Voting for Policy, Not Parties: How Voters Compensate for Power Sharing

by Orit Kedar

Book Overview

This book proposes an institutionally embedded framework for analyzing voter choice. Voters, Orit Kedar argues, are concerned with policy, and therefore their vote reflects the path set by political institutions leading from votes to policy. Under this framework, the more institutional mechanisms facilitating post-electoral compromise are built into the political process (e.g., multi-party government), the more voters compensate for the dilution of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110761791X
• ISBN13: 9781107617919
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"