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
Should be back in stock very soon
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