Policy Horizons and Parliamentary Government - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Policy Horizons and Parliamentary Government write by P. Warwick. This book was released on 2006-03-13. Policy Horizons and Parliamentary Government available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book introduces a new hypothesis concerning the formation and survival of coalition governments in Western European parliamentary democracies, the policy horizon hypothesis. The book finds support for the hypothesis in a wide array of evidence, including findings based on a new survey of experts in West European political systems.
Party Governance and Party Democracy
Party Governance and Party Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Party Governance and Party Democracy write by Wolfgang C. Müller. This book was released on 2013-05-15. Party Governance and Party Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Given the centrality of political parties in modern democracies, most research on these systems either directly address their internal functioning and activities or question their critical role. Political science has moved from describing institutions to the thorough analysis of behavior within these institutions and the interactions between them. The inevitable consequences of the maturing and institutionalization of the discipline of political science in many countries include the forming of sub-fields and specialized research communities. At the same time the number of democracies has vastly increased since the 1980s and although not each attempt at democratization was eventually successful, more heterogeneous systems with some form of party competition exist than ever before. As a consequence, the literature addressing the large issues of party democracy spreads over many research fields and has become difficult to master for individual students of party democracy and party governance. The present volume sets out to review the behavior and larger role of political parties in modern democracies. In so doing the book takes its departure from the idea that the main contribution of political parties to the working of democracy is their role as vehicles of political competition in systems of government. Consequently the focus is not merely in the internal functioning of political parties, but rather their behavior the electoral, legislative, and governmental arenas. Thus several chapters address how political parties perform within the existing institutional frameworks. One more chapter looks at the role of political parties in building and adapting these institutions. Finally, two chapters explicitly address the party contributions to democracy in established and new democracies, respectively.
Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments
Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments write by Daniela Giannetti. This book was released on 2008-10-27. Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how intra-party politics affects government formation and termination in parliamentary systems, where the norm is the formation of coalition governments. The authors look beyond party cohesion and discipline in parliamentary democracies to take a broader view, assuming a diversity of preferences among party members and then exploring the incentives that give rise to coordinated party behaviour at the electoral, legislative and executive levels. The chapters in this book share a common analytical framework, confronting theoretical models of government formation with empirical data, some drawn from cross-national analyses and others from theoretically structured case studies. A distinctive feature of the book is that it explores the impact of intra-party politics at different levels of government: national, local and EU. This offers the opportunity to investigate existing theories of coalition formation in new political settings. Finally, the book offers a range of innovative methods for investigating intra-party politics which, for example, creates a need to estimate the policy positions of individual politicians inside political parties. This book will be of interest to political scientists, especially scholars involved in research on political parties, parliamentary systems, coalition formation and legislative behaviour, multilevel governance, European and EU politics.
Parties, Institutions and Preferences
Parties, Institutions and Preferences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Parties, Institutions and Preferences write by Erik Baltz. This book was released on 2022-05-13. Parties, Institutions and Preferences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book focuses on the traditional view of party-voter representation, parties and their respective positions, and party systems as central actors, the role of governmental institutions as well on policy inputs, outputs, and outcomes and the agenda setting process. The fundamental characteristics of the political actors such as political parties and the party system and their ideological composition are dealt with. The role governmental institutions play in the policy making process are exemplified covering the characteristics of the agenda-setting power and the consequences for the government’s survival. The results of these mechanisms are analyzed while focusing on some classical policies of comparative research such as social and environmental policy.
Conservation Research, Policy and Practice
Conservation Research, Policy and Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conservation Research, Policy and Practice write by William J. Sutherland. This book was released on 2020-04-16. Conservation Research, Policy and Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discover how conservation can be made more effective through strengthening links between science research, policy and practice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
