The Vulnerability Thesis: Interest Group Influence and Institutional Design

English

ISBN: 2370004400

EAN: 2370004400891

Category: Social Science / Sociology / General/Political Science / History & Theory/

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release Date: 06/19/2012

Synopsis:

Where politics is dominated by two large parties, as in the United States, politicians should be relatively immune to the influence of small groups. Yet narrow interest groups often win private benefits against majority preferences and at great public expense. Why? The “vulnerability thesis” is that the electoral system is largely to blame, making politicians in two-party systems more vulnerable to interest group demands than politicians in multiparty systems. Political scientist Lorelei Moosbrugger ranks democracies on a continuum of political vulnerability and tests the thesis by examining agrochemical policy in Austria, Britain, Germany, Sweden, and the European Union.

The Vulnerability Thesis: Interest Group Influence and Institutional Design

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - EPUB

Pages: 208