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Parties and Democracy : Coalition Formation and Government Functioning in Twenty States - Ian Budge
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Parties and Democracy

Coalition Formation and Government Functioning in Twenty States

By: Ian Budge, Hans Keman (As told to)

Paperback | 16 September 1993

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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.
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`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 `The research credentials are impressive ... The writing is precise, the presentation clear and well-supported throughout by statistical material ... there is a mine of valuable information about the governmental systems of individual states ... most impressive text.' Talking Politics

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