1st Edition
Democratic Politics and Party Competition
This new book introduces innovative research on democracy from the leading Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP).
It details the key achievements of the project to date, illustrates how its findings may be applied, lays out the future challenges it faces and examines how the field as a whole can advance. It also presents a special assessment of the dimensionality of party competition, presenting ways in which research can be extended and related to broader approaches in Political Science and Theory.
Although CMP research is widely used and constitutes the major comparative data set on party positions and ideological location, it is also subject to challenge. The volume therefore provides the reader with a clear sense of the key debates and questions surrounding its work.
This volume also honours the life-time achievement of Professor Ian Budge, who has provided distinguished intellectual leadership for the CMP over the last twenty-five years.
This is an essential point of reference for all comparative research on the functioning of democracies. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of politics and of democracy in particular.
Acknowledgements
Introduction Judith Bara and Albert Weale – Introduction
Chapter 1 Ken Newton - A Life of Writing and Organising, Walking and Talking
Part I Empirical Developments and Applications
Chapter 2 Hans Keman - Party Government Formation and Policy Preferences: An encompassing approach
Chapter 3 Andrea Volkens - Policy Changes of Parties in European Parliament Party Groups
Chapter 4 Michael D Mcdonald - Parties In Democracy,
Democracy in Parties: Lessons from Ian Budge and the CMP Data
Chapter 5 Judith Bara - Do Parties Reflect Public Concerns?
Part II Methodological Directions and Challenges
Chapter 6 Iain Mclean - The Dimensionality of Party Ideologies
Chapter 7 Jack H. Nagel - Occam No, Archimedes Yes
Chapter 8 David Robertson - On the Dimensionality of Political Space and on its Inhabitants
Chapter 9 Michael Laver - "Party-Defined" Spaces Revisited
Part III Democratic Processes and Values
Chapter 10 John Bartle - Ideological Considerations and Voting Behaviour: A comparison of individual and aggregate level approaches
Chapter 11 Paul Whiteley - Does the Median Voter Theorem Wipe out Political Participation?
Chapter 12 Hugh Ward – Preference Shaping and Party Competition: Some empirical and theoretical arguments
Chapter 13 Albert Weale - Party Competition and Deliberative Democracy
Chapter 14 Donald D. Searing, Ivor Crewe and Pamela Johnston Conover - Political Tolerance: Meaning, measurement and context
Bibliography of The Works of Ian Budge
Biography
Judith Bara is a Lecturer in Politics, at Queen Mary, University of London and a Research Fellow in Government at the University of Essex, UK.
Albert Weale is Professor of Government at the University of Essex, UK. He is also co-Editor of the British Journal of Political Science and Fellow of the British Academy.
