Parties and democracy [electronic resource] : coalition formation and government functioning in twenty states / Ian Budge and Hans Keman.
Series: Comparative European politics: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1990Description: 1 online resource (xii, 243 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780191598883 (ebook) :; 0191598887 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Coalition governments -- Europe | Political parties -- Europe | Democracy | Comparative governmentAdditional Physical Form: Print version 9780198279259DDC classification: 324.2'04 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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.Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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.