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Author : Luis Fernando Medina S.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Essays on the Formal Theory of Parties and Elections written by Luis Fernando Medina S. and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Anthony Hummel
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (651 download)
Download or read book "Essays in Formal Political Theory" written by Patrick Anthony Hummel and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation presents three chapters based on my papers entitled "Deliberative Democracy and Electoral Competition", "Policy Selection in Primaries and General Elections with Candidates of Heterogeneous Quality", and "Sequential Voting in Large Elections with Multiple Candidates."
Author : Richard S. Katz
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421403218
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book A Theory of Parties and Electoral Systems written by Richard S. Katz and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Matteo Bonotti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317643216
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Parties, Partisanship and Political Theory written by Matteo Bonotti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political parties have only recently become a subject of investigation in normative political theory. Parties have traditionally been studied by political scientists in their organizational features and in relation to the analysis of related topics such as party systems and electoral systems. Little attention, however, was paid until recently to the normative assumptions that underlie partisanship and party politics. Are parties desirable for democratic politics? How should liberal democracies deal with extremist and/or anti-democratic parties? Do religious parties undermine the secular distinction between religion and politics and is that bad for liberal democracies? These are only some of the many questions that political theorists had left unanswered for a long time. The papers in this collection aim to provide a twofold contribution to the normative analysis of partisanship. On the one hand, they aim to offer a first much needed ‘state of the art’ of the existing research in this area. Many of the contributors have already done extensive research on partisanship and their pieces partly reflect their research expertise and individual approaches to this topic. On the other hand, all pieces move beyond the authors’ existing work and represent significant additions to the normative literature on partisanship, thus setting the standards for future research in this area. This book was published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
Author : Joseph A. Schlesinger
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472082568
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (825 download)
Download or read book Political Parties and the Winning of Office written by Joseph A. Schlesinger and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an integrated theoretical perspective for explaining political party operations. Schlesinger examines the distinctive structure of the party organization, the nature of its collective outputs, and the direct and indirect rewards it offers participants. He also develops the impact of political ambitions and the structure of political opportunities and electoral arrangements on party capabilities. Schlesinger concludes by looking at the "changing multinuclear party" and the implications of his theory for comparative research. The comparative potential of the theory is demonstrated through the construction of a typology of parties based on officeholders' age and career paths for five Western democracies. ISBN 0-472-10202-8: $37.50.
Author : Luis Fernando Medina Sierra
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472069950
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book A Unified Theory of Collective Action and Social Change written by Luis Fernando Medina Sierra and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing examination of one of the most important unresolved problems in social choice theory: how do we best understand people's decision to pay the cost of a public good?
Author : Thomas Poguntke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198758634
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Organizing Political Parties written by Thomas Poguntke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political party organizations play large roles in democracies, yet their organizations differ widely, and their statutes change much more frequently than constitutions or electoral laws. How do these differences, and these frequent changes, affect the operation of democracy? This book seeks to answer these questions by presenting a comprehensive overview of the state of party organization in nineteen contemporary democracies. Using a unique new data collection, the book's chapters test propositions about the reasons for variation and similarities across party organizations. They find more evidence of within-country similarity than of cross-national patterns based on party ideology. After exploring parties' organizational differences, the remaining chapters investigate the impact of these differences. The volume considers a wide range of theories about how party organization may affect political life, including the impact of party rules on the selection of female candidates, the links between party decision processes and the stability of party programmes, the connection between party finance sources and public trust in political parties, and whether the strength of parties' extra-parliamentary organization affects the behaviour of their elected legislators. Collectively these chapters help to advance comparative studies of elections and representation by inserting party institutions and party agency more firmly into the centre of such studies. Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students 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 series is edited by Emilie van Haute, Professor of Political Science, Universite libre de Bruxelles; Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University; and Susan Scarrow, Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of Houston.
