Coalitions in Parliamentary Government /

Coalitions in Parliamentary Government / / L. Dodd.

For eighty years, students of parliamentary democracy have argued that durable cabinets require majority party government. Lawrence Dodd challenges this widely held belief and offers in its place a revisionist interpretation based on contemporary game theory. He argues for a fundamental alteration i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Dodd, L.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1976
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1247
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Physical Description:1 online resource (306 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I. Theory
  • 2. A Theory of Cabinet Formation and Maintenance in Multiparty Parliaments
  • 3. Party Systems and Coalition Processes
  • Part II. Measurement
  • 4. Party System Fractionalization and Stability
  • 5. The Degree of Cleavage Conflict
  • 6. Cabinet Coalitional Status and Cabinet Durability
  • Part III. Analysis
  • 7. Party Coalitions in Multiparty Parliaments
  • 8. Party Government and Cabinet Durability: All Peacetime Parliaments
  • 9. Interwar-Postwar Contrasts
  • Part IV. Conclusion
  • 10. The Analysis of Parliamentary Coalitions: Problems and Prospects
  • 11. Party Systems and Democracy
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix Β: The Location of Parliamentary Parties on Salient Cleavage Dimensions
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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