Democratic Mandates: What Politicians Promise and (Fail to) Deliver
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Democratic Mandates: What Politicians Promise and (Fail to) Deliver: (Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems)

Democratic Mandates: What Politicians Promise and (Fail to) Deliver: (Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems)


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This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the established and expanding body of research on promissory representation.

It examines how context shapes what political parties promise during campaigns and whether they deliver once in power. The book focuses on established Western democracies such as the USA, UK, France, Germany, and Australia, as well as emerging and non-Western democracies, namely Ukraine, Indonesia and India. It reveals tactical promises designed to win votes but never meant to be fulfilled, vague promises that avoid accountability, contentious pledges that undermine liberal values when implemented, and long-term commitments that defer responsibility across generations. The book shows how formal and informal institutions shape promise-making and keeping, and how research on election pledges can hold
politicians to account.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political parties and party politics, elections and campaigning, and more broadly democracy and comparative politics.



Table of Contents:

1. Election Pledges and Democratic Representation 2. Election Pledges and the Common-Pool Resource Problem in Coalition Governments 3. Pledge Specificity in France and Germany: The Impact of Institutions 4. Pledge-Making in the United States, 1948–2024 5. The Process of Drafting Pre-Electoral Coalition Agreements in Italy: Inter-Party Negotiations Before the Ballot 6. Tactical Promises in Single-Party Governments in Australia and the United Kingdom 7. Narratives of Election Pledges in Austria 8. Conceptualizing Long-Term Pledges: When Promises Outlast Electoral Terms 9. Electoral Competition and Election Pledges in Ukraine 10. Campaign Promises in Mayoral Elections in Indonesia 11. Contentious Pledges and Public Reason: The Citizenship Pledge in India 12. A Decade of Australian and Canadian Pledge-Tracking: Comparing Digital Subgenres and Experiences 13. Election Pledge Research in an Era of Populism and Technological Transformation



About the Author :

Robert Thomson is a Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong, China.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781041235293
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Weight: 634 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1041235291
  • Publisher Date: 20 Aug 2026
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems
  • Width: 156 mm


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