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9780415368322

Party Policy in Modern Democracies

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415368322

  • ISBN10:

    0415368324

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-11-20
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Policy and Party Competition(1992) established itself as one of the mainstream data sources used by political scientists, when exploring the policy positions of political parties and has become a standard data resource for comparative political science. This new book updates and radically extends this work, providing a wide-ranging empirical overview of party policy in 47 modern democracies, including all of the new democracies of Eastern Europe. The book is divided into three parts: Part I introduces the study, themes and methodology Part II contains a set of substantive chapters dealing in depth with the wide range of issues involved in the estimating and analyzing the policy positions of key political actors. Part III is the data section identifying the key policy dimensions in each of the 47 countries, party positions and median legislators on each of these, and a two-dimensional representation of each party system. This book willprove to be an invaluable reference for all political scientists, particularly those interested in party policy and comparative politics.

Author Biography

Michael Laver is Professor of Politics at New York University, USA. Kenneth Benoit is Associate Professor of Political Science, at Trinity College, Dublin.

Table of Contents

List of figures
viii
List of tables
x
Introduction 1(8)
PART I Policy and political competition
9(70)
Dimensions of political difference
11(24)
Policy positions and theoretical models of political competition
35(21)
Empirical policy spaces
56(23)
PART II Measuring policy positions
79(76)
Measuring policy positions
81(21)
The dimensional structure of policy spaces
102(27)
Left and right in comparative context
129(20)
In conclusion
149(6)
PART III Data
155(117)
Appendix A: methodology and diagnostics
157(19)
Appendix B: country data
176(96)
Notes 272(4)
Bibliography 276(6)
Index 282

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