Alan Ware
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Ware |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ware |
| SIGNATURE | WARE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Making of Empirical Political Science in the UK: Jean Blondel, David Butler and Peter Pulzer
During the winter of 2022–3, three of the most influential individuals in the development of empirical political science in Europe, died. All had been active in research between at least the early 1960s and the present century. David Butler had pioneered, especially, the study of electoral behaviour and particularly in the UK. Jean Blondel had founded the outstanding Department of Government at Essex University and he was one of the principal aca…
Democracy through Time: Identity Politics and Future Generations
Since the 1980s identities have re‐emerged as a powerful factor shaping support for specific public policies, often doing so at the expense of prioritising the interests of future generations. Outside the United States a major causal factor has been the declining ability of many political parties to mobilise support for themselves and their policies. Consequently, considerations derived from the past can be at the expense of future citizens. This…
Inequality in Britain
Funding Democratization
Apsa Active and Award Committees
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Grammar Schools, a Policy of Social Mobility and Selection—Why
Initially, four plausible reasons for introducing selection in secondary education are examined, three of which are irrelevant to contemporary debates about expanding grammar‐school education. These are: first, to ration education in less advanced economies; second, to increase the supply of skilled labour within an expanded national elite; third, as part of a ‘segmented’ system of education. A fourth—increasing upward social mobility—is open to …
Anthony King: His Intellectual Legacy. Introduction
The Department of Government at Essex University provided a favourable environment for the development of Anthony King's work. While his primary interest was the UK , his intellectual interests were far broader in scope and informed by comparative insights. His key work was on political leadership, but he also made crucial contributions on other issues such as ungovernability. He had a particular concern with the quality of government, reflected …
Donald Trump's Hijacking of the Republican Party in Historical Perspective
Four aspects of Donald Trump's hijack of the Republican party are examined. First, how he used unconventional techniques, usually associated with some ‘reality’ television programmes, to become the leading candidate in the pre‐primary debates. He could thereby develop ‘momentum’ before the primaries began despite his limited support among Republican activists. Second, how his insurgency differed from the party's takeover in 1964 by supporters of …
Electoral Systems
Yes, a Fraud: A Response to Johnston
The Great British Education ‘Fraud’ of the Twentieth and Twenty‐First Centuries
The role played by educational credentials in British labour market recruitment changed radically during the mid‐twentieth century. Having higher or better credentials than others became a key determinant in selection for society's best‐paid jobs. The resulting race for them has had perverse effects. A large minority of graduates earn no more than non‐graduates or are in jobs for which they are ‘overeducated’. In various ways, the incentive to ‘s…
Guaranteed Rotation in Office’: A Comment
Berlusconi, Boehner and the Brink: Lessons for Political Reform in Britain
In the early autumn of 2013 large minorities in Italy and the United States fermented crises that badly disrupted the government of the two countries. These cases were widely understood as instances of dysfunction in established democracies that would rarely be replicated elsewhere. However, while all the conditions that generated the crises are unlikely to be evident in other established democracies three important factors that caused the disrup…
Peter Mair (1951–2011)
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The Big Society and Conservative Politics: Back to the Future or Forward to the Past
Exceptionalism, Political Science and the Comparative Analysis of Political Parties
For more than four decades the analysis of party organizations in the European democracies has been completely separated from analyses of American party structures. The first part of this article examines how and why such a separation was to emerge in the aftermath of Duverger's and Epstein's path-breaking original work. It then goes on to outline how an analytic framework might be developed so that more wide-ranging comparative studies of party …
The Dynamics of Two-Party Politics
This book examines the role played by the parties themselves in two-party systems. It rejects the argument that the behaviour of the parties is determined largely by social forces or by the supposed logic of the electoral market. Instead, it shows that both structure and agency can matter. It focuses on three major aspects of change in two-party systems: why occasionally major parties collapse; why collapsed parties sometimes survive as minor par…
The dynamics of two-party politics: Party Structures and the Management of Competition
Nelson Polsby: The "Great Facilitator" in Trans-Atlantic Scholarship
