POLICY, OFFICE, OR VOTES?

POLICY, OFFICE,

OR VOTES?

How Political Parties in Western

Europe Make Hard Decisions

Edited by

W O L F G A N G C . M U? L L E R

KAARE STR?M

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Policy, office, or votes? : how political parties in Western Europe

make hard decisions / [edited by] Wolfgang C. Mu?ller, Kaare Str?m ;

[contributors, Torbjo?rn Bergman . . . et al.].

p. cm. �C (Cambridge studies in comparative politics)

Includes index.

ISBN 0-521-63135-1 (hardbound) ISBN 0-521-63723-6 (pbk)

1. Political parties �C Europe, Western. I. Mu?ller, Wolfgang C., 1957�C .

II. Str?m, Kaare. III. Bergman, Torbjo?rn.

IV. Series.

JN94.A979P62 1999

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ISBN 0 521 63135 1 hardback

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CONTENTS

Figures

Tables

Contributors

Chapter 1

page ix

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xii

Political Parties and Hard Choices

1

Kaare Str?m and Wolfgang C. Mu?ller

Chapter 2

Office, Votes, and Then Policy: Hard Choices

for Political Parties in the Republic of Ireland,

1981�C1992

36

Michael Marsh and Paul Mitchell

Chapter 3

Party Behaviour and the Formation of Minority

Coalition Governments: Danish Experiences from

the 1970s and 1980s

63

J?rgen Elklit

Chapter 4

From Policy-Seeking to Office-Seeking: The

Metamorphosis of the Spanish Socialist Workers

Party

89

Donald Share

vii

viii

Chapter 5

CONTENTS

Changing Strategies: The Dilemma of the Dutch

Labour Party

112

Ron Hillebrand and Galen A. Irwin

Chapter 6

Party Behavior in a Polarized System: The Italian

Communist Party and the Historic Compromise

141

Roberto D��Alimonte

Chapter 7

Decision for Opposition: The Austrian Socialist

Party��s Abandonment of Government Participation

in 1966

172

Wolfgang C. Mu?ller

Chapter 8

Leadership Accountability and Bargaining Failure

in Norway: The Presthus Debacle

192

Kaare Str?m

Chapter 9

Winner Takes All: The FDP in 1982�C1983:

Maximizing Votes, Office, and Policy?

216

Thomas Poguntke

Chapter 10

Trade-offs in Swedish Constitutional Design: The

Monarchy under Challenge

237

Torbjo?rn Bergman

Chapter 11

Parliamentary Rules and Party Behavior during

Minority Government in France

258

John D. Huber

Chapter 12

Conclusions: Party Behavior and Representative

Democracy

279

Wolfgang C. Mu?ller and Kaare Str?m

Index

311

FIGURES

1.1 Range of feasible party behavior

1.2 The institutional framework of interparty competition in

parliamentary democracies

6.1 PCI/PDS electoral trend (Chamber of Deputies), 1946�C96

6.2 PCI/PDS membership trend, 1953�C93

6.3 A simplified representation of the Italian political space

in the 1970s

7.1 The SPO? party structure in 1966

8.1 Extensive-form representation of the Presthus debacle end game

9.1 FDP membership in Land governments, 1960�C90

9.2 Voting intention: FDP, 1981�C3

9.3 Germany: voting intention, 1981�C3

9.4 Evaluation of the FDP, 1981�C3

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