Making and Breaking Governments : Cabinets and Legislatures in Parliamentary Democracies

Name: Making and Breaking Governments
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521438360
Price: 6200 KES
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ISBN: 9780521438360

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions

ISBN-10 0521438365

ISBN-13 9780521438360

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 26th, 1996

Print length 316 Pages

Weight 492 grams

Dimensions 22.50 x 15.00 x 2.00 cms

Product Classification: Political structures / systems: democracy Political structures: democracy Central / national / federal government Central government

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Making and Breaking Governments offers a theoretical model of how parties create and then maintain or replace new governments. The theory involves strategic interaction and its consequences, then tests empirical hypotheses with data drawn from postwar European parliamentary democracies.

Making and Breaking Governments offers a theoretical argument about how parliamentary parties form governments, deriving from the political and social context of such government formation its generic sequential process. Based on their policy preferences, and their beliefs about what policies will be forthcoming from different conceivable governments, parties behave strategically in the game in which government portfolios are allocated. The authors construct a mathematical model of allocation of ministerial portfolios, formulated as a noncooperative game, and derive equilibria. They also derive a number of empirical hypotheses about outcomes of this game, which they then test with data drawn from most of the postwar European parliamentary democracies. The book concludes with a number of observations about departmentalistic tendencies and centripetal forces in parliamentary regimes.

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