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., 1957C .
II. Str?m, Kaare. III. Bergman, Torbjo?rn.
IV. Series.
JN94.A979P62 1999
324.24 C dc21
98-49530
CIP
ISBN 0 521 63135 1 hardback
ISBN 0 521 63723 6 paperback
CONTENTS
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Chapter 1
page ix
x
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,
1981C1992
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 DAlimonte
Chapter 7
Decision for Opposition: The Austrian Socialist
Partys 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 1982C1983:
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), 1946C96
6.2 PCI/PDS membership trend, 1953C93
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, 1960C90
9.2 Voting intention: FDP, 1981C3
9.3 Germany: voting intention, 1981C3
9.4 Evaluation of the FDP, 1981C3
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