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Author : Richard Rose
Publisher : Springer
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349018543
Author : Francis G. Castles,Rudolf Wildenmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783110904000
Author : Frances Rosenbluth,Ian Shapiro
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300241051
How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates; ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly; many places now use proportional representation, encouraging smaller, more specific parties rather than two dominant ones.Yet voters keep getting angrier.There is a steady erosion of trust in politicians, parties, and democratic institutions, culminating most recently in major populist victories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Frances Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro argue that devolving power to the grass roots is part of the problem. Efforts to decentralize political decision-making have made governments and especially political parties less effective and less able to address constituents’ long-term interests. They argue that to restore confidence in governance, we must restructure our political systems to restore power to the core institution of representative democracy: the political party.
Author : John Kenneth White,Jerome M. Mileur
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0809318342
Former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once commented that "in times of great political change and rapid political transition it will generally be observed that political parties find it convenient to rebaptize themselves." Fifty years after the publication of E. E. Schattschneider's Party Government and forty-two years after the publication of Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System, distinguished scholars including Everett Carll Ladd, Wilson Carey McWilliams, John S. Jackson III, Sidney M. Milkis, and scholar-congressmen David E. Price (D-NC) and William M. Thomas (R-CA) reevaluate the long-standing assumptions that surround the "responsible parties" argument. In this collection of essays edited by John Kenneth White and Jerome M. Mileur, contributors voice their perspectives on the challenges confronting the party system of government in the United States. Elections in which the party system fails to frame issues satisfactorily and the rise of an American state without the helping hand of parties to run it have all contributed to a political crisis of confidence in party government. Indeed, White recently termed Ross Perot's candidacy a "wake-up call" for Democrats and Republicans. Still, while their analysis of current party government acknowledges problems, these authors favor a resurgence of the party system, arguing that political parties are the indispensable instruments of communication between our country's voters and their elected officials. For those political scientists, elected officials, and voters who share their wish, immersing these once grand institutions into the "born-again" waters of a Disraeli-type baptism remains the single most important challenge of the decade ahead.
Author : Christopher H. Achen,Larry M. Bartels
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400888740
Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic—and what we can do about it Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens. Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of social-scientific evidence, including ingenious original analyses of topics ranging from abortion politics and budget deficits to the Great Depression and shark attacks, to show that the familiar ideal of thoughtful citizens steering the ship of state from the voting booth is fundamentally misguided. They demonstrate that voters—even those who are well informed and politically engaged—mostly choose parties and candidates on the basis of social identities and partisan loyalties, not political issues. They also show that voters adjust their policy views and even their perceptions of basic matters of fact to match those loyalties. When parties are roughly evenly matched, elections often turn on irrelevant or misleading considerations such as economic spurts or downturns beyond the incumbents' control; the outcomes are essentially random. Thus, voters do not control the course of public policy, even indirectly. Achen and Bartels argue that democratic theory needs to be founded on identity groups and political parties, not on the preferences of individual voters. Now with new analysis of the 2016 elections, Democracy for Realists provides a powerful challenge to conventional thinking, pointing the way toward a fundamentally different understanding of the realities and potential of democratic government.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Europe
ISBN : UOM:39015013115426
Author : Jean Blondel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780333977330
The Nature of Party Government examines relationships between governments and supporting parties on a comparative European basis. The book does so at the level of principles: there is a major conflict between governments, which should govern, and parties, which being representative, wish to shape the way governments operate. The book studies relationships empirically as well: it shows that they occur on three planes, appointments, policy-making and patronage and assesses the extent of two-way influence, from parties to governments and from governments to parties.
Author : Peter Mair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198292357
Mair examines how we interpret the evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems. Focusing on processes of political adaptation and control, he also looks at how parties generate or freeze their own momentum.
Author : Austin Ranney
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Political parties
ISBN : UCAL:B3965328
Revision of thesis--Yale University. Bibliography: p. 165-172.
Author : Peter Mair
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191521942
This unique and important new book looks at how we interpret the evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems. Focusing primarily on processes of political adaptation and control, it also concerns how parties and party systems generate their own momentum and `freeze' themselves into place. Amidst the widespread contemporary discussion of the challenge to modern democracy and the crisis of traditional forms of political representation, it offers a welcome emphasis on how party systems survive, and on how change, when it does occur, may be analysed and understood. The first part of the book deals with questions of persistence and change, and with the vulnerability and endurance of traditional parties. In the second part, attention shifts to the question of party organization, and to the ways in which the established parties are increasingly coming to invade the state, finding there a new source of privilege and a new means of ensuring their own survival. The third part of the book focuses on structures of competition in Western party systems, as well as on the problems associated with the consolidation of the new party systems in post-communist Europe. This is the first book to be entirely devoted to the question of party and party system change, and offers and essential guide to the understanding of this crucial theme.
Author : Shaun Bowler,David M. Farrell,Richard S. Katz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015043782955
Brings together empirical studies of the internal cohesiveness of political party groups in European parliaments and the leadership behavior that leads to disciplined parties in parliament, in sections on theories and definitions, the "Westminster Model," established continental European systems, newly emerging systems, and parliamentary discipline and coalition governments. Chapters originated as papers presented at a spring 1995 workshop held in Bordeaux, France. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : European Consortium for Political Research
Publisher : Sage Publications (CA)
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015004258870
This acclaimed text on comparative and Western European politics is now available in paperback. The book analyses the reasons for the continuity and stability of the established European party systems and describes how changes of policy and opinion have affected the appeal and electoral performance of particular parties. It examines issues such as the shifting pattern of electoral support in Europe since the second world war, the electoral advantages of incumbency, the changing fortunes of mass parties and parties of the left, the impact of regionalism on party systems and the danger of political fragmentation caused by the increasing number of parties.
Author : Christopher J. Kam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521518291
This text examines the interaction and contention between party leaders and MPs to study the underlying structure of party unity.
Author : Giovanni Sartori
Publisher : ECPR Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780954796617
In this broad-ranging volume Sartori outlines a comprehensive and authoritative approach to the classification of party systems. He also offers an extensive review of the concept and rationale of the political party, and develops a sharp critique of various spatial models of party competition.
Author : Ilya Somin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780804789318
One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Often, many people understand that their votes are unlikely to change the outcome of an election and don't see the point in learning much about politics. This may be rational, but it creates a nation of people with little political knowledge and little ability to objectively evaluate what they do know. In Democracy and Political Ignorance, Ilya Somin mines the depths of ignorance in America and reveals the extent to which it is a major problem for democracy. Somin weighs various options for solving this problem, arguing that political ignorance is best mitigated and its effects lessened by decentralizing and limiting government. Somin provocatively argues that people make better decisions when they choose what to purchase in the market or which state or local government to live under, than when they vote at the ballot box, because they have stronger incentives to acquire relevant information and to use it wisely.
