Ideology, Strategy and Party Change Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Preface
- 1 The influence of election programmes: Britain and Canada 1945–1979.
- 2 The internal analysis of election programmes.
- 3 Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the United States 1946–1981, an initial comparative analysis.
- 4 Canada 1945–1980: party platforms and campaign strategies.
- 5 Sri Lanka 1947–1977: elite programmes and mass politics.
- 6 Israel 1949–1981.
- 7 Ireland 1948–1981: issues, parties, strategies.
- 8 Northern Ireland 1921–1973: party manifestos and platforms.
- 9 Sweden and Denmark 1945–1982: election programmes in the Scandinavian setting.
- 10 The Netherlands 1946–1981.
- 11 Belgium 1946–1981.
- 12 Luxembourg 1945–1982: dimensions and strategies.
- 13 Austria 1945–1978.
- 14 Electoral programmes in West Germany 1949–1980: explorations in the nature of political controversy.
- 15 France 1958–1981: the strategy of joint government platforms.
- 16 Italy 1946–1979: ideological distances and party movements.
- 17 Japan 1960–1980: party programmes in elections.
- 18 Do parties differ, and how? Comparative discriminant and factor analyses.
- Appendices
- General bibliography
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Preface
- 1 The influence of election programmes: Britain and Canada 1945–1979.
- 2 The internal analysis of election programmes.
- 3 Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the United States 1946–1981, an initial comparative analysis.
- 4 Canada 1945–1980: party platforms and campaign strategies.
- 5 Sri Lanka 1947–1977: elite programmes and mass politics.
- 6 Israel 1949–1981.
- 7 Ireland 1948–1981: issues, parties, strategies.
- 8 Northern Ireland 1921–1973: party manifestos and platforms.
- 9 Sweden and Denmark 1945–1982: election programmes in the Scandinavian setting.
- 10 The Netherlands 1946–1981.
- 11 Belgium 1946–1981.
- 12 Luxembourg 1945–1982: dimensions and strategies.
- 13 Austria 1945–1978.
- 14 Electoral programmes in West Germany 1949–1980: explorations in the nature of political controversy.
- 15 France 1958–1981: the strategy of joint government platforms.
- 16 Italy 1946–1979: ideological distances and party movements.
- 17 Japan 1960–1980: party programmes in elections.
- 18 Do parties differ, and how? Comparative discriminant and factor analyses.
- Appendices
- General bibliography
- Index
Summary
Since we were constituted as a research group of the European Consortium for Political Research, and participated in its second Joint Research Sessions in the autumn of 1979, we have amassed many debts to individuals and institutions. It is hard for any cross-national group to keep together, even in receipt of unified and generous foundation funding. Cross-European research does not receive that kind of support, but what we have lacked in the way of funds has been balanced by the prompt aid given to us from a variety of sources.
The Consortium is responsible both for the creation of the group and for its continuing existence. Its support is part of a long term strategy for the encouragement of inter-European research, which has covered the work of groups like ours, and is still expanding. But nobody could have been more personally concerned to make our group a success than the successive Chairmen of its Research Board, Jean Blondel and Ken Newton; and its Chairman Rudolf Wildenmann.
The grant which gave us our initial impetus came (without bureaucratic delays or conditions) under the enlightened Small Grants Scheme of the Nuffield Foundation (Soc/205/125): the sympathetic Administrator was Pat Thomas. Later we received help, like the other ECPR Research Groups, from a general grant from the Tercentenary Fund of the Bank of Sweden, which Professor Leif Lewin, of the University of Uppsala, was particularly instrumental in obtaining for the ECPR programme.
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- Ideology, Strategy and Party ChangeSpatial Analyses of Post-War Election Programmes in 19 Democracies, pp. xv - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1987