Parties and Democracy

Coalition Formation and Government Functioning in Twenty States

Hans Keman author Ian Budge author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:16th Sep '93

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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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.

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 *

ISBN: 9780198279259

Dimensions: 216mm x 139mm x 14mm

Weight: 349g

256 pages