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Parties and Democracy: Coalition Formation and Government Functioning in Twenty States (Comparative European Politics) by Ian Budge and Hans Keman is a politics available to read on EtoBox.
What is Parties and Democracy: Coalition Formation and Government Functioning in Twenty States (Comparative European Politics) about?
Political parties are the central link in modern democracies: they get support from electors for their policies and put them into practice in government. At least, according to democratic theory. This book examines the actual behavior of 500 governments in 20 postwar democracies (including the East European Community, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Israel) to determine how parties operate government. It concludes that parties do function more or less as modern democratic theory says
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ian Budge and Hans Keman
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191598883
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Political Science, Social_sciences
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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