The costs of coalition / Carol Mershon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mershon, Carol.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coalition governments.

Physical Description:

xvi, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

This book aims to understand and explain who governs, and for how long, under the institution of parliamentary democracy. In the process, it investigates the nature of political scientists' knowledge of coalitional behavior and how to advance it.

Contents:

Part 1. The Puzzle, Its Pieces, and a Solution

1. How Can Governments Fall at Low Cost? 1

2. Costs in Coalition Theories 8

3. Explaining Variations in the Costs of Coalition 21

Part 2. Within-Nation Comparisons: The Italian Anomaly

4. The Pursuit of Cost-Reduction Strategies 33

5. Costs and Outcomes in Italian Coalition Politics 56

Part 3. Cross-National Comparisons

6. The Bases for Comparison: Variations in Institutions and Policy Space 91

7. The Costs of Building Coalitions 99

8. The Costs of Breaking Coalitions 143

Appendix B. Scope of Data Sets in Coalition Studies 197

Appendix C. Governments Included in This Study 201

Appendix D. Data Sources 217

Appendix E. Subsets of Data in This Database 221

Appendix F. Evidence on Feedback Effects 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-289) and index.

ISBN:

0804740836

OCLC:

48662470