Making and Breaking Governments

Making and Breaking Governments
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 319
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ISBN-10 : 9780521432450
ISBN-13 : 0521432456
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Book Synopsis Making and Breaking Governments by : Michael Laver

Download or read book Making and Breaking Governments written by Michael Laver and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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