Parliamentary democracy
Subtitle: democratization, destabilization, reconsolidation, 1789-1999
By: Klaus von Beyme.
Series: Advances in political science /  International Political Science Association; Advances in political science (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England).
Publisher: Macmillan; St. Martin's Press]; Published in associacion with International Political Science Association
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Representative government and representation.; Democracy.; Comparative government.
Description: "A comprehensive study of the parliamentary regimes since 1789, the book covers the road to the parliamentarization of former constitutional monarchies and the creation of parliamentary regimes by exercising the constitution-making power of the people. What has been called democratization in most of the 'transitology' literature was, until 1918, mostly only 'parliamentarization'. Democratization of the regimes frequently caused a certain destabilization of the parliamentary regimes by new parties and extremist movement entering the political arena."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-242) and index.