Comparative Democratic Politics: A Guide to Contemporary Theory and Research

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Hans Keman
SAGE, 2002年3月26日 - 326页
Democracy is the most widely used way of organizing politics in the contemporary world. Comparative Democratic Politics brings together a team of renowned international scholars to provide a comprehensive review of theory and research in this essential area of comparative study.

A key aim to the book is to introduce and understand representative democracy as a political process and contemporary system of governance in need of constant attention and scrutiny.

Four important themes include:

· the contribution of comparative politics as a distinct field within political science to our understanding of democracy, democratic politics and democratic theory

· what we can learn from a comparative analysis of the role, functioning and behaviour of the principal actors (electorate, parties and institutions) across nations

· the relationship between politics and public policy formation and processes of democratic decision-making and corresponding policy-making capacity

· how we measure contemporary democracy or democratic performance in both a procedural and material sense.

Comparative Democratic Politics will afford new and important insights to the contemporary study of representative democracy. It will be essential reading for all students and academics of political science and public policy seeking a deeper understanding of both the world′s so called established and emerging democracies.

 

目录

The Comparative Approach to Democracy
1
Chapter 1 The comparative approach to democracy
3
Chapter 2 The development of the study of comparative politics
16
Theories and evidence
32
Parties and government in democracies
63
Modelling party democracy across 16 countries
65
Chapter 5 Voters elections and ideology in European democracies
99
Mass electoral behaviour in western Europe 19502000
122
Chapter 8 The impact of political parties constitutional structures and veto players on public policy
166
Chapter 9 Comparative politics and the welfare state
185
The Political performance of democracies
213
An emergent field of study
215
Are there institutional effects?
233
Chapter 12 Democratic institutions governance and political performance
257
Bibliography
287
Index
320

Democratic institutions and political action
141
The cases of consociational democracy and corporatism
143

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作者简介 (2002)

Hans Keman is Professor and Chair of Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam CONTRIBUTORS′ AFFILIATIONS: Klaus Armingeon Institut fuer Politiekwissenschapft, Unitobler Uwe Becker Universiteit van Amsterdam Ian Budge University of Essex Francis Castles The Australian National University, Canberra Hans Daalder The Hague Svante Errson Umea Universitet Kees van Kersbergen Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen Jan-Erik Lane Universite de Geneve Peter Mair Universiteit van Leiden Paul Pennings Vrije Universiteit Manfred Schmidt

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