Warren Miller, Roy Pierce, Jacques Thomassen, Richard Herrera, Sören Holmberg, Peter Esaisson, Bernhard Webels

Policy Representation in Western Democracies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comparative analysis of policy representation in five Western Democracies: France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the US. A leading group of authors examines the impact of belief systems and geographical and institutional characteristics on the match between the policy preferences of the electorate and those of their representatives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780198295709
• ISBN-10: 0198295707
• Artikelnr.: 24079477

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Warren Miller: Introduction: Elite-Mass Linkage in Representative
Democracy
* 2: Roy Pierce: Mass-Elite Issue Linkages and the Responsible Party
Model of Representation
* 3: Jacques Thomassen: Political Communication between Political
Elites and Mass Publics: The Role of Belief Systems
* 4: Richard Herrera: The Language of Politics: A Study of Elite and
Mass Understandings of Ideological Terminology in the United States
and the Netherlands
* 5: Sören Holmberg: Collective Policy Congruence Compared
* 6: Peter Esaisson: Not all Politics is Local: The Geographical
Dimension of Policy Representation
* 7: Bernhard Wessels: System Characteristics Matter: Empirical
Evidence from Ten Representation Studies
* Conclusion: Mixed Signals