Norman Schofield, Itai Sened

Multiparty Democracy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book adapts a formal model of elections and legislative politics to study party politics in Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States. The approach uses the idea of valence, that is, the party leader's non-policy electoral popularity, and employs survey data to model these elections. The analysis explains why small parties in Israel and Italy keep to the electoral periphery. In the Netherlands, Britain, and the US, the electoral model is extended to include the behavior of activists. In the case of Britain, it is shown that there will be contests between activists for the two main parties over who controls policy. For the recent 2005 election, it is argued that the losses of the Labour party were due to Blair's falling valence. For the US, the model gives an account of the rotation of the locations of the two major parties over the last century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780521456586
• ISBN-10: 0521456584
• Artikelnr.: 21905616

Autorenporträt

Norman Schofield is Taussig Professor in Political Economy at Washington University in St Louis. He has served as Fulbright Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Humboldt University Berlin in 2003-04, and held a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 1988-89. Professor Schofield is the author of Architects of Political Change (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Mathematical Methods in Economics and Social Choice (2003), Multiparty Government (coauthored with Michael Laver, 1990), and Social Choice and Democracy (1985). He received the William Riker Prize in 2002 for contributions to political theory and is corecipient with Gary Miller of the Jack L. Walker Prize for the best article on political organizations and parties in the American Political Science Review for 2002-04.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Multiparty democracy
2. Elections and democracy
3. A theory of political competition
4. Elections in Israel 1988-1996
5. Elections in Italy: 1992-1996
6. Elections in the Netherlands: 1979-1981
7. Elections in Britain: 1979-2005
8. Political realignments in the U.S.
9. Concluding remarks
10. References
11. Tables and figures.