chapter gives instructions on how to access the data on your own
computer. For comparative purposes, similar estimates of policy and
preferences are given for CEE, OECD and EU countries. These
estimates update the prize-winning data set covered in Mapping
Policy Preferences: Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments
1945-1998 - also published by OUP. A must-buy for all commentators,
students and analysts of democracy, in Eastern Europe and the
world.
This bold venture into political theory and comparative politics
combines traditional concerns about democracy with modern
analytical methods. It asks how contemporary democracies work, an
essential stage in asking how they can be justified. An answer to
both questions is found in the idea of the median mandate. The
voter in the middle - the voice of the majority - empowers the
centre party in parliament to translate his or her preferences into
public policy. The median mandate provides a unified theory of
democracy - pluralist, consensus, majoritarian, liberal, and
populist - by replacing each qualified 'vision' with an integrated
account of how representative institutions work. The unified theory
is put to the test with comprehensive cross-national evidence
covering 21 democracies from 1950 through to 1995. This exciting
book will be of interest to specialists and general readers alike,
representing as it does a reaffirmation of traditional democratic
practice in an uncertain and threatening world. Comparative
Politics is 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 Comparative Politics, University of Southampton. The
series is published in association with the European Consortium for
Political Research.
This unique book contains the only set of statistical estimates of party, government, and electoral preferences in 25 countries over the entire post-war period. These are based on content analyses of electoral and government programs for each election and government of the period, a task which no one else has even attempted. It provides these estimates directly for computer use on the CD ROM provided with it. The printed text provides documentation and suggests uses for data, along with much other background information.
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.
Parties and Democracy studies the actual behaviour of some four hundred governments in twenty post-war democracies, including those of Western Europe, Australia, Israel, Japan, and New Zealand. The conclusion that parties do function in accordance with modern democratic theory will serve to put moral justifications of democracy and descriptions of the system on a firmer footing.
The relevance of this book to central concerns of political and
social science hardly needs emphasizing. Parties are the organizing
force of democratic governments, giving coherence and direction to
their policies and relating them to popular preferences. Election
programmes are crucial to this role, providing electors with some
insight into the policies they are voting for, and parties
themselves with a starting point for their activity in government.
Discussion begins with a comparative assessment of the impact of
election pledges on government action. The book goes on to describe
systematically the place of the programmes in the political process
of nineteen democracies. It subjects them to detailed qualitative,
quantitative and spatial analyses to answer such questions as: Who
prepares election programmes and how? What is the nature of modern
party divisions? Do they differ across countries? Is there indeed
an 'end of ideology' or an intensification? Does the need to
attract votes weaken old partisan attachments? Combining individual
studies of each country with comparative analyses on a scale never
previously undertaken, the book will interest country specialists
and comparativists and prove indispensable to research on voting
and party behaviour, coalition formation, ideology, and rational
choice.
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