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Controlling governments : = voters, institutions, and accountability /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Controlling governments :/ edited by José María Maravall, Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca.
Reminder of title:	voters, institutions, and accountability /
other author:	Maravall, José María,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 311 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Voting - Case studies. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511611414
ISBN:	9780511611414 (ebook)

Controlling governments : = voters, institutions, and accountability /
Controlling governments :voters, institutions, and accountability /edited by José María Maravall, Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca. - 1 online resource (xi, 311 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in the theory of democracy ;7. - Cambridge studies in the theory of democracy ;8..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Explaining the electoral performance of incumbents in democracies / Belén Barreiro -- How can governments be accountable if voters vote ideologically? / Ignacio Sánchez-cuenca -- Enduring ethnicity : the political survival of incumbent ethnic parties in Western democracies / Sonia Alonso -- Performance or representation? : the determinants of voting in complex political contexts / Paloma Aguilar and Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca -- Political knowledge and the logic of voting : a comparative study / Marta Fraile -- The political consequences of internal party democracy / José María Maravall -- Choosing rules for government : the institutional preferences of early socialist parties / Alberto Penadés -- Constitutions and democratic breakdowns / Alicia Adserà And Carles Boix.

How much influence do citizens have to control the government? What guides voters at election time? Why do governments survive? How do institutions modify the power of the people over politicians? The book combines academic analytical rigor with comparative analysis to identify how much information voters must have to select a politician for office, or for holding a government accountable; whether parties in power can help voters to control their governments; how different institutional arrangements influence voters' control; why politicians choose particular electoral systems; and what economic and social conditions may undermine not only governments, but democracy. Arguments are backed by vast macro and micro empirical evidence. There are cross-country comparisons and survey analyses of many countries. In every case there has been an attempt to integrate analytical arguments and empirical research. The goal is to shed new light on perplexing questions of positive democratic theory.

ISBN: 9780511611414 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

800491
Voting
--Case studies.

LC Class. No.: JF1001 / .C574 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 321.8

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