Policy, Office, Or Votes?: How Political Parties in Western Europe Make Hard DecisionsWolfgang C. Müller, Kaare Strøm, Robert H. Bates, Peter Lange Leaders of political parties often have to choose between conflicting objectives, such as influence on policy, control of the government, and support among the voters. This book examines the behavior of political parties in situations where they experience conflict between two or more important objectives. The volume contains a theoretical introduction and case studies of party leaders in Germany, Italy, France and Spain as well as six smaller European democracies. Each case focuses on the behavior of one of several parties in situations of goal conflict, such as the "historic compromise" in Italy, the 1982 Wende in West Germany, the making of the new Swedish constitution in the 1970s, and the termination of the Austrian "black-red" grand coalition. |
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Contents
Political Parties and Hard Choices | 1 |
Office Votes and Then Policy Hard Choices for Political Parties in the Republic of Ireland 19811992 | 36 |
Party Behaviour and the Formation of Minority Coalition Governments Danish Experiences from the 1970s and 1980s | 63 |
From PolicySeeking to OfficeSeeking The Metamorphosis of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party | 89 |
Changing Strategies The Dilemma of the Dutch Labour Party | 112 |
Party Behavior in a Polarized System The Italian Communist Party and the Historic Compromise | 141 |
Decision for Opposition The Austrian Socialist Partys Abandonment of Government Participation in 1966 | 172 |
Leadership Accountability and Bargaining Failure in Norway The Presthus Debacle | 192 |
Winner Takes All The FDP in 19821983 Maximizing Votes Office and Policy? | 216 |
Tradeoffs in Swedish Constitutional Design The Monarchy under Challenge | 237 |
Parliamentary Rules and Party Behavior during Minority Government in France | 258 |
Conclusions Party Behavior and Representative Democracy | 279 |
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| Title | Policy, Office, Or Votes?: How Political Parties in Western Europe Make Hard Decisions Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Policy, Office, Or Votes?: How Political Parties in Western Europe Make Hard Decisions, Wolfgang C. Müller |
| Editors | Wolfgang C. Müller, Kaare Strøm, Robert H. Bates, Peter Lange |
| Contributors | Torbjörn Bergman, Ellen Comisso, Joel Migdal, Helen Milner |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0521637236, 9780521637237 |
| Length | 319 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / General Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy Political Science / Political Process / Political Parties |
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