How Congress Evolves: Social Bases of Institutional Change by Nelson W. Polsby
Journal Article How Congress Evolves: Social Bases of Institutional Change by Nelson W. Polsby Get access How Congress Evolves: Social Bases of Institutional Changeby Nelson W. Polsby. New York, Oxford University Press, 2004. 272pp. $29.95. Alan Ware Alan Ware Oxford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 121, Issue 3, Fall 2006, Pages 510–512, https://doi.org/10.100…
Old Political Issues and Contemporary Political Science
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The United States: Populism as Political Strategy
Unless discussion is focused specifically on the People’s Party of the late nineteenth century, American populism proves to be a curiously elusive subject. From one perspective, many aspects of American politics can be described, broadly, as populist in character. However, once particular instances of alleged populism are subjected to analysis, it appears that much that might otherwise be identified as populist can be incorporated within some oth…
The American Direct Primary: Party Institutionalization and Transformation in the North
This book rejects conventional accounts of how American political parties differ from those in other democracies. It focuses on the introduction of the direct primary and argues that primaries resulted from a process of party institutionalization initiated by party elites. It overturns the widely accepted view that, between 1902 and 1915, direct primaries were imposed on the parties by anti-party reformers intent on weakening them. An examination…
All‐embracing Comparative Analysis
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Anti-Partism and Party Control of Political Reform in the United States: The Case of the Australian Ballot
This article examines critically an explanation, first propounded by Austin Ranney, as to the causes of party reform in the United States. Ranney argued that there is an ambivalent attitude to parties in the United States; while there is evidence of popular support for parties, the political culture is also infused by anti-party values. Periodically this has facilitated the enactment of legislation, promoted by anti-party reformers, constraining …
Activist–Leader Relations and the Structure of Political Parties: Exchange’ Models and Vote-Seeking Behaviour in Parties
This article examines how party organization affects, and is itself affected by, the objectives pursued by parties in liberal democracies; it focuses on vote-seeking behaviour by parties. It argues that it is a mistake to model activist–leader relations in the past as having been primarily the product of particular kinds of ‘exchanges’ between leaders and activists in a party. Such models limit our understanding of intra-party relations in four i…
Divisive’ Primaries: The Important Questions
A small, but apparently expanding, area of research in the United States has developed around the issue of whether divisive primary elections harm the general election prospects of the winners of such primaries. The subject matter is important, being of interest to students of intra-party democracy, party organization and voting behaviour. Unfortunately the research reported in major American political science journals has been directed, with one…
Anti-Partism and Party Control of Political Reform in the United States: The Case of the Australian Ballot
This article examines critically an explanation, first propounded by Austin Ranney, as to the causes of party reform in the United States. Ranney argued that there is an ambivalent attitude to parties in the United States; while there is evidence of popular support for parties, the political culture is also infused by anti-party values. Periodically this has facilitated the enactment of legislation, promoted by anti-party reformers, constraining …
The Concept of Manipulation: Its Relation to Democracy and Power
The aim of this paper is to explicate the concept of manipulation, to show why it is of central importance in democratic theory, and to explain its relation to power. At first glance this might seem an unusual objective, since it remains one of the least studied of the concepts that are usually recognized as members of the power or control ‘family’. Yet allegations of the existence of manipulative practices, and demands for intervention by public…
Elections, American style
Journal Article Elections, American style Get access Elections, American style. Edited By A. James Reichley. Washington, DC : Brookings. (Distrib. in UK by University of Chicago Press, London.) 290pp. Index. £26.25; ISBN 0 815 77382 X. Pb.: £9.50; ISBN 0 8157 7381 1. Alan Ware Alan Ware 1University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 4, autumn 1988, Pages 742–…
Party systems in Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium
Party systems in Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium Party systems in Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium. Edited by Hans Daalder. London: Pinter. 1987. 372pp. Index. £20.00. ISBN 0 86187 369 6. Alan Ware Alan Ware 1University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 1, Winter 1987, Pages 137–138, https://doi.org/10.230…
Donald Trump's Hijacking of the Republican Party in Historical Perspective
