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Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining : The Democractic Life Cycle in Western Europe
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Strøm, Kaare (editor)
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Müller, Wolfgang C. (editor)
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Bergman, Torbjörn (editor)
- ISBN 9780198297864
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008
- English xiv, 443 s.
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Series: Comparative politics
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- "Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining: The Democratic Life Cycle in Western Europe provides a comprehensive analysis of coalition politics in Western Europe over the post-war period. It champions a dynamic approach in which the various stages in the life of coalitions influence each other. After a review of the literature a theory chapter addresses the roles of bargaining and transaction costs in coalition governance. Eight comparative chapters address the topics of government formation (government type, formation duration), coalition agreements, portfolio allocation, conflict management, cabinet termination and duration, and the electoral consequences of coalition government. The book is based on the most comprehensive data set ever employed in coalition studies that includes both coalitional and single-party countries and governments. Each chapter first provides a comparative overview of the phenomenon under study and then moves on to state-of-the art statistical analysis. Conceptually and in the statistical analysis the study argues for an integrated approach stressing the relevance of countries, time, 'structural attributes', actors' preferences, institutions, the coalition's bargaining environment, and 'critical events'. Indeed, sufficient explanations of most phenomena under study require independent variables from several of these categories"--Jacket.
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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Statsvetenskap -- Statsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Political Science -- Political Science (hsv//eng)
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- Coalition governments
- Europe
- Western
- Politics and government
- 20th century
- Koalitionsregeringar
- Västeuropa
- Political science
- Statsvetenskap
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