Parties and democracy : coalition formation and government functioning in twenty states
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Parties and democracy : coalition formation and government functioning in twenty states
（Comparative European politics）
Oxford University Press, 1990
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Bibliography: p. [231]-235
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Political parties are the central institution through which mass representative democracies now work. They alone present voters with coherent policy alternatives in elections and effect them in government if elected. If we justify democracy in terms of its production of governments which are uniquely sensitive and responsive to popular preferences, it is through the political parties that it operates and from them that the special characteristics of the system derive How exactly do parties operate in government? There is much uncertainty about this, even on such basic questions as how coalition governments form in the first place and on what criteria they distribute government ministries among their members. Nor is it clear how parties influence government policy; or whether governments eventually break down because of disagreements on policy or for tactical or electoral reasons. "Parties and Democracy" gives clear answers to these questions by looking at the actual behaviour of some 500 governments in 20 post-war democracies.
Their conclusion that parties do function in accordance with modern democratic theory will serve to put moral justifications of democracy and descriptions of the system on a firmer footing.
目次
- Explaining democratic government - background considerations
- the general theory of party government
- government formation
- the distribution of ministries
- party influences on government policy
- government breakdown - cases and effects
- parties steering the state - evaluation and development of the theory.
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