Elections, Parties, Democracy: Conferring the Median Mandate (Comparative Politics)

by IanBudge (Author), Michael D . Mc Donald (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $204.51

  How does representative democracy work in the modern age? Examining 21 post-war democracies, this strikingly innovative approach by two world-class scholars demonstrates how the voter in the middle - the median elector - empowers the centre party in parliament to translate political preferences into public policy.