Democratic politics and party competition : essays in honour of Ian Budge / edited by Judith Bara and Albert Weale.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [312]-313) and index.

"First published in 2006. Transferred to Digital Printing 2010."--T.p. verso of paperback edition.

Ian Budge : a life of writing and organising, walking and talking / Ken Newton -- Party government formation and policy preferences : an encompassing approach? / Hans Keman -- Policy changes of parties in European parliament party groups / Andrea Volkens -- Parties in democracy, democracy in parties : lessons from Ian Budge and the CMP data / Michael D. McDonald -- Do parties reflect public concerns? / Judith Bara -- The dimensionality of party ideologies / Iain McLean -- Occam no, Archimedes yes / Jack H. Nagel -- On the dimensionality of political space and on its inhabitants / David Robertson -- "Party-defined" spaces revisted / Michael Laver -- Ideological considerations and voting behaviour : a comparison of individual and aggregate level approches / John Bartle -- Does the median voter theorem wipe out political participation? / Paul Whiteley -- Preference shaping and party competition : some empirical and theoretical arguments / Hugh Ward -- Party competition and deliberative democracy / Albert Weale -- Political tolerance : meaning, measurement and context / Donald D. Searing, Ivor Crewe and Pamela Johnston Conover.

A life of writing and organising / Ken Newton -- Party government formation and policy preferences : an encompassing approach / Hans Keman -- Policy changes of parties in European parliament party groups / Andrea Volkens -- Parties in democracy, democracy in parties : lessons from Ian Budge and the CMP data / Michael D. McDonald -- Do parties reflect public concerns? / Judith Bara -- The dimensionality of party ideologies / Iain McLean -- Occam no, Archimedes yes / Jack H. Nagel -- On the dimensionality of political space and on its inhabitants / David Robertson -- "Party-defined" spaces revisted / Michael Laven -- Ideological considerations and voting behaviour : a comparison of individual and aggregate level approches / John Bartle -- Does the median voter theorem wipe out political participation? / Paul Whiteley -- Preference shaping and party competition : some empirical and theoretical arguments / Hugh Ward -- Party competition and deliberative democracy / Albert Weale -- Political tolerance : meaning, measurement and context / Donald D. Searing, Ivor Crewe and Pamela Johnston Conover.

This new book introduces innovative research on democracy from the leading Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP). It details the key achievements of the project to date, illustrates how its findings may be applied, lays out the future challenges it faces and examines how the field as a whole can advance. It also presents a special assessment of the dimensionality of party competition, presenting ways in which research can be extended and related to broader approaches in Political Science and Theory. Although CMP research is widely used and constitutes the major comparative data set on party positions and ideological location, it is also subject to challenge. The volume therefore provides the reader with a clear sense of the key debates and questions surrounding its work. This volume also honours the life-time achievement of Professor Ian Budge, who has provided distinguished intellectual leadership for the CMP over the last twenty-five years. This is an essential point of reference for all comparative research on the functioning of democracies. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of politics and of democracy in particular.