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The partisan politics of law and order /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wenzelburger, Georg (Author)
Corporate Author: UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newyork : Oxford University Publication, [2020]
Series:Studies in crime and public policy.
Subjects:
Democracy.
Law > Political aspects > Case studies.
Political parties > Case studies.
Pressure groups > Case studies.
Public policy (Law) > Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Series
  • The Partisan Politics of Law and Order
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 The Three Main Arguments in Brief
  • 1.2 Research Design, Methods, and Data
  • 1.3 Putting the Partisan Politics of Law and Order in Context
  • 1.3.1 General Pressures: Crime, Unemployment, Globalization, and the Public Mood
  • 1.3.2 Proximate Context and the Impact of Institutions
  • 1.3.3 Political Actors and Party Politics
  • 1.3.4 Policy Feedback
  • 1.3.5 Putting the Existing Literature in Causal Order: A Conceptual Framework for the Explanation of Law and Order Policies
  • 1.4 Outline of the Book and Chapter Preview
  • 2 A Theoretical Framework of the Partisan Politics of Law and Order
  • 2.1 Setting the Law and Order Agenda: Party Politics and Issue Competition
  • 2.1.1 More Valence Than Positional: The Issue of Law and Order
  • 2.1.2 Salience and Issue Competition
  • 2.1.3 Party System Configurations and Issue Competition on Law and Order
  • 2.1.4 Expectations on Party Behavior
  • 2.2 From Issue Competition to Outputs: How Government Participation and Institutional Constraints Affect Policies
  • 2.3 Law and Order and Policy Feedback
  • 2.4 Summary and Discussion of Hypotheses and the Theoretical Model
  • 3 Patterns of Law and Order Policies in 20 Western Industrialized Countries: A Quantitative Analysis
  • 3.1 Setting the Agenda: Issue Competition on Law and Order
  • 3.1.1 Variables and Methods
  • 3.1.2 Empirical Patterns of Issue Competition on Law and Order
  • 3.2 From Agenda to Policies I: Patterns of Law and Order Spending
  • 3.2.1 Variables and Methods
  • 3.2.2 Empirical Patterns of Law and Order Spending
  • 3.3 From Agenda to Policies II: Patterns of Law and Order Legislation in Four Western European Countries
  • 3.3.1 Variables and Methods
  • 3.3.2 Empirical Patterns of Law and Order Legislation
  • 3.4 Summary: Findings of the Quantitative Analyses
  • 4 Law and Order Policies and Third Way Social Democrats
  • 4.1 Law and Order Policies in Germany and Britain: A Brief Overview of Development Since the 1990s
  • 4.1.1 Law and Order Policies in Germany, 1994-​2017
  • 4.1.2 Law and Order Policies in Britain, 1992-​2015
  • 4.2 Why So Different? Analyzing the Puzzling Policy Profile of Two Third Way Governments
  • 4.2.1 Agenda-​Setting Dynamics in Germany and Britain
  • 4.2.2 Decision-​Making on Law and Order in Britain and Germany
  • 4.3 Summary of the Results
  • 5 Law and Order Policies and Conservative Parties
  • 5.1 Law and Order Policies in France and Sweden: A Brief Overview of Development from the 1990s Onward
  • 5.1.1 Law and Order Policies in France, 1997-​2014
  • 5.1.2 Law and Order Policies in Sweden, 1992-​2014
  • 5.2 Why So Different? Analyzing the Puzzling Policy Profile of Two Conservative Governments