Four aspects of Donald Trump's hijack of the Republican party are examined. First, how he used unconventional techniques, usually associated with some ‘reality’ television programmes, to become the leading candidate in the pre‐primary debates. He could thereby develop ‘momentum’ before the primaries began despite his limited support among Republican activists. Second, how his insurgency differed from the party's takeover in 1964 by supporters of …
Citizens, Parties and the State
The Breakdown of the Democratic Party Organization, 1940-1980
Journal Article The Breakdown of the Democratic Party Organization, 1940–1980. By Alan Ware. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1985. xii + 275 pp. $29.95.) Get access Herbert S. Parmet Herbert S. Parmet Graduate School and University Center, CUNY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 2, September 1986, Page 521, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908329 Published: 01 September 1986
Exceptionalism, Political Science and the Comparative Analysis of Political Parties
For more than four decades the analysis of party organizations in the European democracies has been completely separated from analyses of American party structures. The first part of this article examines how and why such a separation was to emerge in the aftermath of Duverger's and Epstein's path-breaking original work. It then goes on to outline how an analytic framework might be developed so that more wide-ranging comparative studies of party …
The Big Society and Conservative Politics: Back to the Future or Forward to the Past
The Concept of Political Equality: A Post-Dahl Analysis
This article presents an analysis of the concept of political equality that is derived partly from the analysis of Robert Dahl. Following an introductory section, the conservative nature of Dahl's idea of political equality is outlined from four perspectives. With the last of these perspectives, a distinction between ‘populist’ and ‘liberal’ theories of democracy is introduced. In the third section it is argued that there are three components of …
Liberal Democracy: One Form or Many
This article examines whether there are significant differences between liberal democracies which warrant them being classified as different forms of democracy. The article begins by outlining six features of liberal democracy which are crucial in understanding how this type of government works. The subsequent section examines the origins of liberal democracy and considers the relevance of arguments derived from American ‘exceptionalism’. Attenti…
Political Parties: Inside and out
Interests in Political Theory
This article examines the concept of interests in politics which has been the subject of major debate in recent years. It makes two proposals: one concerns the elucidation of the concept of interests; the other concerns the relative status of an agent's perception of his or her own interests and an observer's specification of them. For brevity, statements of the form ‘x is in A's interest’ are referred to as interest-statements
On Scale and Scope and the history of the non-profit sector in the United Kingdom
This article argues that Alfred Chandler's analysis of the British firm cannot be transposed to the very different context of non-profit organisations in Britain. Both in relation to charitable non-profit organisations and mutual benefit organisations, Chandler's theory of the development of firms does not help explain organisational development. The main thrust of the argument is that the explanation for the smaller size of charitable non-profit…
The Party Systems of the Established Liberal Democracies in the 1990s: Is this a Decade of Transformation
DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE 1990s ABOUT ONE THIRD OF the countries which had been governed continuously by liberal democratic regimes since the mid-1950s experienced major electoral upheavals at a general election. In the case of eight countries an argument could be made that electoral politics was not as it had been, and that the party systems were now experiencing problems that were quite different in scale from those with which they had conte…
Grammar Schools, a Policy of Social Mobility and Selection—Why
Initially, four plausible reasons for introducing selection in secondary education are examined, three of which are irrelevant to contemporary debates about expanding grammar‐school education. These are: first, to ration education in less advanced economies; second, to increase the supply of skilled labour within an expanded national elite; third, as part of a ‘segmented’ system of education. A fourth—increasing upward social mobility—is open to …
The Great British Education ‘Fraud’ of the Twentieth and Twenty‐First Centuries
The role played by educational credentials in British labour market recruitment changed radically during the mid‐twentieth century. Having higher or better credentials than others became a key determinant in selection for society's best‐paid jobs. The resulting race for them has had perverse effects. A large minority of graduates earn no more than non‐graduates or are in jobs for which they are ‘overeducated’. In various ways, the incentive to ‘s…
All‐embracing Comparative Analysis
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Robert Dahl, Political Scientist
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The failure of presidential democracy
