Elections and democracy : representation and accountability /

This volume addresses the contrast between the view that elections are a mechanism to hold government accountable and the view that they are a means to ensure that citizens' views and interests are properly represented in the democratic process. The general conclusion of the book is that formal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Thomassen, J. J. A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Comparative study of electoral systems.
Temas:
Elections.
Democracy.
Representative government and representation.
Responsibility.
Élections.
Gouvernement représentatif.
Responsabilité.
elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
Democracy
Elections
Representative government and representation
Responsibility
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Representation and accountability / Jacques Thomassen
  • New patterns of democracy in the countries of the comparative study of electoral systems 2 / Julian Bernauer, Nathalie Giger, and Adrian Vatter
  • Meaningful choices : does parties' supply matter? / Bernhard Wessels and Hermann Schmitt
  • Policy-based voting and the type of democracy / Biana Burlacu and Gábor Tóka
  • Political institutions and the social anchoring of the vote / Pedro C. Magalhães
  • Political institutions, perceptions of representation, and the turnout decision / André Blais, Shane Singh, and Delia Dumitrescu
  • Democratic structures and democratic participation : the limits of consensualism theory / Steven Weldon and Russell Dalton
  • Feeling policy represented / Sören Holmberg
  • Output-oriented legitimacy : individual- and system-level influences on democracy satisfaction / David Sanders, Harold Clarke, Marianne Stewart, and Paul Whiteley
  • The muliple bases of democratic support : procedural representation and government outputs / Mark Peffley and Robert Rohrschneider
  • Globalization, representation, and attitudes towards democracy / Kees Aarts, Jacques Thomassen, and Carolien van Ham
  • Consenting to lose or expecting to win? : inter-temporal changes in voters' winner-loser status and satisfaction with democracy / Eric Chang, Yun-han Chu, and Wen-chin Wu.

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