Research Catalog

Title

Partisan policy-making in Western Europe : how ideology influences the content of government policies / Sebastian Hartmann.

Author

Hartmann, Sebastian

Publication

Wiesbaden : Springer VS, 2015.

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Details

Description

367 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

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.  Contents 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  Target Groups Researchers and students in the fields of comparative politics, party politics, coalitional politics, and political economy  The Author Sebastian Hartmann studied social sciences in Mannheim and Tartu (Estonia) and holds a doctorate in political science.

Series Statement

Springer VS research

Uniform Title

Research (Wiesbaden, Germany)

Subject

• Politischer Konjunkturzyklus
• Ideologie
• Parteipolitik
• Sozialpolitik
• Wirtschaftspolitik
• Politics, Practical > Government policy > Europe, Western
• Ideology > Political aspects > Europe, Western
• Political science
• Political science
• Economics
• Comparative government
• Westeuropa

Genre/Form

• dissertations.
• theses.
• masters theses.
• doctoral dissertations.
• Academic theses
• Thèses et écrits académiques.

Thesis (note)

• Thesis (doctoral) - University, Mannheim, 2014.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9783658081966 (pbk.)
• 3658081961 (pbk.)
• 9783658081973 (online) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

9783658081966

OCLC

• 903890988
• SCSB-11057866

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library