TY - BOOK AU - Keman,Hans ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Comparative democratic politics: a guide to contemporary theory and research AV - JC423 .C66 2002eb U1 - 321.8 21 PY - 2002/// CY - London, Thousand oaks PB - SAGE KW - Democracy KW - Comparative government KW - Representative government and representation KW - Gouvernement représentatif KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-319) and index; Pt. 1. The; comparative approach to democracy --; Comparative approach to democracy; Hans Keman --; Development of the study of comparative politics; Hans Daalder --; Comparing democracies: theories and evidence; Hans Keman --; Pt. 2. Parties and government in democracies --; Comparative government and democracy; Ian Budge, Richard Hofferbert, Hans Keman, Michael McDonald, Paul Pennings --; Voters, elections and ideology in European democracies; Paul Pennings --; In the aggregate: mass electoral behaviour in Western Europe, 1950-2000; Peter Mair --; Pt. 3. Democratic institutions and political action --; Interest intermediation: the cases of consociational democracy and corporatism; Klaus Armingeon --; Impact of political parties, constitutional structures and veto players on public policy; Manfred G. Schmidt --; Comparative politics and the welfare state; Kees van Kersbergen and Uwe Becker --; Pt. 4. The political performance of democracies --; Policy performance in the democratic state: an emergent field of study; Francis G. Castles --; Democratic performance: are there institutional effects?; Jan-Erik Lane and Svante Ersson --; Democratic institutions, governance and political performance; Hans Keman with the collaboration of Malika Aït Mallouk; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10080935 ER -