Journal Article The failure of presidential democracy Get access The failure of presidential democracy. Edited by Juan L. Linzand Arturo Valenzuela. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1994. 436pp. Index. £54.00. ISBN 0 8018 4639 0 Alan Ware Alan Ware 1Worcester College, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 70, Issue 4, October 1994, Page 774, https:…
Placing parties in American politics: Organization, electoral settings, and government activity in the twentieth century
Journal Article Placing parties in American politics: organization, electoral settings, and government activity in the twentieth century Get access Placing parties in American politics: organization, electoral settings, and government activity in the twentieth century. By David R. Mayhew. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1986. 395pp. Index. £25.70; ISBN 0 691 07707 X. Pb.: £7.70; ISBN 0 691 02249 6. Alan Ware Alan Ware 1University of Wa…
Charity-State Relations: A Conceptual Analysis
This article examines the issues and the problems confronted by those conducting comparative research of charity-state relations in England, Canada and the United States. It also provides an explanation of why the interaction between charities and the state is important for political science: in part this is because in all three countries charities have become increasingly dependent on government for their income. In section I, the article examin…
Why Amateur Party Politics has Withered Away: The Club Movement, Party Reform and the Decline of American Party Organizations
This article is concerned with the decline of American party organizations and, in particular, with the role of amateur (issue‐oriented) activists in contributing to this. It focuses on two main problems. The first is the relevance of the post‐1968 Democratic party reforms in destroying the role of party in presidential nominations. Contrary to a widely held view, it is argued that a decentralized system of nomination would have emerged in an ‘un…
Polyarchy
The Logic of Party Democracy
The 1978 U.S. Mid-Term Elections in Historical Perspective
THE 1978 U.S. MID-TERM ELECTIONS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Get access Alan Ware Alan Ware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 32, Issue 1, 1979, Pages 207–221, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051774 Published: 01 January 1979
Divisive’ Primaries: The Important Questions
A small, but apparently expanding, area of research in the United States has developed around the issue of whether divisive primary elections harm the general election prospects of the winners of such primaries. The subject matter is important, being of interest to students of intra-party democracy, party organization and voting behaviour. Unfortunately the research reported in major American political science journals has been directed, with one…
The End of Party Politics? Activist-Officeseeker Relationships in the Colorado Democratic Party
This Note is concerned with a neglected aspect of American party politics in the last decade: the sources of development or decay in local and state organizations. In the wake of much research into the transformation of the American electorate during this period, it might seem surprising that changes in organizational politics should have attracted such scant attention. Nevertheless, this is easily explained once it is recalled how virtually all …
The 1980 U.S. Elections: Party Revival or Continuing Party Decline
THE 1980 U.S. ELECTIONS: PARTY REVIVAL OR CONTINUING PARTY DECLINE? Get access Alan Ware Alan Ware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2, Spring 1981, Pages 174–190, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a054196 Published: 01 March 1981
The Concept of Political Equality: A Post-Dahl Analysis
This article presents an analysis of the concept of political equality that is derived partly from the analysis of Robert Dahl. Following an introductory section, the conservative nature of Dahl's idea of political equality is outlined from four perspectives. With the last of these perspectives, a distinction between ‘populist’ and ‘liberal’ theories of democracy is introduced. In the third section it is argued that there are three components of …
Why Amateur Party Politics has Withered Away: The Club Movement, Party Reform and the Decline of American Party Organizations
This article is concerned with the decline of American party organizations and, in particular, with the role of amateur (issue‐oriented) activists in contributing to this. It focuses on two main problems. The first is the relevance of the post‐1968 Democratic party reforms in destroying the role of party in presidential nominations. Contrary to a widely held view, it is argued that a decentralized system of nomination would have emerged in an ‘un…
The Concept of Manipulation: Its Relation to Democracy and Power
The aim of this paper is to explicate the concept of manipulation, to show why it is of central importance in democratic theory, and to explain its relation to power. At first glance this might seem an unusual objective, since it remains one of the least studied of the concepts that are usually recognized as members of the power or control ‘family’. Yet allegations of the existence of manipulative practices, and demands for intervention by public…
