Budge, Ian.

Parties and democracy coalition formation and government functioning in twenty states / [electronic resource] : Ian Budge and Hans Keman. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1990. - 1 online resource (xii, 243 p.) : ill. - Comparative European politics . - Comparative European politics. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Coalition governments--Europe.
Political parties--Europe.
Democracy.
Comparative government.

JN94.A979

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