17 research outputs found
Die Messung der Parteipositionen auf der Basis von Parteiprogrammen, Medienberichterstattung und Wahrnehmung durch die Whaler
Measurement of Party Positions on the Basis of Party Programmes, Media Coverage and Voter Perceptions
Doing research in political science. An introduction to comparative methods and statistics (second, revised edition)
Doing Research in Political Science. An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics
Doing Research in Political Science. An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics
Die Messung der Parteipositionen auf der Basis von Parteiprogrammen, Medienberichterstattung und Wahrnehmung durch die Whaler
Parties, Voters and Policy Priorities in the Netherlands, 1971-2002
To what extent are the priorities of voters reflected by the policy pledges of parties? And how decisive are party pledges for the policy-making of governments? The chain of delegation assumes direct linkages between voters, parties and governments, of which the voters are the principal actor. When this assumption is tested for The Netherlands, it turns out that parties are not very responsive to voter priorities and that the policy distances between parliamentary parties and governments are relatively small. This pattern makes sense in a consensus democracy in which parties have to compromise and cannot afford simply to reflect what voters perceive as important. It also suggests that the mandate theory is more directly applicable to majoritarian democracies, where the winner takes all and therefore has more scope to translate voter priorities into policy-making