Coalitions in Parliamentary Government

by Lawrence C. Dodd

For eighty years, students of parliamentary democracy have argued that durable cabinets require majority party government. Lawrence Dodd challenges this widely held belief and offers in its place a revisionist interpretation based on contemporary game theory. He argues for a fundamental alteration in existing conceptions of the relationship between party systems and parliamentary government. The author notes that cabinet durability depends on the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691075646
• ISBN13: 9780691075648
• Release Date: July 1976
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.8"