Democratic politics and party competition : essays in honour of Ian Budge / edited by Judith Bara and Albert Weale

Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Physical Description: xxi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators: Bara, Judith and Weale, Albert

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Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ; 47.

Contents

Ian Budge : a life of writing and organising, walking and talking / Ken Newton -- Party government formation and policy preferences : an encompassing approach? / Hans Keman -- Policy changes of parties in European parliament party groups / Andrea Volkens -- Parties in democracy, democracy in parties : lessons from Ian Budge and the CMP data / Michael D. McDonald -- Do parties reflect public concerns? / Judith Bara -- The dimensionality of party ideologies / Iain McLean -- Occam no, Archimedes yes / Jack H. Nagel -- On the dimensionality of political space and on its inhabitants / David Robertson -- "Party-defined" spaces revisited / Michael Laver -- Ideological considerations and voting behaviour : a comparison of individual and aggregate level approches / John Bartle -- Does the median voter theorem wipe out political participation? / Paul Whiteley -- Preference shaping and party competition : some empirical and theoretical arguments / Hugh Ward -- Party competition and deliberative democracy / Albert Weale -- Political tolerance : meaning, measurement and context / Donald D. Searing, Ivor Crewe and Pamela Johnston Conover.

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0415385059 (hbk.)
0203965779 (ebk.)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [312]-313) and index.

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