Retrospective Pledge Voting and Political Accountability The Costs of Broken Promises
This book examines retrospective pledge voting; the phenomenon of whether and under which conditions citizens are likely to withdraw their support for political parties that have failed to turn their pre-election pledges into tangible policies once they have joined government. It puts forward a new...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Election pledges, democratic representation and voting
- 2. How pledge performance affects voting
- 3. A threefold empirical investigation of RPV
- 4. RPV at the aggregate level: Evidence from observational data
- 5. RPV at the group level: Evidence from survey data
- 6. RPV at the micro level: Evidence from experimental data
- 7. New evidence on RPV
- 8. A good or bad sign for democracy?