Leon D Epstein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 971663 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Leon D Epstein |
| NOMBRES | Leon D |
| APELLIDO | Epstein |
| FIRMA | EPSTEIN L D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 89 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 317 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 89 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1949 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The Programmatic Function
A programmatic party, or what is more commonly called an ideological party, is undoubtedly associated with mass-membership organization. To fulfill the function, a party must have an apparatus capable of generating policies or at least of deciding what policies are consistent with the party’s basic objectives. American advocates of responsible party government, no less than European believers in a socialist party, are thinking in terms of majorit…
Organization
Volunteer activists, grouped by parliamentary constituencies, created the organizational bases for British parties when they began to seek more members after the extension of the suffrage. The party labels alone, even if representing no more than skeletal organizations, may suffice to structure the vote along party lines. The frequent occurrence of mass-membership party organizations is prima facie evidence only that they are or were originally u…
Structuring the Vote
Structuring the vote is the minimum function of a political party in a modern democracy. Vote-structuring, however, is their essential minimum modern function. A party can be said to exist as long as it structures the vote even though it does nothing else. The best way to appreciate how vote-structuring is inherently a function of political parties is to start with American parties. The French-American and the Norwegian-American comparisons might…
Developmental Circumstances
Grouped under the heading of election arrangements are various governmental rules, distinguishable from constitutional structure by their readier alterability. In fact, many election arrangements are so readily altered that their inclusion here among developmental circumstances might well be questioned. A more purely constitutional circumstance for the development of political parties is found in the provisions for the relations of executive and …
Postscript To Transaction Edition
The British Labour party’s electoral fortunes have not dimished with a declining individual membership, and the German Social Democrats have won office only after reductions in their traditionally large and active party membership. The new urgency arises not just from the further weakening of parties, but also from the perceived failure of other political means to meet the needs of American society and particulary the needs of the economically di…
Candidate Selection
The selection of party candidates for elective office is a mechanism through which one kind of political recruitment takes place. Dealing with central-local relations in candidate selection raises a subject different from the breadth of participation as legally or customarily prescribed. The looseness, the individualism, and the interest-group influences characterizing American candidate selection are state as well as national phenomena. Dues-pay…
Leadership Recruitment by Class
The Christian Democratic recruitment of working-class leaders thus tends to strengthen the argument concerning the relation of a class-conscious society to political recruitment. Except for a few famous socialist intellectuals, whose role was not primarily in political organization or candidature, the original Labour party leadership was almost exclusively working-class. Australia and New Zealand have working-class parties whose leadership recrui…
The Governing Function
A closer look at the American national government will help to explain how the system works without legislative parties assuming the governing function of European parliamentary parties. The Christian Democrats remained primarily responsible for governing, and the Socialists for providing the alternative in the form of a coherent opposition party. Intra-party disputes among elected office-holders, as in non-governmental party organizations, presu…
Conclusion
Political scientists are as indebted to Maurice Duverger as historians are to Marx. Duverger stands in relation to theories of party development much as Marx does in relation to broader social theories. A similar point can be made about the American scholars, particularly Schattschneider, who advanced the still popular belief in the virtues of the responsible party—meaning a highly organized, programmatic, and cohesive party. The pluralist’s part…
Counter-Organizational Tendencies
An organizational apparatus intervening between candidates and voters may be less necessary, or at any rate less efficient, as a vote-getting device. The extent to which new mass-media techniques and the mass-membership organization provide alternative campaign means can be observed in party financing. The large numbers have been accounted for by the indirect affiliation of 5–6 million trade unionists through their national organizations, in addi…
