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Author : Mona Marie Lyne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Voter's Dilemma and Electoral Competition written by Mona Marie Lyne and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mona M. Lyne
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271047852
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Voter's Dilemma and Democratic Accountability written by Mona M. Lyne and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents evidence that under certain widespread structural conditions, democratic accountability falls prey to the same N-person prisoner's dilemma that plagues any other decentralized attempt to procure collective goods. Examines four prominent democracies: postwar and contemporary Brazil and pre-Chavez and contemporary Venezuela"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Matthew J. Streb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135898677
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Rethinking American Electoral Democracy written by Matthew J. Streb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Streb provides an analysis of the major debates that rage among scholars and reformers on subjects as diverse as the number of elections we hold, the use of nonpartisan elections, and the presidential primary process.
Author : Michael P. McDonald
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815755813
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book The Marketplace of Democracy written by Michael P. McDonald and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1998, U.S. House incumbents have won a staggering 98 percent of their reelection races. Electoral competition has also declined in some state and primary elections. The Marketplace for Democracy combines the resources of two eminent research organizations—Brookings and the Cato Institute—to address several important questions about our democratic system. How pervasive is the lack of competition in arenas only previously speculated on, such as state legislative contests and congressional primaries? What have previous reform efforts, such as direct primaries and term limits, had on electoral competition? What are the effects of redistricting and campaign finance regulation? What role do third parties play? In sum, what does all this tell us about what might be done to increase electoral competition? The authors, including a number of today's most important scholars in American politics, consider the historical development, legal background, and political aspects of a system that is supposed to be responsive and accountable yet for many is becoming stagnant, self-perpetuating, and tone-deaf. How did we get to this point, and what—if anything—should be done about it? Elections are the vehicles through which Americans choose who governs them, and the power of the ballot is still the best lever ordinary citizens have in keeping public officials accountable. The Marketplace of Democracy considers different policy options for increasing the competition needed to keep American politics vibrant, responsive, and democratic. Contributors include Stephen Ansolabehere (MIT), William D. Berry (Florida State University), Bruce Cain (University of California–Berkeley), Thomas Carsey (Florida StateUniversity) James Gimpel (University of Maryland) John Hanley (UC–Berkeley), John Mark Hansen (University of Chicago), Paul S. Herrnson (University of Maryland) Gary Jacobson (University of California–San Diego) Thad Kousser (UC–San Diego), Frances Lee (University of Maryland), John Matsusaka (University of Southern California), Kenneth Mayer (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Michael P. McDonald (Brookings Institution and George Mason University), Jeffrey Milyo (University of Missouri–Columbia), Richard Niemi (University of Rochester) Nate Persily (University of Pennsylvania Law School), Lynda Powell (University of Rochester), David Primo (University of Rochester), John Samples (Cato Institute), and James Snyder Jr. (MIT).
Author : Bernard Grofman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472083435
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Information, Participation, and Choice written by Bernard Grofman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of the consequences for political science of Anthony Downs's seminal work.
Author : Matthew Ryan May
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Closed Primary, Exposed Preferences written by Matthew Ryan May and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ability to elect representatives is one of the most fundamental rights citizens of the United States of America possess, but the expression of that right looks very different from state to state. A state's primary system determines not only who participates in an election, but under what circumstances. When a state shifts from one primary system to another, it produces a period of uncertainty, as the electorate must acclimate to new rules and their attendant consequences. Among those who must adjust to the new rules are public state employees--the bureaucracy. When a shift necessitates and introduces a partisan registration system, the relationship that exists between the bureaucracy and elected policymakers can be altered. Following a 2011 federal court ruling, Idaho switched its primary from an open system (where no record of partisan affiliation is kept) to a closed system (where public partisan affiliation is required). This has left bureaucrats with two alternatives: register with a political party publicly or self-disenfranchise from primary elections. There is anecdotal evidence that, weighing the consequences of the two options, some bureaucrats in Idaho have opted for self-disenfranchisement. This dissertation examines the extent to which this phenomenon is prevalent in state government, using unique and original data: (1) tracing the registration and voting behavior of a sample of Idaho bureaucrats and (2) a unique survey of employees in four state agencies/offices. Beyond exploring the impact on bureaucratic participation, this dissertation also provides insight on the effect that Idaho's shift to a closed primary has had on voter turnout, electoral competition, and incumbent challenges."--Boise State University ScholarWorks.
Author : Jonathan Bendor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069113507X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book A Behavioral Theory of Elections written by Jonathan Bendor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most theories of elections assume that voters and political actors are fully rational. This title provides a behavioral theory of elections based on the notion that all actors - politicians as well as voters - are only boundedly rational.
