Parties and Democracy: Coalition Formation and Government Functioning in Twenty States

by Hans Keman and Ian Budge

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This book examines the actual behavior of 400 governments in 20 postwar democracies (including those of Western Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Israel) to determine how political parties operate and shape the special characteristics of individual governments. It concludes that parties do function more or less as modern democratic theory says they should, and provides an understanding of democratic government and its moral justification...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0198279256

ISBN13:9780198279259

Release Date:November 1993

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.69 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Comparative Politics Democracy Elections & Political Process English Literature Government Ideologies & Doctrines Language Arts Legal Theory & Systems Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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