Program, Policy, and Organized Membership
The examination is partly theoretical, but it includes reference to the experience of parties that have been plainly programmatic. Policy-making in this sense presents the programmatic party with the problem of how and by whom decisions are to be made. The problem of how policy is made in a programmatic party revolves around the part to be played by the organized membership. From what has been said about an ideal case for the institutional examin…
The Nature of Competition
To have more than one party seems a democratic norm. This follows from the assumption that political democracy requires competition to give the voters a choice. The basis for competition is intra-party, and its form is the party primary officially conducted by the state in the manner of a general election. The basis for competition is intra-party, and its form is the party primary officially conducted by the state in the manner of a general elect…
The Socialist Working-Class Party
American socialists failed because they were unable to recruit large-scale support in the working class. This was not because of the absence of trade unions, but because of the absence of enough so-cialist-organized or socialist-oriented ones. The socialist working-class party is not the only kind of party to have mass membership, but it has been the most frequent, and all socialist parties that have become major political forces have mass member…
Political Parties in Western Democracies
Presents a brilliant, persuasive case that American political parties, so often dismissed as immature or ineffective compared with their European counterparts, are in fact old and durable political organizations, serving well the needs of a pluralistic society. What chiefly distinguishes this work is the inclusion of considerable material on American parties in a comparative context to the analysis of British, Scandinavian, European, Canadian, Au…
Political Research and Political Theory
William H. Young
At age 93, William H. Young died at his home in Madison, Wisconsin, on March 3, 2006. His long career was distinguished for contributions not only to political science and to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on whose faculty he served for 36 years, but also to Wisconsin state government, international educational development, particularly in Asia, and several Madison organizations on whose boards he remained an active member for more than two…
The British Regulatory State: High Modernism and Hyper-Innovation
The British Regulatory State: High Modernism and Hyper-Innovation. By Michael Moran. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 256p. $65.00. Drawing on experienced scholarly observation, Michael Moran has written a strikingly critical evaluation of Britain's recent development of state regulatory authority. Its now legalistic form more nearly resembles the long-prevalent American pattern. Perhaps the British development would seem to follow from t…
David Fellman
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Blair's Britain
The British General Election of 1997
Journal Article The British General Election of 1997 Get access The British General Election of 1997 by David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh. New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1998. 343 pp. $55.00. Leon D. Epstein Leon D. Epstein University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 3, Fall 1998, Pages 551–552, https://doi.org/10.2307/2658109 Published: 15 F…
SDP: The Birth, Life, and Death of the Social Democratic Party, by Anthony King and Ivor Crewe
Journal Article SDP: The Birth, Life, and Death of the Social Democratic Party, by Anthony King and Ivor Crewe Get access SDP: The Birth, Life, and Death of the Social Democratic Party by Ivor Crewe and Anthony King. New York, Oxford University Press, 1995. 611 pp. $47.00. Leon D. Epstein Leon D. Epstein University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 112…
Apsa/JPSA Exchange Reaches 7th Year
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The Disenchanted Isle: Mrs. Thatcher's Capitalist Revolution, by Charles Dellheim
Westminster's World: Understanding Political Roles, by Donald D. Searing
Changing Perceptions of the British System
Leon D. Epstein, Changing Perceptions of the British System, Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 109, No. 3, Conference Issue: Presidential and Parliamentary Democracies: Which Work Best? (Summer, 1994), pp. 483-498
Political Parties in Western Democracies
Presents a brilliant, persuasive case that American political parties, so often dismissed as immature or ineffective compared with their European counterparts, are in fact old and durable political organizations, serving well the needs of a pluralistic society. What chiefly distinguishes this work is the inclusion of considerable material on American parties in a comparative context to the analysis of British, Scandinavian, European, Canadian, Au…
A Comparative Study of Canadian Parties
