عنوان

Government survival in parliamentary democracies /

(Number (ISBN

0521470285

(Number (ISBN

9780521470285

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b721049

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Government survival in parliamentary democracies /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Paul V. Warwick.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York, NY, USA :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1994.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 182 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-177) and index.

Text of Note

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.

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Government survival is important because it constitutes an essential component of the overall functioning of parliamentary democracies. It is also closely associated with the introduction to the discipline of event history analysis, a highly promising statistical methodology. The investigation utilizes this methodology on the most comprehensive data set yet assembled on governments, comprising hundreds of variables measured for sixteen West European parliamentary democracies over the entire postwar period to 1989. The results fundamentally challenge the central thread of current theorizing on government survival and point to an alternative conceptualization of the relationship among governments, parties, and voters. Within this rich statistical portrait the author attempts, ultimately, to account for the two faces of parliamentary government.

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Why do some parliamentary democracies, such as Britain, manage to produce highly durable governments, whereas others, such as Italy, are marked by instability? While Britain's "Westminster model" garners public confidence in and respect for the model, the contrasting record of what is essentially the same regime model in Italy more often elicits criticism and ridicule. Through a wide-ranging quantitative investigation, this book seeks to unravel the puzzling, Janus-faced nature of parliamentary democracy and answer a central question of contemporary political science: what determines how long governments survive in parliamentary democracies?

Cabinet system-- Europe.

No confidence motions-- Europe.

89.35 democracy.

Cabinet system-- Europe.

Cabinet system.

Democracia.

Kabinetten (politiek)

No confidence motions-- Europe.

No confidence motions.

Parlamentarismo.

Parlementaire democratie.

Politica (europa)

Europe.

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coll1

Number

321.0843(4)

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Edition

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Warwick, Paul.

Date of Transaction

20201208124001.0

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