Product Description: Book by Gallagher, Michael

Product Description: A new and wide-ranging empirical overview of party policy in 47 modern democracies, including all of the new democracies of Eastern Europe. It updates and radically extends Policy and Party Competition (1992), which established itself as a key mainstream data source for all political scientists exploring the policy positions of political parties...read more

Product Description: This book gives an up to date reference on the state of the art in this highly important methodological area, which is central both to theoretical models of party competition and to empirical accounts, whether these are case studies or comparative analyses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The politics of coalition--the very heart of the political process in most European countries--can be analyzed either theoretically or empirically. Multiparty Government reconciles these approaches. It gives students of European politics access to the insights of contemporary theory while applying it to an analysis of real-world coalition politics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents games based on real-life politics that involve strategy and bargaining (view table of contents)

Product Description: Private Desires, Political Action is an accessible overview of one of the most important approaches to the study of politics in the modern world - rational choice theory. Michael Laver does not set out to review this entire field, but rather to discuss how we might use rational choice theory to analyze the political competition that affects almost every aspect of our lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: One of the key constitutional features of a parliamentary democracy is that the political executive, or cabinet, derives its mandate from - and is politically responsible to - the legislature. What makes a parliamentary democracy democratic is that, once a legislative election has been held, the new legislature has the power to dismiss the incumbent executive and replace it with a new one...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Policy and Party Competition offers both a theoretical and empirical examination of the subject. It opens with a theoretical discussion of the nature of political parties, policies and competition. Taking the view that the preferences of the electorate are the logical and ideological starting points of party competition, Laver and Hunt examine the structure of policy preferences, patterns in party systems, parameters of party competition and the role of party policy in government formation...read more

Product Description: This study examines five basic themes in the politics of coalition government: the identity and motivation of those involved in the coalition; the eventual membership of the coalition as they form; their durability; the payoffs that are shared out by coalition members; and the impact of constitutional, behavioral, and historical constraints on the process of bargaining...read more

Product Description: The author explores the processes and beaviour that make the institutions and systems of practical politics tick. He demonstrates how politics permeates our lives and outlines the politics of the future.

Product Description: `Social Choice and Public Policy' examines the way in which public policy on the same basic matters differs from one political system to another, and explores the different types of public reponse that are often produced by different types of policy within a single society...read more