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This book addresses the crucial question of how to get action from governments, who will always put short-term considerations over longer term climate priorities - unless forced to do otherwise. It will be of interest internationally to climate change campaigners, activists, political and environmental scientists.

This book addresses the crucial question of how to get action from governments, who will always put short-term considerations over longer term climate priorities - unless forced to do otherwise. It will be of interest internationally to climate change campaigners, activists, political and environmental scientists.

Organizing Democratic Choice offers a new, invigorating theory of how democracy actually works. It also presents a challenge to democratic pessimists who would have everyone believe that neither political parties nor mass publics are up to the tasks that democracy assigns them.

This comprehensive introduction to politics provides an essential template for assessing the health and workings of present day democracy by exploring how democratic processes bring public policy into line with popular preferences.

This comprehensive introduction to politics provides an essential template for assessing the health and workings of present day democracy by exploring how democratic processes bring public policy into line with popular preferences.

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Examines the state of the British political system during the 1990s covering such areas as: economic difficulties and government response, bureaucratic networks, parties and electors, political communications, and relations with outside governments.

This book examines the actual behavior of 400 governments in 20 postwar democracies (including those of Western Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Israel) to determine how political parties operate and shape the special characteristics of individual governments. It concludes that parties do function more or less as modern democratic theory says they should, and provides an understanding of democratic government and its moral ju...

This unique book contains the only set of statistical estimates of party, government, and electoral preferences in 25 countries over the entire post-war period. These are based on content analyses of electoral and government programs for each election and government of the period, a task which no one else has even attempted. The printed text provides documentation and suggests uses for data, along with much other background information.

This comprehensive book examines comparatively the major political development of our time: the explosion of democracy in Europe and the Third World, and its deepening in the West. The book analyzes how the new democracies are experimenting with Western models while also highlighting how these models are themselves seriously problematic. Topics include: the relationship of democracy in the nation-state to trans-national and international inst...

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Coalitions are the commonest kind of democratic government, occurring frequently in most countries of western Europe. It is usually assumed that political parties came together in a government coalition because they agree already, or can reach an agreement, on the policy it should pursue. This book examines this idea using evidence from party election programmes and government programmes. It demonstrates that party policies do influence govern...

First published in 1976, this classic volume of original essays provides a unique and comprehensive review of the approaches and assumptions that dominate the field of election studies and voting behaviour. Critical reviews of theory and established research are combined with innovative and original studies of a variety of European countries, as well as North America. The volume presents valuable comparative data and methodological insights, i...

∗ Comprehensive and original re-examination of democratic thought and the subject of direct democracy - the direct involvement of citizens in politics. ∗ Unlike most previous discussions on the subject, author argues that direct democracy is now feasible for a mass society in light of new developments in communication.

A comparative assessment of the impact of election pledges on government action.

Combining individual studies of each country with comparative analyses on a scale never previously undertaken, the book will interest country specialists and comparativists and prove indispensable to research on voting and party behaviour, coalition formation, ideology, and rational choice.