Controlling Governments : Voters, Institutions, and Accountability (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1. Explaining the electoral performance of incumbents in democracies Belen Barreiro; 2. How can governments be accountable if voters vote ideologically? Ignacio Sanchez-Cuenca; 3. Enduring ethnicity: the political survival of incumbent ethnic parties in western democracies Sonia Alonso; 4. Performance or representation? The determinants of voting in complex political contexts Paloma Aguilar and Ignacio Sanchez-Cuenca; 5. Political knowledge and the logic of voting: a comparative study Marta Fraile; 6. The political consequences of internal party democracy Jose Maria Maravall; 7. Choosing rules for government: the institutional preferences of early Socialist parties Alberto Penades; 8. Constitutions and democratic breakdowns Alicia Adsera and Carles Boix.