Parties and Democracy: Coalition Formation and Government Functioning in Twenty States (Comparative Politics)

by IanBudge (Author), HansKeman (Author)

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1993
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Parties and Democracy studies the actual behaviour of some four hundred governments in twenty post-war democracies. The conclusion that parties do function in accordance with modern democratic theory will serve to put moral justifications of democracy and descriptions of the system on a firmer footing.

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Parties and Democracy studies the actual behaviour of some four hundred governments in twenty post-war democracies. The conclusion that parties do function in accordance with modern democratic theory will serve to put moral justifications of democracy and descriptions of the system on a firmer footing.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New edition
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 16 Sep 1993
ISBN 10: 0198279256
ISBN 13: 9780198279259

Media Reviews

promises to be one of the most significant books on government formation and performance to appear in several years * West European Politics *
a very worthwhile and timely analysis * Political Studies *
Budge and Keman amass a formidable amount of evidence in support of their thesis that policy is the major determining factor in the creation and sustenance of coalition governments. * Times Literary Supplement *