Mapping Policy Preferences: Estimates for Parties, Electors, and Governments 1945-1998 (Paperback)

Professor of Government Ian Budge; Director of the Research Unit Institutions and Social Change Hans-Dieter Klingemann; Research Fellow Andrea Volkens
Oxford University Press (UK)
 9780199244003
0-19-924400-6

Enriching and empowering its readers, this work gives the most detailed and extensive data available on the policies and preferences of key democratic actors: parties, governments, and electors in twenty-five.

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democracies over the whole post-war period. It provides a helpful CD-ROM, documentation and suggested uses for data, as well as extensive background information. Economists, socialists, and historians will find the book highly useful; political scientists, policy analysts, rational choice theorists, and comparativists will find it a must.