Multi-Level Democracy: Integration and Independence Among Party Syste - Comparative Politics

This book examines the ways in which federal institutions assign fiscal power and policy-making power and how this shapes the long-term development of political competition.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Integrated and independent politics


• 3: Federal institutional design: structuring power in the state


• 4: Party organizational linkage


• 5: Party system linkage: congruence and nationalization


• 6: Voter behaviour


• 7: Institutional configurations and linkage formation


• 8: Conclusion

About the author

Lori Thorlakson is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Alberta. Her research interests include party competition and democratic development in the post-communist member states of the European Union. She has published articles in numerous scholarly journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Party Politics, the Journal of Common Market Studies, and the Journal of European Public Policy.

Summary

This book examines the ways in which federal institutions assign fiscal power and policy-making power and how this shapes the long-term development of political competition.

Product details

• Authors: Lori Thorlakson, Lori (Professor in the Department of Political Science Thorlakson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780198833505
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883350-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 242 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, Political science & theory, Political structure & processes, Comparative Politics, Political science and theory, Political structure and processes, Political parties and party platforms