Manipulation, Liberalism and Paternalism: A Reply to Morriss
In his Comment on my article Peter Morriss raises several interesting points, but in this reply I shall try to show that the objections he makes to my analysis are not convincing. I consider first the more general arguments grouped under my ‘second error’. This permits consideration of the ‘first error’ to be placed in the context of anti-paternalist liberal arguments
Interests in Political Theory
This article examines the concept of interests in politics which has been the subject of major debate in recent years. It makes two proposals: one concerns the elucidation of the concept of interests; the other concerns the relative status of an agent's perception of his or her own interests and an observer's specification of them. For brevity, statements of the form ‘x is in A's interest’ are referred to as interest-statements
The Breakdown of the Democratic Party Organization, 1940-1980
Journal Article The Breakdown of the Democratic Party Organization, 1940–1980. By Alan Ware. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1985. xii + 275 pp. $29.95.) Get access Herbert S. Parmet Herbert S. Parmet Graduate School and University Center, CUNY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 2, September 1986, Page 521, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908329 Published: 01 September 1986
The life of the parties: Activists in presidential politics
The life of the parties: activists in presidential politics Get access The life of the parties: activists in presidential politics. Edited by Ronald B. Rapoport, Alan I. Abramowitz and John McGlennon. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky. 1986. (Distrib. in UK by Harper & Row, London.) 242pp. Index. £26⋅40. ISBN 0 8131 1559 0. Alan Ware Alan Ware 1University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Charity-State Relations: A Conceptual Analysis
This article examines the issues and the problems confronted by those conducting comparative research of charity-state relations in England, Canada and the United States. It also provides an explanation of why the interaction between charities and the state is important for political science: in part this is because in all three countries charities have become increasingly dependent on government for their income. In section I, the article examin…
US Presidential Nominations in 1988: Will Changing the Rules Again Change the Game
Party systems in Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium
Party systems in Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium Party systems in Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium. Edited by Hans Daalder. London: Pinter. 1987. 372pp. Index. £20.00. ISBN 0 86187 369 6. Alan Ware Alan Ware 1University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 1, Winter 1987, Pages 137–138, https://doi.org/10.230…
Placing parties in American politics: Organization, electoral settings, and government activity in the twentieth century
Journal Article Placing parties in American politics: organization, electoral settings, and government activity in the twentieth century Get access Placing parties in American politics: organization, electoral settings, and government activity in the twentieth century. By David R. Mayhew. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1986. 395pp. Index. £25.70; ISBN 0 691 07707 X. Pb.: £7.70; ISBN 0 691 02249 6. Alan Ware Alan Ware 1University of Wa…
The 1986 American Mid-Term Elections: The Reagan Legacy to the Republican Party
Journal Article THE 1986 AMERICAN MID-TERM ELECTIONS: THE REAGAN LEGACY TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY Get access Alan Ware Alan Ware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 40, Issue 2, April 1987, Pages 172–187, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052090 Published: 01 April 1987
Elections, American style
Journal Article Elections, American style Get access Elections, American style. Edited By A. James Reichley. Washington, DC : Brookings. (Distrib. in UK by University of Chicago Press, London.) 290pp. Index. £26.25; ISBN 0 815 77382 X. Pb.: £9.50; ISBN 0 8157 7381 1. Alan Ware Alan Ware 1University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 4, autumn 1988, Pages 742–…
Citizens, Parties and the State
Constitutionalism and democracy
Journal Article Constitutionalism and democracy Get access Constitutionalism and democracy. Edited by Jon Elsterand Rune Slagstad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1988. 359pp. Index. £27.50. ISBN 0 521 34530. Alan Ware Alan Ware 1University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 2, Spring 1989, Page 324, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622092 Published: 01 April …
Parties, Electoral Competition and Democracy
Journal Article PARTIES, ELECTORAL COMPETITION AND DEMOCRACY Get access Alan Ware Alan Ware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 1989, Pages 1–22, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052174 Published: 01 January 1989
Between Profit and State: Intermediate Organizations in Britain and the United States
Political Parties: Inside and out
Shifts in the Welfare Mix: Their Impact on Work, Social Services and Welfare Policies
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