Organizing Democratic Choice: Party Representation Over Time

by Michael McDonald, Ian Budge, Paul Pennings

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019965493X
• ISBN13: 9780199654932
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"