Author : Marcos Menchaca
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Three Essays in American Politics written by Marcos Menchaca and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dissertation, I write three papers on American politics. The first essay, ``Do Americans Respond to Presidential Pork?,'' examines the impact of presidential pork, party identification, and citizen ideology on presidential vote choice and voter turnout. It could be possible that increased government spending in a person's local area will increase his income and thus induce him to evaluate the incumbent presidential candidate through retrospective economic pocketbook voting. I also give a counter reasons of why voters would not respond to presidential pork: Americans do not pay much attention to how much the government is spending in their local area especially when people weigh heavily their ideology and party ID when making vote and turnout decisions. I then find, contrary to previous studies, strong evidence that voters do not respond to pork by changing their who they will vote for but find some evidence that people do respond by turning out to vote. My statistical analysis reveals that pork barrel spending did not switch people's vote choice in favor of the incumbent candidate in the 1988, 2008, and 2012 presidential elections. In fact, I find that the absolute level of spending in per capita terms for a county actually hurt McCain 2008. I do find that pork slightly increases the probability that a person turns out to vote for McCain 2008. But even though the results are statistically significant, they are not substantively significant enough to believe that presidential pork has a huge mobilizing effect for the candidate of the incumbent party. Furthermore, when I analyze the 1988 election between Bush and Dukakis with ANES data, I find that pork has no statistically significant effect on turnout. This leads me to conclude that presidential pork has no significant influence over vote choice or voter turnout. In the second paper, ``A Factional Theory of Parties,'' I investigate the conditions under which groups in society coalesce to form large-tent parties previous to any election. I construct a formal model where groups seek to win office to implement their ideal points. These groups can either run on their own in the election or form coalitional parties. Each group has activists who are able to influence independent voters by contributing campaign resources. Coalitional parties can form in two cases. First, if there are no intense policy demanders (groups who care mostly about one policy dimension), then groups will coalesce and combine activist resources only if their influence in campaigning is significant. Second, if there are many policy dimensions and intense policy demanders then the influence of activists can be very weak and coalitional parties will still form. The reason why they form is very similar to vote-trading (logrolling). And coalitions need not be minimal winning in my model. In the third paper, ``Who Are the Moderates?,'' I investigate which Americans are extreme in their political opinions. I focus on two schools of thought: the political economy school and the public opinion school. The political economy tradition argues that people are mainly interested in their material interest: rich people want less income redistribution and poor people want more. Thus, rich people should be conservative and poor people should be liberal. The public opinion tradition argues that the more politically informed a person is the more likely she is to agree with her partisan affiliation. I extend this to imply that more informed people are more likely to be extreme in their political beliefs. Since Liberal and Conservative ideologies hold policy positions on many different issues (the economy, abortion, immigration, gay marriage, the environment), I do a study of how income and political knowledge effects a person's opinion on specific issues. I find support for both of these schools of thought on public opinion.
Author : Charles R. Beitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691221413
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Political Equality written by Charles R. Beitz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, Political Equality: An Essay in Democratic Theory, will be forthcoming.
Author : Richard S Katz
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446206815
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Party Politics written by Richard S Katz and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-01-05 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ′This thoughtful and wide-ranging review of parties and party research contains contributions from many of the foremost party scholars and is a must for all library shelves′ - Richard Luther, Keele University ′The study of political parties has never been livelier and this genuinely international Handbook – theoretically rich, comparatively informed, and focused on important questions – defines the field. This volume is both an indispensable summary of what we know and the starting point for future research′ - R K Carty, University of British Columbia ′Political parties are ubiquitous, but their forms and functions vary greatly from regime to regime, from continent to continent, and from era to era. The Handbook of Party Politics captures this variation and richness in impressive ways. The editors have assembled an excellent team, and the scope of the volume is vast and intriguing′ - Kaare Strom, University of California, San Diego Political parties are indispensable to democracy and a central subject of research and study in political science around the world. This major new handbook is the first to comprehensively map the state-of-the-art in contemporary party politics scholarship. The Handbook is designed to: - provide an invaluable survey of the major theories and approaches in this dynamic area of study and research - give students and researchers a concise ′road map′ to the core literatures in all the sub-fields of party related theorizing and research - identify the theories, approaches and topics that define the current ′cutting edge′ of the field. The Handbook is comparative in overall approach but also addresses some topics to be addressed in nationally or regionally specific ways. The resulting collaboration has brought together the world′s leading party theorists to provide an unrivalled resource on the role of parties in the pressing contemporary problems of institutional design and democratic governance today.
