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Cover -- Series -- The Partisan Politics Of Law And Order -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Three Main Arguments In Brief -- 1.2 Research Design, Methods, And Data -- 1.3 Putting The Partisan Politics Of Law And Order In Context -- 1.3.1 General Pressures: Crime, Unemployment, Globalization, And The Public Mood -- 1.3.2 Proximate Context And The Impact Of Institutions -- 1.3.3 Political Actors And Party Politics -- 1.3.4 Policy Feedback 1.3.5 Putting The Existing Literature In Causal Order: A Conceptual Framework For The Explanation Of Law And Order Policies -- 1.4 Outline Of The Book And Chapter Preview -- 2 A Theoretical Framework Of The Partisan Politics Of Law And Order -- 2.1 Setting The Law And Order Agenda: Party Politics And Issue Competition -- 2.1.1 More Valence Than Positional: The Issue Of Law And Order -- 2.1.2 Salience And Issue Competition -- 2.1.3 Party System Configurations And Issue Competition On Law And Order -- 2.1.4 Expectations On Party Behavior 2.2 From Issue Competition To Outputs: How Government Participation And Institutional Constraints Affect Policies -- 2.3 Law And Order And Policy Feedback -- 2.4 Summary And Discussion Of Hypotheses And The Theoretical Model -- 3 Patterns Of Law And Order Policies In 20 Western Industrialized Countries: A Quantitative Analysis -- 3.1 Setting The Agenda: Issue Competition On Law And Order -- 3.1.1 Variables And Methods -- 3.1.2 Empirical Patterns Of Issue Competition On Law And Order -- 3.2 From Agenda To Policies I: Patterns Of Law And Order Spending -- 3.2.1 Variables And Methods 3.2.2 Empirical Patterns Of Law And Order Spending -- 3.3 From Agenda To Policies Ii: Patterns Of Law And Order Legislation In Four Western European Countries -- 3.3.1 Variables And Methods -- 3.3.2 Empirical Patterns Of Law And Order Legislation -- 3.4 Summary: Findings Of The Quantitative Analyses -- 4 Law And Order Policies And Third Way Social Democrats -- 4.