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This volume examines the question of whether election campaigns are relevant to policymaking, shedding new light through a study of electoral priorities and the extent to which they are reclected in public policy.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Are Mandates Obsolete?
- 2: Snakes in Tunnels? Parties, Mandates, and Agendas
- 3: Cases and Methods
- 4: Policy Change Beyond Party Mandate
- 5: Issue Competition Within a Tunnel
- 6: Mandate Matters: Evaluating the Effects of Electoral Mandates in Western Europe
- 7: Capacity, Incentives, and Party Government
- 8: Conclusions
About the author
Emiliano Grossman is Associate Professor of Politics at Sciences Po, working at the Centre d'études européennes et de politiques comparée (CEE). He is the Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Political Research. He works on agenda-setting processes, political institutions, party competition, and comparative public policy.
Isabelle Guinaudeau is an associate CNRS researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim ? Sciences Po Bordeaux and, thanks to the support of the Humboldt foundation, a Visiting scholar at the Institute of Social Science of the University of Stuttgart. Her research is at the juncture between comparative politics and public policy. She works on party competition in the electoral and policymaking arenas, electoral pledges, as well as on European integration and its politicization.
Summary
This volume examines the question of whether election campaigns are relevant to policymaking, shedding new light through a study of electoral priorities and the extent to which they are reclected in public policy.
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