Partisan Politics of Law and Order

Why have some Western democracies turned toward tougher law and order policies whereas others have not? Based on quantitative analyses and case studies of four countries, The Partisan Politics of Law and Order demonstrates that the configuration of party systems and institutional context play a key role in the development of law and order policies.

List of contents

• Preface


• Chapter One: Introduction to the partisan politics of law and order


• Chapter Two: A theoretical framework of the partisan politics of law and order


• Chapter Three: Patterns of law and order policies in 20 Western industrialized


• countries: A quantitative analysis


• Chapter Four: Law and order policies and 'Third Way' Social Democrats


• Chapter Five: Law and order policies and conservative parties


• Chapter Six: Law and order and the risk of policy overreaction


• Chapter Seven: The partisan politics of law and order


• Appendix

About the author

Georg Wenzelburger is Professor for Policy Analysis and Political Economy at the University of Kaiserslautern. He is co-author of Reforming the Welfare State (2020), a large number of articles in peer-reviewed journal articles and multiple books in German.

Summary

Why have some Western democracies turned toward tougher law and order policies whereas others have not? Based on quantitative analyses and case studies of four countries, The Partisan Politics of Law and Order demonstrates that the configuration of party systems and institutional context play a key role in the development of law and order policies.

Product details

• Authors: Georg Wenzelburger, Georg (Professor of Political Scienc Wenzelburger
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.07.2020
• EAN: 9780190920487
• ISBN: 978-0-19-092048-7
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, Political structures: democracy, Comparative Politics, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Political structures / systems: democracy