Michael Laver

Making and Breaking Governments

Cabinets and Legislatures in Parliamentary Democracies
Herausgeber: Calvert, Randall; Shepsle, Kenneth A.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Making and Breaking Governments offers a theoretical model of how parties create and then maintain or replace new governments. The theory involves strategic interaction and its consequences, then tests empirical hypotheses with data drawn from postwar European parliamentary democracies.

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Produktdetails

• Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9780521432450
• ISBN-10: 0521432456
• Artikelnr.: 21027083

Inhaltsangabe

Series editors' preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. The Context: 1. Theory, institutions, and government formation
2. The social context of government formation
3. The government formation process
Part II. The Model: 4. Government equilibrium
5. Strong parties
Part III. Empirical Investigations: 6. Two cases: Germany, 1987
Ireland, 1992-3
7. Theoretical implications, data, and operationalization
8. Exploring the model: a comparative perspective
9. A multivariate investigation of portfolio allocation
Part IV. Applications, Extensions, and Conclusions: 10. Party systems and cabinet stability
11. Making the model more realistic
12. Party politics and administrative reform
13. Governments and parliaments
Bibliography.