Party and Government
Subtitle: An Inquiry into the Relationship Between Governments and Supporting Parties in Liberal Democracies
Contributors: Jean Blondel (Editor); Maurizio Cotta (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Macmillan Press; St. Martin's Press
Published: June 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780312159177
Subjects: Europe, Western; India; Political Parties; United States; Politics/International Relations
Description: Party and Government is the first systematic study of one of the most important questions of contemporary liberal democracies: who really governs? Is it the government or the party, or parties, which support this government?

In this study, which covers nine Western European countries, the United States and India, specialists of these countries examine the answers to the question of the 'autonomy' or 'interdependence' of party and government on the basis of a common framework which covers the three levels of the relationship-appointments, policy-making, and patronage.