Read and Download eBook Full
Author: Herbert Kitschelt
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-05-15
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1501745956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on interviews with more than 130 party activists, Herbert Kitschelt provides an incisive account of the development of three vanguard ecological parties in contemporary Western Europe—the Green party of West Germany, and the Belgian ecological parties Agalev and Ecolo.
Author: Sona Nadenichek Golder
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0814210295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy do some parties coordinate their electoral strategies as part of a pre-electoral coalition, while others choose to compete independently at election time? Scholars have long ignored pre-electoral coalitions in favor of focusing on the government coalitions that form after parliamentary elections. Yet electoral coalitions are common, they affect electoral outcomes, and they have important implications for democratic policy-making itself. The Logic of Pre-Electoral Coalition Formation by Sona Nadenichek Golder includes a combination of methodological approaches (game theoretic, statistical, and historical) to explain why pre-electoral coalitions form in some instances but not in others. The results indicate that pre-electoral coalitions are more likely to form between ideologically compatible parties. They are also more likely to form when the expected coalition size is large (but not too large) and when the potential coalition partners are similar in size. Ideologically polarized party systems and disproportional electoral rules in combination also increase the likelihood of electoral coalition formation. Golder links the analysis of pre-electoral coalition formation to the larger government coalition literature by showing that pre-electoral agreements increase (a) the likelihood that a party will enter government, (b) the ideological compatibility of governments, and (c) the speed with which governments take office. In addition, pre-electoral coalitions provide an opportunity for combining the best elements of the majoritarian vision of democracy with the best elements of the proportional vision of democracy.
Author: Tad Shull
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780791440414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the strategic impact of two European ecology parties on the recomposition of left-wing politics in their countries.
Author: Samuel Kernell
Publisher: CQ Press
Published: 2021-01-20
Total Pages: 785
ISBN-13: 1071815946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy does the American political system work the way it does? Find the answers in The Logic of American Politics. This bestselling text arms students with a "toolkit" of institutional design concepts—command, veto, agenda control, voting rules, and delegation—to help them comprehend how the American political system was designed and why it works the way it does. The authors build students′ critical thinking through a simple yet powerful idea: politics is about solving collective action problems. This thoroughly updated Tenth Edition considers the most recent events and data, including rising political polarization, the country’s reaction to changing demographics, and Americans’ growing emotional involvement in politics. With a fresh analysis of the 2020 election results, this bestseller provides students the tools they need to make sense of the government they have. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Contact your SAGE representative to request a demo. Digital Option / Courseware SAGE Vantage is an intuitive digital platform that delivers this text’s content and course materials in a learning experience that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. Learn more. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available with SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. Watch a sample video now. LMS Cartridge (formerly known as SAGE Coursepacks): Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more. CQ Press Lecture Spark: Designed to save you time and ignite student engagement, these free weekly lecture launchers focus on current event topics tied to key concepts in American Government. Access this week’s topic.
Author: J. Hopkin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 033398336X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe abrupt collapse and dissolution of the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD), the party which governed Spain during the crucial period of the transition to democracy (1977-82), is one of the most extraordinary events in the history of European party politics. This book develops an original theoretical framework for the study of party institutionalisation, and draws on a wide range of empirical sources to offer new insights into the causes of the UCD's collapse.
Author: Catherine Lena Kelly
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-06-22
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 3030196178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyzes several components of democratization and party competition in West Africa focusing on Senegal – a country with one of the longest histories of multiparty elections. It does so in service of examining the origins and consequences of the proliferation of political parties, a trend that has taken hold in Senegal and a variety of other African countries. The author uses novel sources of data to illuminate the economic and political roots of party functions and trajectories by placing party formation, opposition, ruling party loyalty, and presidential turnover into local and regional contexts. This work will appeal to African Studies scholars, professors, graduate students, and policy makers.
Author: Alan J. Ware
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1349046213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Helmut Wiesenthal
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780719037016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study provides a critique of ecological fundamentalism based on the experience of West German Green politics. It proposes structural reforms for achieving sustainable resources in modern societies, and advocates political realism as the best way to reconcile social and ecological objects.
Author: John Lowenhardt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1136321071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolitical parties are the fabric of democratic politics. In 1991 a new Russia emerged after seven decades of one-party dictatorship, claiming to be on the road towards democracy. In this volume the authors analyse the many contradictions, dilemmas, and paradoxes of reconstituting free party politics and democratic rule in a severely traumatized country. Frequently from a comparative perspective they deal with a range of topics, from the behaviour of the new parties in parliament, the role of ideology in cementing party organizations, to the character and prospects of the transient Russian party system.
Author: Ervin Csizmadia
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 166690693X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Assuming a historico-political-science approach, the author argues that Orbánism can be understood not from Viktor Orbán himself but an analysis of the longer processes of Hungarian political development. Understanding is not acquiescence but a more complex interpretation than mainstream approaches afford"--
