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.