5. Winning and Losing Elections

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

British Politics Pub Date : 2021-12-21 DOI:10.1093/hepl/9780198840626.003.0005

P. John

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Abstract

This chapter assesses what politicians and members of political parties really care about: getting into office on the back of a successful election campaign. Rather than the general determinants of voting outlined in the previous chapter, this is about the choices voters and parties face within a particular system, so they can organize themselves to win. For that they need to play by the rules of the game, which includes developing strategies within electoral systems. The chapter then discusses the impact of electoral systems on that calculus, and how the number of parties is affected by the electoral system in place. It also looks at the factors that assist the winning of elections, and the extent to which the choices of parties and voters are affected by growing instability in the system. Overall, the chapter provides an overview of British political parties and party systems.

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5. 赢得和失败的选举

本章评估了政治家和政党成员真正关心的是什么：在成功的竞选活动中上台。与上一章中概述的投票的一般决定因素不同，这是关于选民和政党在特定系统中面临的选择，以便他们能够组织自己获胜。为此，他们需要遵守游戏规则，其中包括在选举制度内制定战略。然后，本章讨论了选举制度对这一计算的影响，以及现有选举制度如何影响政党数量。它还考察了有助于赢得选举的因素，以及政党和选民的选择在多大程度上受到体制日益不稳定的影响。总的来说，本章概述了英国的政党和政党制度。

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British Politics POLITICAL SCIENCE-

CiteScore

2.40

自引率

9.10%

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期刊介绍： British Politics offers the only forum explicitly designed to promote research in British political studies, and seeks to provide a counterweight to the growing fragmentation of this field during recent years. To this end, the journal aims to promote a more holistic understanding of British politics by encouraging a closer integration between theoretical and empirical research, between historical and contemporary analyses, and by fostering a conception of British politics as a broad and multi-disciplinary field of study. This incorporates a range of sub-fields, including psephology, policy analysis, regional studies, comparative politics, institutional analysis, political theory, political economy, historical analysis, cultural studies and social policy. While recognising the validity and the importance of research into specific aspects of British politics, the journal takes it to be a guiding principle that such research is more useful, and indeed meaningful, if it is related to the field of British politics in a broader and fuller sense. The scope of the journal will therefore be broad, incorporating a range of research papers and review articles from all theoretical perspectives, and on all aspects of British politics, including policy developments, institutional change and political behaviour. Priority will, however, be given to contributions which link contemporary developments in British politics to theoretical and/or historical analyses. The aim is as much to encourage the development of empirical research that is theoretically rigorous and informed, as it is to encourage the empirical application of theoretical work (or at least to encourage theorists to explicitly signify how their work could be applied in an empirical manner).