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

Zusatztext 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Explaining Democratic Government: Background Considerations 2: The General Theory of Party Government 3: Government Formation 4: The Distribution of Ministries 5: Party Influences on Government Policy 6: Government Termination: Causes and Effects 7: Parties Steering the State: Evaluation and Development of the Theory Appendix A: Party Factions and Cabinet Reshuffles Appendix B: Data: Sources and Preparation

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• Authors: Ian Budge, Ian (Professor of Government Budge, Ian Keman Budge, Hans Keman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.09.1993
• EAN: 9780198279259
• ISBN: 978-0-19-827925-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics (Paperbac; Comparative Politics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education