Party competition and responsible party government : a theory of spatial competition based upon insights from behavioral voting research /

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Author / Creator:Adams, James, 1962-
Imprint:Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2001.
Description:xiv, 233 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4549087
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ISBN:0472112015 (cloth : alk. paper)
0472087673
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-228) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Party Competition under the Basic Partisan Spatial Model
  • 1. Political Representation and Responsible Party Government
  • 2. Policy Stability, Policy Divergence, and the Pressure for Responsible Parties in a Three-Party System: The Case of Britain
  • 3. Party Policy Trajectories in the Absence of Long-Term Equilibrium: Temporal Aspects of Party Competition in Three-Party Elections
  • 4. Party Competition in Postwar France under the Partisan Vote Model
  • Pt. II. Extensions of the Basic Partisan Vote Model
  • 5. Party Competition in Postwar France, Part II: Party Policies since the Mid-1980s
  • 6. Extensions to Probabilistic Voting
  • 7. Extensions to Two-Party Competition in American Elections: A Sketch of a Partisan Spatial Model with Variable Voter Turnout
  • 8. Directions for Future Research. App. A. Description of the Simulation Procedures
  • App. B. On Using Election Surveys to Analyze Parties' Cross-Time Policy Trajectories
  • App. C. Party Policy Strategies and Equilibrium Results for a Generalized Multivariate Probabilistic Voting Model
  • App. D. Proof of Theorem 7.1.