Government Survival in Parliamentary Democracies

ISBN-13: 9780521470285 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 200 str.

British Columbia) Paul Warwick (Simon Fraser University

Opis

A highly puzzling phenomena in politics is why some parliamentary democracies, such as Britain, manage to produce highly durable governments, whereas others, such as Italy, experience governmental instability. This book reports the results of a quantitative investigation of the issue, using an innovative statistical methodology and a new data set covering sixteen West European countries over the entire postwar period. The results fundamentally challenge current theorizing on government survival and point to an alternative perspective on the relationship among governments, parties, and voters.

Recenzje

"Warwick's book will challenge students of governmental survival to rethink and sharpen their own models. His focus on ideological diversity within governments and economic trends adds useful perspectives." Journal of Politics

Spis treści

List of tables and figures; Preface; 1. Introduction: the government survival debates; 2. The quantitative study of government survival; 3. Basic attributes and government survival; 4. The role of ideology; 5. Economic conditions and government survival; 6. The underlying trend in government survival; 7. Model adequacy; 8. Conclusion: an alternative perspective on government survival; Appendix: a codebook of variables used in this study; Notes; References; Index.