Issue Voting And Party Competition

Author : Ian Budge,Ivor Crewe,Dennis Farlie
Publisher : ECPR Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780955820342

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Party Identification and Beyond by Ian Budge,Ivor Crewe,Dennis Farlie Pdf

First published in 1976, this classic volume of original essays provides a unique and comprehensive review of the approaches and assumptions that dominate the field of election studies and voting behaviour. Critical reviews of theory and established research are combined with innovative and original studies of a variety of European countries, as well as North America. The 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.

Author : James F. Adams,Samuel Merrill III,Bernard Grofman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113944400X

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A Unified Theory of Party Competition by James F. Adams,Samuel Merrill III,Bernard Grofman Pdf

This book integrates spatial and behavioral perspectives - in a word, those of the Rochester and Michigan schools - into a unified theory of voter choice and party strategy. The theory encompasses both policy and non-policy factors, effects of turnout, voter discounting of party promises, expectations of coalition governments, and party motivations based on policy as well as office. Optimal (Nash equilibrium) strategies are determined for alternative models for presidential elections in the US and France, and for parliamentary elections in Britain and Norway. These polities cover a wide range of electoral rules, number of major parties, and governmental structures. The analyses suggest that the more competitive parties generally take policy positions that come close to maximizing their electoral support, and that these vote-maximizing positions correlate strongly with the mean policy positions of their supporters.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:729015539

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Party Competition and Responsible Party Government by Anonim Pdf

In countries with multiparty political systems, we assume--if the system is going to work--that parties have relatively stable positions on policy, that these positions diverge, and that voters make choices based on policy preferences. Yet much of the research on voter behavior and party competition does not support these assumptions. In Party Competition, James Adams applies the insights of behavioral research to an examination of the policy strategies that political parties (and candidates) employ in seeking election. He argues that vote-seeking parties are motivated to present policies that appeal to voters, whose bias toward these policies is based in part on reasons that have nothing to do with policy. He demonstrates that this strategic logic has profound implications for party competition and responsible party government. Adams's innovative fusion of research methodologies presents solutions to issues of policy stability and voter partisanship. His theory's supported by an in-depth analysis of empirical applications to party competition in Britain, France, and the United States in the postwar years. Party Competition and Responsible Party Government will appeal to readers interested in the study of political parties, voting behavior and elections, as well as to scholars specializing in French, British, and American politics. James Adams is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Author : James Adams
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472087679

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Party Competition and Responsible Party Government by James Adams Pdf

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Author : Ian Budge,Dennis Farlie
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015080725545

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Voting and Party Competition by Ian Budge,Dennis Farlie Pdf

Author : Bernard Grofman,André Blais,Shaun Bowler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780387097206

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Duverger's Law of Plurality Voting by Bernard Grofman,André Blais,Shaun Bowler Pdf

Maurice Duverger is arguably the most distinguished French political scientist of the last century, but his major impact has, strangely enough, been largely in the English-speaking world. His book, Political Parties, first translated into English in 1954, has been very influential in both the party politics literature (which continues to make use of his typology of party organization) and in the electoral systems literature. His chief contributions there deal with what have come to be called in his honor Duverger’s Law and Duverger’s Hypothesis. The first argues that countries with plurality-based electoral methods will tend to become two-party systems; the second argues that countries using proportional representation (PR) methods will tend to become multi-party systems. Duverger also identifies specific mechanisms that will produce these effects, conventionally referred to as “mechanical effects”, and “psychological effects”. However, while Duverger’s Hypothesis concerning the link between PR and multipartism is now widely accepted; the empirical evidence that plurality voting results in two-party systems is remarkably weak—with the U.S. the most notable exception. The chapters in this volume consider national-level evidence for the operation of Duverger’s law in the world’s largest, longest-lived and most successful democracies of Britain, Canada, India and the United States. One set of papers involves looking at the overall evidence for Duverger’s Law in these countries; the other set deals with evidence for the mechanical and incentive effects predicted by Duverger. The result is an incisive analysis of electoral and party dynamics.

Author : Judith Bara,Albert Weale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134173433

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Democratic Politics and Party Competition by Judith Bara,Albert Weale Pdf

This new book introduces innovative research on democracy from the leading Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP). It details the key achievements of the project to date, illustrates how its findings may be applied, lays out the future challenges it faces and examines how the field as a whole can advance. It also presents a special assessment of the dimensionality of party competition, presenting ways in which research can be extended and related to broader approaches in Political Science and Theory. Although CMP research is widely used and constitutes the major comparative data set on party positions and ideological location, it is also subject to challenge. The volume therefore provides the reader with a clear sense of the key debates and questions surrounding its work. This volume also honours the life-time achievement of Professor Ian Budge, who has provided distinguished intellectual leadership for the CMP over the last twenty-five years. This is an essential point of reference for all comparative research on the functioning of democracies. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of politics and of democracy in particular.

