Election promises, party behaviour and voter perceptions /
An exploration of whether politicians are perceived to keep their election promises. While scholars claim that parties act on most of their election promises, citizens hold the opposite view. This 'Pledge Puzzle' guides Naurin in her analysis of the often referred to but not empirically in...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- The pledge puzzle
- Election promises in representative democratic theory
- Definitions of election promises in empirical research
- Do parties fulfil their election promises?
- How widespread is the image of the promise-breaking politician?
- Just general distrust?
- Citizens' definitions of fulfilled election promises
- Promising democracy.