The vulnerability thesis by Lorelei K. Moosbrugger ISBN 9780300166798, 0300166796 instant download

The vulnerability thesis by Lorelei K. Moosbrugger ISBN 9780300166798, 0300166796 instant download

Where Politics Is Dominated By Two Large Parties, As In The United States, Politicians Should Be Relatively Immune To The Influence Of Small Groups. Yet Narrow Interest Groups Often Win Private Benefits Against Majority Preferences And At Great Public Expense. Why? The Vulnerability Thesis Is That The Electoral System Is Largely To Blame, Making Politicians In Two-party Systems More Vulnerable To Interest Group Demands Than Politicians In Multiparty Systems. Political Scientist Lorelei Moosbrugger Ranks Democracies On A Continuum Of Political Vulnerability And Tests The Thesis By Examining Agrochemical Policy In Austria, Britain, Germany, Sweden, And The European Union. Reface -- Interest Group Influence And Institutional Design -- The Vulnerability Thesis -- Evidence From The Environment -- The European Union -- The United Kingdom: Minority Influence And Majority Rule -- Germany: The Politics Of Paying The Polluter -- Austria: Political Cover And Policy Choice -- Sweden: Minority Representation And The Majority Interest -- Institutional Design And The Quality Of Democracy. Lorelei K. Moosbrugger. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Where politics is dominated by two large parties, as in the United States, politicians should be relatively immune to the influence of small groups. Yet narrow interest groups often win private benefits against majority preferences and at great public expense. Why? The \"vulnerability thesis\" is that the electoral system is largely to blame, making politicians in two-party systems more vulnerable to interest group demands than politicians in multiparty systems. Political scientist Lorelei Moosbrugger ranks democracies on a continuum of political vulnerability and tests the thesis by examining agrochemical policy in Austria, Britain, Germany, Sweden, and the European Union Using the example of the agrochemical industry in four countries - Britain, Germany, Austria, and Sweden, the author posits a continuum of political…