Coalition governments in western Europe
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Coalition governments in western Europe
（Comparative politics）
Oxford University Press, 2003
- : pbk
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Originally published: 2000
Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Coalition Governments in Western Europe is the most comprehensive empirical analysis to date of coalition politics. Based on a large cross-national data collection, covering the entire post-war period from 1945 to 1999, it is the first systematic study of institutions of governance and conflict resolution in coalition governments. The book is also an unparalleled source of information, membership, termination, and electoral performance of coalition parties. The
volume also analyses the institutional frameworks in which coalition politics takes place in the individual countries and discusses which constraints for government formation, coalition governance, and colition termination result from them. The information has been collected in standardized form by first
rate country experts, and is presented in the form of standard tables.
Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary issues in comparative government and politics. The General Editors are Max Kaase, Professor of Political Science, Vice President and Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, International University Bremen, Germany, and Kenneth Newton, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Southampton. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political
Research.
Table of Contents
- 1. Coalition Governance in Western Europe: An Introduction
- 2. Germany: Stable Parties, Chancellor Democracy and the Art of Informal Settlement
- 3. Austria: Tight Coalitions and Stable Government
- 4. Ireland: From Single-Party to Coalition Rule
- 5. Norway: A Fragile Coalitional Order
- 6. Sweden: When Minority Cabinets Are the Rule and Majority Coalitions the Exception
- 7. Denmark: The Life and Death of Government Coalitions
- 8. Finland: The Consolidation of Parliamentary Governance
- 9. Belgium: On Government Agreements, Evangelists, Followers and Heretics
- 10. The Netherlands: Still the Politics of Accommodation?
- 11. Luxembourg: Stable Coalitions in a Pivotal Party System
- 12. Italy: From "Constrained" Coalitions to Alternating Governments?
- 13. France: Forming and Maintaining Government Coalitions in the Fifth Republic
- 14. Portugal: The Rationale of Democratic Regime-Building
- 15. Conclusion: Coalition Governance in Western Europe
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