Electoral Politics

Inbunden, Engelska, 1992

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Beskrivning

Elections are universal methods of political choice and decision-making. This book has commissioned essays on key topics of voting behaviour, election rules, the media, election pacts, and the consequences of elections. The essays are by distinguished authors drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, including Donald Stokes, Austin Ranney, Richard Rose, Anthony King, and Dennis Kavanagh. They form a tribute to the famous student of elections, David Butler.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1992-10-29
Mått:147 x 223 x 22 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:278
Förlag:Clarendon Press
ISBN:9780198273813

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`the essays focus largely but not entirely on British elections. More strikingly uniform is the high quality of the several chapters ... a thoughtful placement of Butler's work in the British empirical tradition ... Such treatment, is consistent with insightful understanding vividly expressed'British Politics Group Newsletter

Innehållsförteckning

David Butler and the study of elections, Dennis Kavanagh; political change in Britain, Anthony King; press partisanship - into the 90s, Colin Seymour-Ure; dialogue of the deaf? the elite and the electorate in mid-century Britain, Hugh Berrington; the natives are restless - the reporting of British by-elections, David McKie; expressive versus instrumental voting, Richard Rose and Ian McAllister; valence politics, Donald Stokes; electoral pacts in Britain since 1886, Vernon Bogdanor; the British electoral system - fixture without foundation, John Curtice; divided party control in the United States, Austin Ranney; the electoral systems researcher as detective - probing Rae's suspect "differential proposition" on list PR, Arend Lijphart; Northern Ireland 1921-29 - a failed consociational experience, Cornelius O'Leary.