Democratic Politics and Party Competition

by Bara; Judith

• ISBN13: 9780415385053
• ISBN10: 0415385059
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134173426
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This new book introduces innovative research on democracy from the leading Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP). It outlines the achievements of the project to date, illustrates how its findings may be applied, lays out the future challenges it faces and examines how the field as a whole can advance. It also presents a special assessment of the dimensionality of party competition, presenting ways in which research can be extended and related to broader approaches in Political Science and Theory. Although CMP research is widely used and constitutes the major comparative data set on party positions and ideological location, it is also subject to challenge. The volume therefore provides the reader with a clear sense of the key debates and questions surrounding its work. This volume also honors the life-time achievement of Professor Ian Budge, who has provided distinguished intellectual leadership for the CMP over the last twenty-five years. This is an essential point of reference forall comparative research on the functioning of democracies. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of politics and of democracy in particular.

Table of Contents

List of figures	xiii
List of tables	xv
List of contributors	xvii
Preface	xviii
Acknowledgements	xx
Introduction	1	(20)
Judith Bara
Albert Weale
Ian Budge: a life of writing and organising, walking and talking	21	(10)
Ken Newton
PART I Empirical developments and applications	31	(94)
Party government formation and policy preferences: an encompassing approach?	33	(23)
Hans Keman
Policy changes of parties in European Parliament party groups	56	(26)
Andrea Volkens
Parties in democracy, democracy in parties: lessons from Ian Budge and the CMP data	82	(23)
Michael D. Mcdonald
Do parties reflect public concerns?	105	(20)
Judith Bara
PART II Methodological directions and challenges	125	(76)
The dimensionality of party ideologies	127	(16)
Iain McLean
Occam no, Archimedes yes	143	(16)
Jack H. Nagel
On the dimensionality of political space and on its inhabitants	159	(20)
David Robertson
``Party-defined'' spaces revisited	179	(22)
Michael Laver
PART III Democratic processes and values	201	(111)
Ideological considerations and voting behaviour: a comparison of individual and aggregate level approaches	203	(19)
John Bartle
Does the median voter theorem wipe out political participation?	222	(23)
Paul Whiteley
Preference shaping and party competition: some empirical and theoretical arguments	245	(26)
Hugh Ward
Party competition and deliberative democracy	271	(16)
Albert Weale
Political tolerance: meaning, measurement and context	287	(25)
Donald D. Searing
Ivor Crewe
Pamela Johnston Conover
Bibliography of the works of Ian Budge	312	(2)
Index	314