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EBOOK Organizing Democratic Choice:Party Representation Over Time
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191626647
EAN: 7EA67115EB
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Stron: 336
Data wydania: 2012
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This bold venture into democratic theory offers a new and reinvigorating thesis        for how democracy delivers on its promise of public control over public policy. In        theory, popular control could be achieved through a process entirely driven by        supply-side politics, with omniscient and strategic political parties converging on        the median voter's policy preference at every turn. However, this would imply that        there would be no distinguishable political parties (or even any reason forparties        to exist) and no choice for a public to make. The more realistic view taken here        portrays democracy as an ongoing series of give and take between political parties'        policy supply and a mass public's policy demand. Political parties organize        democratic choices as divergent policyalternatives, none of which is likely to        satisfy the public's policy preferences at any one turn. While the one-off,        short-run consequence of a single election often results in differences between the        policies that parliaments and governments pursue and the preferences their publics        hold, the authors construct theoretical arguments, employ computer simulations, and        follow up with empirical analysis to show how, why, and under what conditions        democratic representation reveals itself over time.Democracy, viewed as a process        rather than a single electoral event, can and usually does forge strong and        congruent linkages between a public and its government. This original thesis offers        a challenge to democratic pessimists who would have everyone believe that neither        political parties nor masspublics are up to the tasks that democracy assigns        them.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.ecprnet.eu The Comparative Politics        series is edited by Professor David M. Farrell, School of Politics and International        Relations, University College Dublin, Kenneth Carty, Professor of Political Science,        University of British Columbia, and Professor Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Institute of        Political Science, Philipps University, Marburg.

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