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MANFRED G. SCHMIDT

When parties matter: A review of the possibilities and limits of partisan influence on public policy. MANFRED G. SCHMIDT GOVERNMENT RESPONSIVENESS AND POLITICAL COMPETITION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE SARA BINZER HOBOLD and ROBERT KLEMMENSEN TEVFIK MURAT YILDIRIM.

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MANFRED G. SCHMIDT

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  1. When parties matter: A review of the possibilities and limits ofpartisaninfluence on publicpolicy • MANFRED G. SCHMIDT GOVERNMENT RESPONSIVENESS AND POLITICAL COMPETITION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE • SARA BINZER HOBOLD and ROBERT KLEMMENSEN • TEVFIK MURAT YILDIRIM

  2. Quicksummary of Arguments • ResearchDesign • Operationalization & Evidences • The Critique

  3. PoliticalContestation PolicyResponsiveness • PartyComposition of Government  PublicPolicy

  4. The possibilities and limits of partisaninfluence on publicpolicy in democraticcountries • “The hypothesis of partisan influences is an important analytical instrument for a better understanding of public policy”

  5. ‘Parties-do-matter’ view as an empiricaltheory • (1) Historio-graphicapproach (2) The left-righthypothesis (3) The concept of the majorparty of the right (4) The right-centre-lefttrichotomy

  6. An insignificantcorrelationmeans: the choice of a particularindicator of the partycomposition of government can make a verylargedifferencetoestimates of partisaninfluence on publicpolicy. • “none of the critics has so farempirically and theoretically convincingly demonstrated that the hypothesisof partisan influence is invalid”

  7. Somebasicresults • Leftistparties Unemployment, socialprotection • Rightparties  Inflation • Morefederalism  Lessspacetomanouvre

  8. political contestation is the primarymechanismdrivingpolicyresponsiveness • Time seriesanalysiswithrhetoricalresponsiveness and effectiveresponsiveness • Threecountries: USA, UK and Denmark

  9. Measuringpublicopinionwithsurveyquestions • Measuringgovernmentpolicypromises (speeches) • And modelingresponsiveness • St = α + β1Pt – 1 + β2Zt + β3Wt + β4Wt*Pt – 1 + ε,

  10. Results • “This article has argued that political contestation is a key mechanismthat encourages governments to respond to the electorate’s wishes” • Rhetoricalresponsiveness is highest in the Danishsystem

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