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ISBN 10: 0761954767
ISBN 13: 9780761954767
Author: Dr Hans Keman
Democracy is the most widely used way of organizing politics in the contemporary world. Comparative Democratic Politics brings together a team of renowned international scholars to provide a comprehensive review of theory and research in this essential area of comparative study. A key aim to the book is to introduce and understand representative democracy as a political process and contemporary system of governance in need of constant attention and scrutiny. Four important themes include: · the contribution of comparative politics as a distinct field within political science to our understanding of democracy, democratic politics and democratic theory · what we can learn from a comparative analysis of the role, functioning and behaviour of the principal actors (electorate, parties and institutions) across nations · the relationship between politics and public policy formation and processes of democratic decision-making and corresponding policy-making capacity · how we measure contemporary democracy or democratic performance in both a procedural and material sense. Comparative Democratic Politics will afford new and important insights to the contemporary study of representative democracy. It will be essential reading for all students and academics of political science and public policy seeking a deeper understanding of both the world′s so called established and emerging democracies.
Part One The Comparative Approach To Democracy
1 The Comparative Approach to Democracy
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The pursuit of political order: democracy and performance
1.3 Politics, polity and policy: towards an interactive model of actors and institutions
1.4 New institutionalism and political room to manoeuvre in democracies
1.5 The political chain of democratic command and control
2 The Development of the Study of Comparative Politics
2.1 The academic tradition
2.2 The political shocks of the twentieth century and the erosion of institutional certainties
2.3 Academe and a changing political universe
2.4 The new comparative politics
2.5 Inevitable reactions
2.6 Rethinking Europe
2.7 Different research strategies for studying democracy
2.8 New approaches to the study of democratic politics
2.9 The great new challenges
3 Comparing Democracies: Theories and Evidence
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Doing comparative research: substance and method
3.3 The concept of democracy as a comparative variable
3.4 Explaining variations of democracy
3.5 Democracy and diffusion: the viability and performance of democraticness
3.6 Concluding remarks
Appendix: Variables and sources
Part Two Parties And Government In Democracies
4 Comparative Government and Democracy
4.1 Studying democracy comparatively
4.2 Comparative evidence on democracy as a process
4.3 Modelling party democracy
4.4 Comparative data sets
4.5 An overview of results from comparative statistical investigation
4.6 A validated and specified model of democratic processes
4.7 Specifying models for particular policy areas
4.7.1 Non-mediated processes: education
4.7.2 Popular influence on the overall size of government
4.7.3 Party priorities in welfare and defence
4.7.4 Electoral choices between government priorities – where there is a choice
4.8 General lessons from modelling democratic processes
Appendix: Targeting policy priorities: a purposive statistical model
5 Voters, Elections and Ideology in European Democracies
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The state of the art: theories of electoral behaviour
5.2.1 The sociological approach
5.3 Institutions and the electoral diversity of European established democracies
5.4 The role of ideology in elections
5.5 Electoral participation and political disillusionment
5.6 European parliamentary elections
5.7 Conclusions
6 In the Aggregate: Mass Electoral Behaviour in Western Europe, 1950–2000
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Aggregate electoral change
6.3 Mass electoral participation
6.4 Aggregate electoral volatility
6.5 Electoral support for new political parties
6.6 Electoral support for the Greens and the extreme Right
6.7 Conclusion
Part Three Democratic Institutions And Political Action
7 Interest Intermediation: the Cases of Consociational Democracy and Corporatism
7.1 Introduction: What is corporatism and consociational democracy about?
7.2 Who discovered it when?
7.3 Consociational and consensus democracies: definitions and data
7.4 Corporatism classified: definitions and data
7.5 Corporatism and consociationalism: Is it nearly the same?
7.6 Rise and decline of consociationalism and corporatism
7.7 The persistence and viability of negotiation democracy
7.8 Conclusions
8 The Impact of Political Parties, Constitutional Structures and Veto Players on Public Policy
8.1 Democratic policy-making
8.2 The parties-do-matter hypothesis
8.3 Measuring party composition of government and findings from parties-do-matter theory
8.4 Incumbent parties, constitutional structure and veto players
8.5 The impact of constitutional structures and veto players on public policy
8.6 Conclusion
9 Comparative Politics and the Welfare State
9.1 Introduction
9.2 A history of theories
9.2.1 Functional accounts
9.2.2 Social Democracy as a model of the welfare state
9.2.3 Challenges to the social democratic thesis
9.3 Rethinking welfare state theory
9.3.1 The theory of welfare state regimes
9.3.2 The institutionalist turn
9.4 Risks and social security
9.4.1 Liberalism, social democracy, and paternalism
9.4.2 Systematic differences
9.4.3 Challenges and reforms
9.5 Political issues and theoretical perspectives
9.5.1 Political issues
9.5.2 Theoretical perspectives
Part Four The Political Performance Of Democracies
10 Policy Performance in the Democratic State: an Emergent Field of Study
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Why the post-war world was different
10.3 The ‘politics-does-matter’ debate
10.4 Pathways to policy
10.5 Constrained autonomy and policy convergence
10.6 The impact of interests
10.7 The complexities of partisanship
10.8 The institutions of government
10.9 Conclusions
11 Democratic Performance: Are There Institutional Effects?
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Institutional effects
11.3 Democratic institutions: intrinsic or extrinsic importance?
11.3.1 Institutional importance: intrinsic or extrinsic
11.3.2 Institutions: rules or actors
11.4 Impact of democracy: de Tocqueville’s model
11.4.1 Level of human development
11.4.2 Welfare state policies
11.4.3 Equality
11.4.4 Summing up
11.5 Democracy: the differentia specifica
11.5.1 Two ideal-types of democracy?
11.5.2 How much institutional convergence?
11.6 Institutional performance in democracies
11.7 Are there democratic institutional effects?
11.8 Which type of democracy is best?
11.9 Conclusions
Appendix 1: Variables and sources
Appendix 2: Classification of democratic regimes
12 Democratic Institutions, Governance and Political Performance
12.1 The meaning of the concept of democratic governance
12.1.1 Government and governance: multifarious concepts
12.1.2 Towards a definition of government
12.2 Government and the political system: governance
12.2.1 Government as a structural element of society
12.2.2 Political institutions and the structure of government
12.3 Political regimes and the shaping of government
12.3.1 Representative government
12.3.2 Presidential government
12.3.3 Parliamentary government
12.3.4 Dual power government
12.4 The form of government: Format and organization
12.4.1 State format and the shaping of government
12.4.2 The organization of representative government
12.5 Political performance and democratic governance
12.5.1 The policy performance within democracies
12.5.2 Types of democratic government and policy performance
12.5.3 The impact of state format and organization of government on policy performance
12.6 Democratic government and democratic governance
12.6.1 State format, type of government and level of democraticness
12.6.2 Policy performance, democratic performance and the quality of life
12.6.3 Dissatisfaction, underperformance and democraticness
12.7 Conclusions
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