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9780198295709

Policy Representation in Western Democracies

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198295709

  • ISBN10:

    0198295707

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-02-10
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations xi
Elite--Mass Linkages in Representative Democracy: Introduction
1(8)
Warren E. Miller
Mass--Elite Issue Linkages and the Responsible Party Model of Representation
9(24)
Roy Pierce
Political Communication between Political Elites and Mass Publics: The Role of Belief Systems
33(26)
Jacques Thomassen
The Language of Politics: A Study of Elite and Mass Understandings of Ideological Terminology in the United States and the Netherlands
59(28)
Richard Herrera
Collective Policy Congruence Compared
87(23)
Soren Holmberg
Not All Politics is Local: The Geographical Dimension of Policy Representation
110(27)
Peter Esaiasson
System Characteristics Matter: Empirical Evidence from Ten Representation Studies
137(29)
Bernhard Wessels
Conclusion: Mixed Signals
162(4)
Roy Pierce
Appendix 166(7)
Index 173

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