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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
  2. Empirical studies in comparative politics

    • Melvin J. Hinich, Michael C. Munger
    Pages 1-9
  3. Multiparty electoral competition in the Netherlands and Germany: A model based on multinomial probit

    • Normal Schofield, Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn, Andrew B. Whitford
    Pages 39-75
  4. Issue competition in the 1993 Norwegian national election

    • Stuart Elaine Macdonald, George Rabinowitz, Ola Listhaug
    Pages 77-104
  5. The dynamics of interest group evaluations of Congress

    • Keith T. Poole, Howard Rosenthal
    Pages 105-143
  6. Ideology and the construction of nationality: The Canadian elections of 1993

    • Melvin J. Hinich, Michael C. Munger, Scott De Marchi
    Pages 183-210
  7. The “revival of communism” or the effect of institutions?: The 1993 Polish parliamentary elections

    • Marek M. Kaminski, Grzegorz Lissowski, Piotr Swistak
    Pages 211-231
  8. Empirical evidence of paradoxes of voting in Dutch elections

    • Ad M. A. Van Deemen, Noël P. Vergunst
    Pages 257-272
  9. The spatial character of Russia’s new democracy

    • Misha Myagkov, Peter C. Ordeshook
    Pages 273-305

About this book

Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics presents a collection of papers analyzing the political systems of ten nations. It intends to provoke a conscious effort to compare, and investigate, the public choice of comparative politics.
There have been many publications by public choice scholars, and many more by researchers who are at least sympathetic to the public choice perspective, yet little of this work has been integrated into the main stream of comparative political science literature. This work, however, presents an empirically oriented study of the politics, bureaucratic organization, and regulated economies of particular nations in the canon of the comparativist. It therefore provides a public choice view at the level of nations, not of systems.
This compendium of work on comparative politics meets two criteria:
  • In every case, a model of human behavior or institutional impact is specified;
  • Also in every case, this model is confronted with data appropriate for evaluating whether this model is useful for understanding politics in one or more nations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Texas-Austin, USA

    Melvin J. Hinich

  • Duke University, USA

    Michael C. Munger

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics

  • Editors: Melvin J. Hinich, Michael C. Munger

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5127-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8410-6Published: 31 January 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5072-7Published: 03 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-5127-7Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 306

  • Topics: Comparative Politics, Economics, general, Political Science, Public Economics, Economic Policy

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