Author : Michael Laver,Ernest Sergenti
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691139043

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Party Competition by Michael Laver,Ernest Sergenti Pdf

Party competition for votes in free and fair elections involves complex interactions by multiple actors in political landscapes that are continuously evolving, yet classical theoretical approaches to the subject leave many important questions unanswered. Here Michael Laver and Ernest Sergenti offer the first comprehensive treatment of party competition using the computational techniques of agent-based modeling. This exciting new technology enables researchers to model competition between several different political parties for the support of voters with widely varying preferences on many different issues. Laver and Sergenti model party competition as a true dynamic process in which political parties rise and fall, a process where different politicians attack the same political problem in very different ways, and where today's political actors, lacking perfect information about the potential consequences of their choices, must constantly adapt their behavior to yesterday's political outcomes. Party Competition shows how agent-based modeling can be used to accurately reflect how political systems really work. It demonstrates that politicians who are satisfied with relatively modest vote shares often do better at winning votes than rivals who search ceaselessly for higher shares of the vote. It reveals that politicians who pay close attention to their personal preferences when setting party policy often have more success than opponents who focus solely on the preferences of voters, that some politicians have idiosyncratic "valence" advantages that enhance their electability--and much more.

Author : Gianluca Passarelli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030252861

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Preferential Voting Systems by Gianluca Passarelli Pdf

This book examines the effects of preferential voting on intraparty electoral competition and voting behavior. Using data covering 19 countries and over 200 elections, this study sheds light on a somewhat neglected aspect of electoral systems. The author demonstrates that the ability of voters to influence the selection and deselection of MPs under preferential voting systems is not as important as is often assumed. Instead, their ability to shape the election of a given candidate depends heavily on the balance between party power and voter power. In this way, this book advances the understanding of the effect of preferential voting on intra-party dynamics, parliamentary turnover, and voter behavior. Based on a rigorous, data-led methodological approach, the book contributes to both the theory and practice of the study of electoral systems, and should be read by scholars, students and practitioners interested in preferential voting systems.

Author : Anna-Sophie Kurella
Publisher : Springer
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319533780

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Issue Voting and Party Competition by Anna-Sophie Kurella Pdf

This book examines how social cleavage lines shape issue voting and party competition. Based on a study of German elections between 1980 and 1994, it analyzes whether cleavage group members put more weight on policies that address their personal self-interest than voters who are not affected by the cleavage line. Furthermore, it analyzes the consequences of cleavage groups’ deviating patterns of voting behavior for the formal game of party competition. More concretely, the author asks whether equilibrium positions of parties within the policy space are pulled away from the mean due to the more extreme policy demands of cleavage groups in the electorate.

Author : Richard S. Katz
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421403212

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A Theory of Parties and Electoral Systems by Richard S. Katz Pdf

Winner, George H. Hallett Award, 1998, Representation and Electoral Systems Organized Section of the American Political Science Association Political parties and elections are the mainsprings of modern democracy. In this classic volume, Richard S. Katz explores the problem of how a given electoral system affects the role of political parties and the way in which party members are elected. He develops and tests a theory of the differences in the cohesion, ideological behavior, and issue orientation of Western parliamentary parties on the basis of the electoral systems under which they compete. A standard in the field of political theory and thought, The Theory of Parties and the Electoral System contributes to a better understanding of parliamentary party structures and demonstrates the wide utility of the rationalistic approach for explaining behavior derived from the self-interest of political actors.

Author : John H. Aldrich,John D. Griffin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226495408

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Why Parties Matter by John H. Aldrich,John D. Griffin Pdf

Since the founding of the American Republic, the North and South have followed remarkably different paths of political development. Among the factors that have led to their divergence throughout much of history are differences in the levels of competition among the political parties. While the North has generally enjoyed a well-defined two-party system, the South has tended to have only weakly developed political parties—and at times no system of parties to speak of. With Why Parties Matter, John H. Aldrich and John D. Griffin make a compelling case that competition between political parties is an essential component of a democracy that is responsive to its citizens and thus able to address their concerns. Tracing the history of the parties through four eras—the Democratic-Whig party era that preceded the Civil War; the post-Reconstruction period; the Jim Crow era, when competition between the parties virtually disappeared; and the modern era—Aldrich and Griffin show how and when competition emerged between the parties and the conditions under which it succeeded and failed. In the modern era, as party competition in the South has come to be widely regarded as matching that of the North, the authors conclude by exploring the question of whether the South is poised to become a one-party system once again with the Republican party now dominant.

Author : Martin J. Zechman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037563801

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Dynamic Models of Voting Behavior and Spatial Models of Party Competition by Martin J. Zechman Pdf

Author : Jane Green,Will Jennings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107158016

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The Politics of Competence by Jane Green,Will Jennings Pdf

This analysis reveals how issue ownership, performance and competence shape public opinion about parties, government support and elections, over time and cross-nationally.

Author : Erik J. Engstrom,Samuel Kernell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316165133

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Party Ballots, Reform, and the Transformation of America's Electoral System by Erik J. Engstrom,Samuel Kernell Pdf

This book explores the fascinating and puzzling world of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American elections. It examines the strategic behavior of nineteenth-century party politicians and shows how their search for electoral victory led them to invent a number of remarkable campaign practices. Why were parties dedicated to massive voter mobilization? Why did presidential nominees wage front-porch campaigns? Why did officeholders across the country tie their electoral fortunes to the popularity of presidential candidates at the top of the ticket? Erik J. Engstrom and Samuel Kernell demonstrate that the defining features of nineteenth-century electoral politics were the product of institutions in the states that prescribed how votes were cast and how those votes were converted into political offices. Relying on a century's worth of original data, this book uncovers the forces propelling the nineteenth-century electoral system, its transformation at the end of the nineteenth century, and the implications of that transformation for modern American politics.