1st Edition
Democratic Politics and Party Competition
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.
