Search

Your search keyword '"Budge, Ian"' showing total 1 results
Start Over Author "Budge, Ian" Publisher american political science association
1 results on '"Budge, Ian"'

1. From Popular Majorities to Policy: Making a Connection without Conceptual Shortcuts.

Author

McDonald, Michael D. and Budge, Ian

Subjects
*REPRESENTATIVE government, *POLITICAL science, *DEMOCRACY, *POLITICAL systems, *ELECTIONS, *POLITICAL parties
Abstract

We confront two obstacles that have been blocking passageways to understanding democratic representation. One is ambiguity in trying to read popular majority policy positions from elections. The other is identifying representative acts of governance as voice rather than policy. Our arguments and analysis show that when the two are addressed simultaneously we gain important insights into how democracies govern from the middle, near a position of a supposed median voter, while responding to non-centrist tendencies of a plurality-vote winning party. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2007

Catalog

Books, media, physical & digital resources
See catalog results