Useful studies of Canadian political parties are available, and doubtless others will be soon. I am not trying to add another specifically Canadian study nor even to contribute new information helpful in understanding Canada. Instead I want to use what is known about Canadian parties in order to change the comparative perspective in which we ordinarily view American parties. More particularly I am attempting to put in a new light the well-worn vi…
What Happened to the British Party Model
Admired during much of this century, the British party model became especially attractive to American political scientists seeking responsible-party government in the early postwar years. After the mid-1960s, the model's appeal declined as did Britain's national status and the hopes for the democratic socialism often associated with the model. In the 1970s, the model itself seems to have worked in a way unlike that of prior decades. From this int…
The Two Electorates: Voters and Non-Voters in a Wisconsin Primary
Westminster's World: Understanding Political Roles, by Donald D. Searing
Voters Begin to Choose: From Closed-Class to Open Elections in Britain, by Richard Rose and Ian McAllister
Journal Article Voters Begin to Choose: From Closed-Class to Open Elections in Britain, by Richard Rose and Ian McAllister Get access Voters Begin to Choose: From Closed-Class to Open Elections in Britain by Richard Rose and Ian McAllister. Beverly Hills, Calif., Sage Publications, 1986. 178 pp. Paper, $14.95. Leon D. Epstein Leon D. Epstein University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar P…
Cohesion of British Parliamentary Parties
In the perspective of those political scientists who would reform American parties so as to make them more "responsible," British parties are familiar prototypes. Prominent among the admired qualities is the cohesion displayed in parliamentary voting by the members of each major British party. That this cohesion is greater than that of American legislative parties has been generally observed at least since the work of A. Lawrence Lowell. And it i…
Crisis. The Inside Story of the Suez Conspiracy
SDP: The Birth, Life, and Death of the Social Democratic Party, by Anthony King and Ivor Crewe
Journal Article SDP: The Birth, Life, and Death of the Social Democratic Party, by Anthony King and Ivor Crewe Get access SDP: The Birth, Life, and Death of the Social Democratic Party by Ivor Crewe and Anthony King. New York, Oxford University Press, 1995. 611 pp. $47.00. Leon D. Epstein Leon D. Epstein University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 112…
Democracy and Elections: Electoral Systems and Their Political Consequences, by David Butler and Vernon Bogdanor, Eds
Contributors Preface Glossary 1. Introduction Vernon Bogdanor 2. Elections and electoral systems: choices and alternatives Richard Rose 3. Variants of the Westminster model David Butler 4. France David Goldey and Philip Williams 5. Germany Peter Pulzer 6. Italy Christopher Seton-Watson 7. Scandinavia Bo Sarlvik 8. Benelux Dick Leonard 9. The Republic of Ireland Paul McKee 10. Greece Richard Clogg 11. Japan J. A. A. Stockwin 12. The European Parli…
The British Regulatory State: High Modernism and Hyper-Innovation
The British Regulatory State: High Modernism and Hyper-Innovation. By Michael Moran. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 256p. $65.00. Drawing on experienced scholarly observation, Michael Moran has written a strikingly critical evaluation of Britain's recent development of state regulatory authority. Its now legalistic form more nearly resembles the long-prevalent American pattern. Perhaps the British development would seem to follow from t…
Party Confederations and Political Naltionalization
Journal Article Party Confederations and Political Naltionalization Get access Leon D. Epstein Leon D. Epstein University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 12, Issue 4, Fall 1982, Pages 67–102, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037411 Published: 01 January 1982
A Comparative Study of Australian Parties
At the beginning of his book on Australian politics, David Butler tellingly contrasts an earlier American exploration with his expedition to Canberra. Familiarity with British government had initially led him to ask untranslatable questions about a separate and essentially non-comparable American system. But the same British background, he reports, made for appropriate questions in Australia even though the answers might differ from those receive…
Electoral Decision and Policy Mandate: An Empirical Example
From survey data concerning a gubernatorial election and tax policy preferences, the author shows that policy preferences. while probably providing a crucial electoral increment, do not thus provide a majority mandate for the policy proposed by the winning candidate
British M.P.S and their Local Parties: The Suez Cases
Most students of British parties have accepted the view that the mass organizations are decidedly subordinate to parliamentary leadership. Mainly this has meant rejection of the idea that policy is imposed by a party conference, or its delegated executive, in the Labour party as in the Conservative party. But it may also lead one to ignore or depreciate the role of the constituency units which compose the national organizations. That it is a mist…
