Mapping Policy Preferences by Ian Budge
This book uniquely enriches and empowers its readers. It enriches them by giving them the most detailed and extensive data available on the policies and preferences of key democratic actors - parties, governments, and electors in 25 democracies over the post-war period. Estimates are provided for every election and most coalitions of the post-war period and derive from the programmes, manifestos, and platforms of parties and governments themselves. Thus they form a uniquely authoritative source, recognized as such and provided through the labour of a team of international scholars over 25 years.The book empowers readers by providing these estimates on the CD ROM contained in it. The printed text provides documentation and suggested uses for data, along with much other background information.The changing ideologies and concerns of parties trace general social developments over the post-war period, as well as directly affecting economic policy making. Indispensable for any serious discussion of democratic politics, the book provides necessary information for political scientists, policy analysts, comparativists, sociologists, and economists. A must for every social science library - private as well as academic or public.This attractive package, available for the first time in a combined book and CD-ROM format, compiles a lifetime of intellectual work by the primary author and offers a rich mine of information for scholars interested in comparative democratic performance * Political Studies *
Ian Budge is a research profesor in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. He has made major contributions both to cumulative research on democracy and to organizational developments in the discipline.?His earliest research on Glasgow and Belfast focused on causes of democratic breakdown.?After a period of studying elections, voting behavior, and party competition, he turned to public policy and how it might become responsive to popular preferences--a central democratic dilemma.?His research covers both direct and representative democracy.Sir Ivor Crewe is the master of University College, Oxford. He is a former vice-chancellor of the University of Essex and president of Universities UK. His work concerns British politics, especially elections, parties, and public opinion. He directed the British Election Study from 1973 to 1981 and has edited the British Journal of Political Science. Dennis J. Farlie is a mathematical statistician who has served a director of the ESRC Social Science Data Archive at the University of Essex and chairman of its Department of Mathematics. He has collaborated with Ian Budge on several applications of Bayesian statistics to political science data, covering voting, election predictions, and political careers.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199244003 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199244006 |
| Title | Mapping Policy Preferences |
| Author | Ian Budge |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2001-08-02 |
| Number of pages | 292 |
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