Partisan Policy-Making in Western Europe
How Ideology Influences the Content of Government Policies
1st Edition
Published on 18. November 2014
XIV, 353 pages
978-3-658-08197-3 (ISBN)
Description
Sebastian Hartmann aims at answering the question whether socioeconomic policies implemented by governments are generally rather similar or whether their content actually varies with the ideological background of governments. In addition, he wants to find out whether government characteristics such as coalition or minority situations impact the degree of partisan policy-making. The author employs a new dataset of social and economic policies collected for several Western European countries. By conducting a wide range of empirical analyses and by using an innovative approach for analysing the policy output, he shows that ideology indeed matters. However, the degree of its influence is contingent upon structural characteristics of governments.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wiesbaden
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XIV, 353 p. 23 illus.
File size
3,92 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-658-08197-3 (9783658081973)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-658-08197-3
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Sebastian Hartmann
Partisan Policy-Making in Western Europe
How Ideology Influences the Content of Government Policies
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12/2014
Springer VS
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Person
Sebastian Hartmann studied social sciences in Mannheim and Tartu (Estonia) and holds a doctorate in political science.
Content
Party Ideology.- Theory for Studying Policy Outputs.- The Political Business Cycle.- Partisan Policy-Making in Coalitions and Minority Governments.- The Effects of Coalitions on Government Policy Positions.- The Distribution of Left and Right Policy Measures.