The British General Election of 1997
Journal Article The British General Election of 1997 Get access The British General Election of 1997 by David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh. New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1998. 343 pp. $55.00. Leon D. Epstein Leon D. Epstein University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 3, Fall 1998, Pages 551–552, https://doi.org/10.2307/2658109 Published: 15 F…
British Cabinet Ministers: The Roles of Politicians in Executive Office, by Bruce Headey
Political Science and Presidential Nominations
Two concerns prompt this study. The first, plainer and more specific, is to use post-1976 hindsight to appraise selected generalizations that political scientists made about presidential nominations before the nominations of 1976. The second concern flows largely from the extent to which the generalizations are found to hold for the nominations of 1976 and for those that might be thought to follow. Does the appraisal lead to a favorable view of t…
British Class Consciousness and The Labour Party
Customarily, the British Labour party has been regarded as the natural product of an advanced industrial society. Given a sufficiently developed economy, like Britain's in the early years of the twentieth century, it was assumed that a socialist working-class party was due to emerge as an increasingly large and effective force. In this democratized version of Marxism, the absence of such a party in the United States had to be explained as the res…
Partisan Foreign Policy: Britain in the Suez Crisis
Often as foreign policy may be the subject of partisan discussion in modern democracies, important international commitments are usually made only with support, or the expectation of support, from the great bulk of the political community. This has surely been the ordinary American and British pattern, labeled bi-partisan, non-partisan, or extra-partisan. We assume that political support extending well beyond the ranks of the party in office is e…
Size of Place and the Division of the Two-Party Vote in Wisconsin
T HIS STUDY is a modest attempt to add to the growing supply of information concerning voting behavior and to do so by the comparatively inexpensive method of analyzing election returns. It may be granted that when this method requires correlation with ecological data it seems less exact and reliable than the sample survey as a means of learning how individuals in various economic, social, or ethnic groups have voted.1 However, the purpose for wh…
Books for Teaching British Politics
To review books introducing students to the British political system will not strike everyone as an edifying experience even when, as here, the task includes only some of many available textbooks plus a few supplemental works. Focusing on textbooks, despite their often admirable scholarship, reflects primarily our concern as teachers. My concern comes from almost forty years of teaching British politics in American classrooms. What I look for in …
Reforming the Reforms: A Critical Analysis of the Presidential Selection Process, by James W. Ceaser
The Nuclear Deterrent and the British Election of 1964
There was little reason to have expected Britain's international policies to be of major concern to most voters in casting their ballots in the 1964 General Election. Party disagreement over entering the European Economic Community was at least temporarily in abeyance after de Gaulle's veto. No great imperial question remained to divide Conservatives from the Labour or Liberal Parties. Membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was firm…
British Mass Parties in Comparison with American Parties
Journal Article British Mass Parties in Comparison with American Parties Get access Leon D. Epstein Leon D. Epstein University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 1, March 1956, Pages 97–125, https://doi.org/10.2307/2145001 Published: 15 March 1956
The Negro in the United States
Political Sterilization of Civil Servants: The United States and Great Britain
solely on its merits as public policy. Until 1947 most of the debate on the legislation concerned its constitutionality. Now, however, since the Supreme Court affirmed the congressional power to prohibit government employees from engaging in political activity, the public policy question is no longer wrapped in the language of constitutional controversy.l Plainly what remains is whether Congress has exercised wisely its power to curtail the polit…
Socialism and the British Labor Party
The British Labour Left and U. S. Foreign Policy
Perhaps it is the absence of a substantial communist opposition in Great Britain that has caused Americans to be less concerned about the reactions of our British allies than of the continental nations to the recent foreign policy of the United States. However, if Americans assumed an almost universal British acceptance of the foreign policy adopted by the United States and formally adhered to by the British Government, the Bevanite revolt of ear…
