Organizing Democratic Choice: Party Representation Over Time by Ian Budge (Engli

by Ian Budge

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Organizing Democratic Choice by Ian Budge, Hans Keman, Michael McDonald, Paul Pennings Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Organizing Democratic Choice offers a new, invigorating theory of how democracy actually works. It also presents a challenge to democratic pessimists who would have everyone believe that neither political parties nor mass publics are up to the tasks that democracy assigns them. Publisher Description This bold venture into democratic theory offers a new and reinvigorating thesis for how democracy delivers on its promise of public control over public policy. In theory, popular control could be achieved through a process entirely driven by supply-side politics, with omniscient and strategic political parties converging on the median voter s policy preference at every turn. However, this would imply that there would be no distinguishable political parties (oreven any reason for parties to exist) and no choice for a public to make. The more realistic view taken here portrays democracy as an ongoing series of give and take between political parties policysupply and a mass public s policy demand. Political parties organize democratic choices as divergent policy alternatives, none of which is likely to satisfy the public s policy preferences at any one turn. While the one-off, short-run consequence of a single election often results in differences between the policies that parliaments and governments pursue and t

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2012
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780199654932
• Condition: Fine

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