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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Lanny W Martin; Georg Vanberg |
ISBN: | 9780199674787 0199674787 9780199607884 0199607885 |
OCLC Number: | 821693400 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2011. |
Awards: | Winner of Winner of the APSA Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize 2012. |
Description: | pages cm. |
Contents: | 1 Introduction -- 2 Coalition Governance and Delegation -- 3 Parliaments as Policing Institutions -- 4 Coalition Governments and Legislative Activity in Five Parliamentary Democracies -- 5 Strong Legislative Institutions and Multiparty Governance -- 6 Weak Legislative Institutions and Multiparty Governance -- 7 Conclusion. |
Series Title: | Comparative politics |
Responsibility: | Lanny W. Martin, Georg Vanberg. |
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Putting parliaments back into parliamentary government, this is the new must-read for everyone interested in coalition governance. This is a thoroughly professional piece of work on an absolutely mainstream topic that shows modern comparative politics at its best. * Professor Mik Laver, New York University * How do political parties in coalition governments control each other? In one of the very best books on parliamentary governance in the last ten years, Martin and Vanberg answer this question by showing how the design of legislative institutions shapes bargaining and compromise across coalition partners. The impressive rigor of the study lays bare the inner workings of coalition politics, and the rich findings underscore the importance of putting the oft-neglectedparliament back at center stage in the study of parliamentary politics. * Professor John Huber, Columbia University * Read more...

