Comparative democratic politics
Subtitle: a guide to contemporary theory and research
By: edited by Hans Keman.
Contributors: Keman, Hans.
Publisher: SAGE; SAGE Publications Ltd
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; Thousand oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Democracy.; Comparative government.; Representative government and representation.; Gouvernement représentatif.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-319) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The; title: comparative approach to democracy --; title: Comparative approach to democracy -- Hans Keman; title: Development of the study of comparative politics -- Hans Daalder; title: Comparing democracies: theories and evidence -- Hans Keman -- Pt. 2. Parties and government in democracies; title: Comparative government and democracy -- Ian Budge, Richard Hofferbert, Hans Keman, Michael McDonald, Paul Pennings; title: Voters, elections and ideology in European democracies -- Paul Pennings; title: In the aggregate: mass electoral behaviour in Western Europe, 1950-2000 -- Peter Mair -- Pt. 3. Democratic institutions and political action; title: Interest intermediation: the cases of consociational democracy and corporatism -- Klaus Armingeon; title: Impact of political parties, constitutional structures and veto players on public policy -- Manfred G. Schmidt; title: Comparative politics and the welfare state -- Kees van Kersbergen and Uwe Becker -- Pt. 4. The political performance of democracies; title: Policy performance in the democratic state: an emergent field of study -- Francis G. Castles; title: Democratic performance: are there institutional effects? -- Jan-Erik Lane and Svante Ersson; title: Democratic institutions, governance and political performance -- Hans Keman with the collaboration of Malika Aït Mallouk.