Parties and Democracy: Coalition Formation and Government Functioning in Twenty States
Budge, IanAuthor
Keman, HansContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
1990.
This text studies the actual behaviour of some 400 governments in 20 post-World War II democracies, including those of Western Europe, Australia, Israel, Japan and New Zealand. It concludes that parties do in fact function in accordance with modern democratic theory.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This text studies the actual behaviour of some 400 governments in 20 post-World War II democracies, including those of Western Europe, Australia, Israel, Japan and New Zealand. It concludes that parties do in fact function in accordance with modern democratic theory.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Coalition governments
Political parties
Democracy.
Comparative government.