Government Survival in Parliamentary Democracies

by Paul V. Warwick

Book Overview

A highly puzzling phenomena in politics is why some parliamentary democracies, such as Britain, manage to produce highly durable governments, whereas others, such as Italy, experience governmental instability. This book reports the results of a quantitative investigation of the issue, using an innovative statistical methodology and a new data set covering sixteen West European countries over the entire postwar period. The results fundamentally challenge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521038316
• ISBN13: 9780521038317
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"