Partisan Policy-Making in Western Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-14

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2. Introduction

   • Sebastian Hartmann

   Pages 15-28

3. Party Ideology

   • Sebastian Hartmann

   Pages 29-44

4. Theories for Studying Policy Outputs

   • Sebastian Hartmann

   Pages 45-87

5. Partisan Policy-Making in Coalitions & Minority Governments

   • Sebastian Hartmann

   Pages 89-114

6. Data & Methods

   • Sebastian Hartmann

   Pages 115-166

7. Descriptive Analysis

   • Sebastian Hartmann

   Pages 167-227

8. Multivariate Analysis

   • Sebastian Hartmann

   Pages 229-291

9. Concluding Remarks

   • Sebastian Hartmann

   Pages 293-314

10. Back Matter

    Pages 315-367

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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.

• Coalitions
• Economic Policy
• Parties
• Representative Democracy
• Social Policy

• Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

  Sebastian Hartmann

Sebastian Hartmann studied social sciences in Mannheim and Tartu (Estonia) and holds a doctorate in political science.

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