Author : Candelaria Garay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108107974
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Social Policy Expansion in Latin America written by Candelaria Garay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century, much of the population in Latin America lacked access to social protection. Since the 1990s, however, social policy for millions of outsiders - rural, informal, and unemployed workers and dependents - has been expanded dramatically. Social Policy Expansion in Latin America shows that the critical factors driving expansion are electoral competition for the vote of outsiders and social mobilization for policy change. The balance of partisan power and the involvement of social movements in policy design explain cross-national variation in policy models, in terms of benefit levels, coverage, and civil society participation in implementation. The book draws on in-depth case studies of policy making in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico over several administrations and across three policy areas: health care, pensions, and income support. Secondary case studies illustrate how the theory applies to other developing countries.
Author : Elisabeth Kramer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501764039
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Candidate's Dilemma written by Elisabeth Kramer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Candidate's Dilemma, Elisabeth Kramer tells the story of how three political candidates in Indonesia made decisions to resist, engage in, or otherwise incorporate money politics into their electioneering strategies over the course of their campaigns. As they campaign, candidates encounter pressure from the institutional rules that guide elections, political parties, and voters, and must also negotiate complex social relationships to remain competitive. For anticorruption candidates, this context presents additional challenges for building and maintaining their identities. Some of these candidates establish their campaign parameters early and are able to stay their course. For others, the campaign trail results in an avalanche of compromises, each one eating away at their sense of what constitutes "moral" and "acceptable" behavior. The Candidate's Dilemma delves into the lived experiences of candidates to offer a nuanced study of how the political and personal intersect when it comes to money politics, anticorruptionism, and electoral campaigning in Indonesia.
Author : Ben Reilly
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309519101
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Electoral Systems and Conflict in Divided Societies written by Ben Reilly and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-05-04 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper is one of a series being prepared for the National Research Council's Committee on International Conflict Resolution. The committee was organized in late 1995 to respond to a growing need for prevention, management, and resolution of violent conflict in the international arena, a concern about the changing nature and context of such conflict in the post-Cold War era, and a recent expansion of knowledge in the field. The committee's main goal is to advance the practice of conflict resolution by using the methods and critical attitude of science to examine the effectiveness of various techniques and concepts that have been advanced for preventing, managing, and resolving international conflicts. The committee's research agenda has been designed to supplement the work of other groups, particularly the Carnegie Corporation of New York's Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, which issued its final report in December 1997. The committee has identified a number of specific techniques and concepts of current interest to policy practitioners and has asked leading specialists on each one to carefully review and analyze available knowledge and to summarize what is known about the conditions under which each is or is not effective. These papers present the results of their work.
Author : Mark N. Franklin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521541473
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Voter Turnout and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Established Democracies Since 1945 written by Mark N. Franklin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voting is a habit. People learn the habit of voting, or not, based on experience in their first few elections. Elections that do not stimulate high turnout among young adults leave a 'footprint' of low turnout in the age structure of the electorate as many individuals who were new at those elections fail to vote at subsequent elections. Elections that stimulate high turnout leave a high turnout footprint. So a country's turnout history provides a baseline for current turnout that is largely set, except for young adults. This baseline shifts as older generations leave the electorate and as changes in political and institutional circumstances affect the turnout of new generations. Among the changes that have affected turnout in recent years, the lowering of the voting age in most established democracies has been particularly important in creating a low turnout footprint that has grown with each election.
Author : Alberto Diaz-Cayeros
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107140285
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Political Logic of Poverty Relief written by Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Logic of Poverty Relief places electoral politics and institutional design at the core of poverty alleviation. The authors develop a theory with applications to Mexico about how elections shape social programs aimed at aiding the poor. They also assess whether voters reward politicians for targeted poverty alleviation programs.
Author : Yonatan L. Morse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108474764
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book How Autocrats Compete written by Yonatan L. Morse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how autocrats compete in unfair elections in Africa and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of modern authoritarianism.
Author : Christopher H. Achen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400888743
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Democracy for Realists written by Christopher H. Achen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Zoltan Hajnal
Publisher : Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN 13 : 1582130337
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Finding Common Ground written by Zoltan Hajnal and published by Public Policy Instit. of CA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Budge
Publisher : ECPR Press
ISBN 13 : 0955820340
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (558 download)
Download or read book Party Identification and Beyond written by Ian Budge and published by ECPR Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Geoffrey Brennan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521585248
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (852 download)
Download or read book Democracy and Decision written by Geoffrey Brennan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The significance of this account should be clear. If, as economists frequently assert, proper diagnosis of the disease is a crucial prerequisite to treatment, then the design of appropriate democratic institutions depends critically on a coherent analysis of the way the electoral process works and the perversities to which it is prone. The claim is that the interest-based account incorrectly diagnoses the disease. Accordingly, this book ends with an account of the institutional protections that go with expressive voting."--BOOK JACKET.
