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Making and Breaking Governments: Cabinets and Legislatures in Parliamentary Democracies

By Michael Laver , Kenneth A. Shepsle

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0521432456, 9780521432450, 0521438365, 9780521438360, 9780511625671
LCC
JF331 .L39 1996
Open Library ID
OL1277083M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6367107 bytes)
Series
Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
Edition
1St Edition
Pages
320\315
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

Making and Breaking Governments offers a theoretical argument about how parliamentary democracy works. The authors formulate a theoretical model of how parties create new governments and either maintain them in office or, after a resignation or no-confidence vote, replace them. The theory involves strategic interaction, derives consequences, formulates empirical hypotheses on the basis of these, and tests the hypotheses with data drawn from the postwar European experience with parliamentary democracy.

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