Author : Nicolas-Guillaume M. Martineau
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (772 download)
Download or read book Essays on Political Parties, Their Organization, and Policy Choice written by Nicolas-Guillaume M. Martineau and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary aim of this thesis is to advance economics' understanding of the organization of political parties, for the purpose of explaining the policy choices that result from collective decision procedures. Motivating this inquiry is the benign neglect that the political party as an organization has long suffered from in economics, in a manner that mirrors depictions of the firm in early neoclassical analysis. Accordingly, this thesis first considers the question of the relative influence of different contributors to the political parties' electoral activities, i.e. special-interest groups contributing money and individual party activists volunteering their time, on their choice of policy platforms. It is found that the presence of activists induces parties to offer differentiated policy platforms, even in the presence of a special-interest group whose contributions are perfectly substitutable with those of activists. Concurrently, the special interest's influence is to bias the parties' platforms towards its preferred policy. Second, the internal dynamics of parties organized into factions sharing common goals are investigated. It is studied how they affect the party leader's choice of policies while in office and her accountability to voters, through the threat of her removal from the party's helm. While occasionally acting as a distortion on the election mechanism's effectiveness for keeping politicians accountable, the presence of the politician's party is accountability-enhancing especially in the presence of other distortions. This contributes to a second-best theory of politics. This thesis' secondary aim is to contribute to restoring the use of moral and ethical concerns in normative analysis and political economy. This is warranted by the fact that moral and ethical motives matter more in such contexts than in most market transactions, where rational self-interested behaviour largely prevails. This objective is primarily represented in this thesis' study of normative analysis as conditioned on a societal consensus. This study asks how redistributive policies are to be optimally-chosen when the extent of societal co-operation regarding work participation depends on a social norm. Its main finding is that constraining the social planner's choices on the extent of societal cohesion restricts the scope of redistribution compared with an unconstrained social planner.
Author : Joel H. Silbey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140087114X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The History of American Electoral Behavior written by Joel H. Silbey and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on the American historical experience, the contributors to this volume apply quantitative techniques to the study of popular voting behavior. Their essays address problems of improving conceptualization and classifications of voting patterns, accounting for electoral outcomes, examining the nature and impact of constraints on participation, and considering the relationship of electoral behavior to subsequent public policy. The writers draw upon various kind of data: time series of election returns, census enumerations that provide the social and economic characteristics of voting populations, and individual poll books and other lists that indicate whom the individual voters actually supported. Appropriate statistical techniques serve to order the data and aid in evaluating relationships among them. The contributions cover electoral behavior throughout most of American history, as reflected by collections in official and private archives. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Lawrence Ezrow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199572526
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Linking Citizens and Parties written by Lawrence Ezrow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linking Citizens and Parties highlights the pathways through which citizens' political preferences are expressed by their political parties.
Author : Norman Wintrop
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351774727
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Democratic Theory as Public Philosophy: The Alternative to Ideology and Utopia written by Norman Wintrop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: This text contends that there are pronounced ideological (apologetic) and utopian biases in how democracy is now viewed by most academic writers, politicians and journalists. Ideological biases result from democracy being seen in formal and procedural ways as parliaments, free elections and competitive parties and pressure groups - irrespective of the standards which guide or the effects produced by these procedures. Utopian democrats reject this narrow empiricism for normative approaches and, instead of realistic norms, they offer impractical, perfectionist and counter-productive standards and goals. As the alternative to ideology and utopia, the author builds upon and draws conclusions from a realistic and normative, public philosophic tradition of writing on democratic politics. This tradition is explained and illustrated by critical responses to Walter Lippman's conception of public philosophy, Lippman's activity as a public philosopher, and the work of major democratic theorists from Alexis de Tocqueville to Giovanni Sartori.
Author : Avery Leiserson
Publisher : New York Knopf 1958.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Parties and Politics written by Avery Leiserson and published by New York Knopf 1958.. This book was released on 1958 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Frolik Adams
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472027182
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Party Competition and Responsible Party Government written by James Frolik Adams and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Reuven Y. Hazan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191591440
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Democracy within Parties written by Reuven Y. Hazan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can too much participation harm democracy? Democratic theory places great importance upon the conduct of elections, but it is not often recognized that the electoral game takes place in two arenas, not only between parties but also within them. This pioneering book presents a new approach to understanding political parties. It sheds light on the inner dynamics of party politics and offers the first comprehensive analysis of one of the most important processes any party undertakes - its process of candidate selection. Candidate selection methods are the mechanisms by which a party chooses its candidates for the general elections. It may be the function that separates parties from other organizations. For such an important function, this field has certainly faced a dearth of serious investigation. Hazan and Rahat, the leading scholars on this topic, conduct an in-depth analysis of the consequences of different candidate selection methods on democracy. This book is a culmination of almost two decades of research and defines the field of candidate selection. Part I of the book delineates candidate selection methods based on four major dimensions: candidacy; the selectorate; decentralization; and voting versus appointment systems. Part II analyses the political consequences of using different candidate selection methods according to four important aspects of democracy: participation; representation; competition; and responsiveness. The book ends with a proposed candidate selection method that optimally balances all four of the democratic aspects concurrently, and answers the question 'Is the most participatory candidate selection method necessarily the best one for democracy?' 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.essex.ac.uk/ecpr The General Editor is Professor David M. Farrell, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin.