British Labour's Foreign Policy
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The Advice and Consent of the Senate
Politics of British Conservatism
A rough measure of the resilience of the British Conservative party is indicated by the relatively rapid comeback from the electoral defeat of 1945. Instead of a twenty years' exile, like that of American Republicans, the Conservatives were out of office only six years. To be sure, their return to power was by a very slim parliamentary majority, representing less than half the popular vote cast in the General Election of 1951. And the ups and dow…
Britain. Uneasy Ally
Modern Political Parties: Approaches to Comparative Politics, by Sigmund Neumann
A Two-Party Wisconsin
American Parties: A Wisconsin Case-Study
The Origins of the British Labour Party
British Mass Parties in Comparison with American Parties
Journal Article British Mass Parties in Comparison with American Parties Get access Leon D. Epstein Leon D. Epstein University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 1, March 1956, Pages 97–125, https://doi.org/10.2307/2145001 Published: 15 March 1956
Cohesion of British Parliamentary Parties
In the perspective of those political scientists who would reform American parties so as to make them more "responsible," British parties are familiar prototypes. Prominent among the admired qualities is the cohesion displayed in parliamentary voting by the members of each major British party. That this cohesion is greater than that of American legislative parties has been generally observed at least since the work of A. Lawrence Lowell. And it i…
Size of Place and the Division of the Two-Party Vote in Wisconsin
T HIS STUDY is a modest attempt to add to the growing supply of information concerning voting behavior and to do so by the comparatively inexpensive method of analyzing election returns. It may be granted that when this method requires correlation with ecological data it seems less exact and reliable than the sample survey as a means of learning how individuals in various economic, social, or ethnic groups have voted.1 However, the purpose for wh…
Politics in Wisconsin
Britain and the H-bomb, 1955–1958
Britain's decision in 1955, reaffirmed by policy and action through 1958, to manufacture its own hydrogen bomb has raised important questions about the effectiveness of joint Anglo-American defense arrangements. That the British development of massive retaliatory weapons involved a costly and unnecessary duplication of the American program has been persuasively argued by Henry Kissinger. Like many others, Kissinger would have preferred Britain to…
The British Communist Party: A Historical Profile, by Henry Pelling ; Labour and Politics, 1900-1906: A History of the Labour Representation Committee, by Henry Pelling and Frank Bealey
Journal Article The British Communist Party: A Historical Profile, by Henry Pelling ; Labour and Politics, 1900-1906: A History of the Labour Representation Committee, by Henry Pelling and Frank Bealey Get access The British Communist Party: A Historical Profile. By Henry Peeling. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1958.—viii, 204 pp. $3.75.Labour and Politics, 1900-1906: A History of the Labour Representation Committee. By Frank Bealey and Henry P…
Light in the Shadows of the Domes
The Analysis of Political Systems. Douglas V. Verney
British M.P.S and their Local Parties: The Suez Cases
Most students of British parties have accepted the view that the mass organizations are decidedly subordinate to parliamentary leadership. Mainly this has meant rejection of the idea that policy is imposed by a party conference, or its delegated executive, in the Labour party as in the Conservative party. But it may also lead one to ignore or depreciate the role of the constituency units which compose the national organizations. That it is a mist…
Partisan Foreign Policy: Britain in the Suez Crisis
Often as foreign policy may be the subject of partisan discussion in modern democracies, important international commitments are usually made only with support, or the expectation of support, from the great bulk of the political community. This has surely been the ordinary American and British pattern, labeled bi-partisan, non-partisan, or extra-partisan. We assume that political support extending well beyond the ranks of the party in office is e…
New M.P.s and the Politics of the PLP
British Class Consciousness and The Labour Party
Customarily, the British Labour party has been regarded as the natural product of an advanced industrial society. Given a sufficiently developed economy, like Britain's in the early years of the twentieth century, it was assumed that a socialist working-class party was due to emerge as an increasingly large and effective force. In this democratized version of Marxism, the absence of such a party in the United States had to be explained as the res…
Discussions and Reviews: The study of Anglo-American relations: a review
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