TY - BOOK AU - Bergman,Torbjèorn AU - Bèack,Hanna AU - Hellstrèom,Johan TI - Coalition governance in Western Europe T2 - Comparative politics SN - 9780191905018 (ebook) : AV - JN94.A979 U1 - 324.094 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Coalition governments KW - Europe, Western N1 - This edition also issued in print: 2021; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - Coalition government is the most frequent form of government in Western Europe, but we have relatively little systematic knowledge about how that form of government has developed in recent decades. This book studies such governments, covering the full life-cycle of coalitions from the formation of party alliances before elections to coalition formation after elections (or in the sitting parliament), portfolio distribution among the coalition parties, governing and policy-making when parties work together in office, and the stages that eventually lead to government termination. A particular emphasis is on the study of how coalitions govern together even when they have different agendas UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198868484.001.0001 ER -