Policy Horizons and Parliamentary Government

By: P. Warwick

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Hardcover | 13 March 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Policy Horizons and Parliamentary Government introduces a new hypothesis concerning the formation and survival of coalition governments in Western European parliamentary democracies, the policy horizon hypothesis. Although the hypothesis itself is very simple, it implies a fundamental change in our understanding of how parliamentary systems function in the absence of a majority party. The book finds support for the hypothesis in a wide array of evidence, including findings based on a new survey of experts in West European political systems.

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List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
An overview of the policy horizon hypothesis	p. 7
Finding a horizon effect	p. 12
The plan of attack	p. 14
The Nature and Testing of the Policy Horizon Hypothesis	p. 18
Policy horizons and their consequences	p. 19
Testing the hypothesis	p. 28
Discussion	p. 39
Behaviour-based Horizons and Government Formation	p. 41
Measuring policy horizons from coalition behaviour	p. 42
Testing distance and horizons in West European systems	p. 54
Model assumptions	p. 65
Discussion	p. 71
Expert Estimates of Ideological Spaces and Party Bounds	p. 74
The design and implementation of the new survey	p. 75
The survey results: Coverage, reliability, and validity	p. 79
Discussion	p. 90
Survey-based Horizons and Government Formation	p. 92
Horizons versus distance	p. 93
An examination of the anomalies	p. 98
Model assumptions	p. 107
Discussion	p. 112
Elaborating the Horizon Framework	p. 115
Auxiliary effects in the manifesto-based data	p. 116
Auxiliary effects in the survey data	p. 129
Model assumptions	p. 132
A closer look at minority governments	p. 135
The explanatory impact of horizons	p. 138
Discussion	p. 141
Policy Horizons and Government Survival	p. 144
Modelling survival	p. 147
Government survival in the manifesto-based data	p. 154
Government survival in the survey data	p. 168
Discussion	p. 170
Conclusion	p. 172
What has been found	p. 175
What we do not know	p. 179
Is it worth it?	p. 184
The Horizons 3D[c] Program	p. 187
Results from the Expert Survey	p. 195
Notes	p. 221
References	p. 236
Index	p. 240
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