9780521456586-0521456584-Multiparty Democracy: Elections and Legislative Politics (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)

Multiparty Democracy: Elections and Legislative Politics (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)

ISBN-13: 9780521456586
ISBN-10: 0521456584
Author: Norman Schofield, Itai Sened
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 258 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780521456586
ISBN-10: 0521456584
Author: Norman Schofield, Itai Sened
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 258 pages

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Multiparty Democracy: Elections and Legislative Politics (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) (ISBN-13: 9780521456586 and ISBN-10: 0521456584), written by authors Norman Schofield, Itai Sened, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Economics (Non-US Legal Systems, Legal Theory & Systems) books. You can easily purchase or rent Multiparty Democracy: Elections and Legislative Politics (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Economics books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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This book adapts a formal model of elections and legislative politics to study party politics in Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States. The approach uses the idea of valence, that is, the party leader's non-policy electoral popularity, and employs survey data to model these elections. The analysis explains why small parties in Israel and Italy keep to the electoral periphery. In the Netherlands, Britain, and the US, the electoral model is extended to include the behavior of activists. In the case of Britain, it is shown that there will be contests between activists for the two main parties over who controls policy. For the recent 2005 election, it is argued that the losses of the Labour party were due to Blair's falling valence. For the US, the model gives an account of the rotation of the locations of the two major parties over the last century.

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