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Government Survival in Parliamentary Democracies
Paul Warwick
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Description for Government Survival in Parliamentary Democracies
Hardback. This book reports the results of quantitative investigation analysing governmental instability in sixteen West European countries. Num Pages: 200 pages, 6 b/w illus. 43 tables. BIC Classification: JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 470.
This book describes the results of a quantitative investigation into one of the central questions of political science: what determines how long governments survive in parliamentary democracies? 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 what is undoubtedly the most comprehensive data set yet assembled on governments, comprising hundreds of variables measured for governments in sixteen West European parliamentary democracies over the entire post-war period ... Read more
This book describes the results of a quantitative investigation into one of the central questions of political science: what determines how long governments survive in parliamentary democracies? 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 what is undoubtedly the most comprehensive data set yet assembled on governments, comprising hundreds of variables measured for governments in sixteen West European parliamentary democracies over the entire post-war period ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521470285
SKU
V9780521470285
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99-1
Reviews for Government Survival in Parliamentary Democracies
"Warwick's book will challenge students of governmental survival to rethink and sharpen their own models. His focus on ideological diversity within governments and economic trends adds useful perspectives." Journal of Politics