عنوان

Ideology, strategy, and party change :

(Number (ISBN

0511558775

(Number (ISBN

9780511558771

Erroneous ISBN

0521306485

Erroneous ISBN

9780521056670

Erroneous ISBN

9780521306485

Number

b746311

Title Proper

Ideology, strategy, and party change :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

spatial analyses of post-war election programmes in 19 democracies /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Ian Budge, David Robertson, Derek Hearl.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1987.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xvii, 494 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

The relevance of this book to central concerns of political and social science hardly needs emphasizing. Parties are the organizing force of democratic governments, giving coherence and direction to their policies and relating them to popular preferences. Election programmes are crucial to this role, providing electors with some insight into the policies they are voting for, and parties themselves with a starting point for their activity in government. Discussion begins with a comparative assessment of the impact of election pledges on government action. The book goes on to describe systematically the place of the programmes in the political process of nineteen democracies. It subjects them to detailed qualitative, quantitative and spatial analyses to answer such questions as: Who prepares election programmes and how? What is the nature of modern party divisions? Do they differ across countries? Is there indeed an 'end of ideology' or an intensification? Does the need to attract votes weaken old partisan attachments? Combining individual studies of each country with comparative analyses on a scale never previously undertaken, the book will interest country specialists and comparativists and prove indispensable to research on voting and party behaviour, coalition formation, ideology, and rational choice.

Title

Ideology, strategy, and party change.

Elections.

Political campaigns.

Political parties.

Elections.

Political campaigns.

Political parties.

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Budge, Ian.

Hearl, Derek.

Robertson, David,1946-

Date of Transaction

20201204062924.0

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pn

Electronic name

[Book]

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