Comparative Democracy : Policymaking and Governing Coalitions in Europe and Israel / Gregory M. Luebbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luebbert, Gregory M., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1986]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Develop several models of democratic politics and a model of party leadership behavior by scrutinizing cases of government formation in the Weimar Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, Iceland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Israel, and Italy to better understand how party coalitions are formed and how they govern within democracies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Governing Coalitions and Democratic Politics

Part One. Policymaking and Governing Coalitions

Chapter One: Varieties of Multiparty Democracies

Chapter Two: Policymaking and the Imperatives of Party Leadership

Chapter Three: Party Leaders and Governing Coalitions

Part Two. Governing Coalitions in Four Types of Democracies

Chapter Four: Israel

Chapter Five: Denmark

Chapter Six: Finland

Chapter Seven: Finland as an Unconsolidated Democracy, 1966-1982

Chapter Eight: Conclusions

Appendix A: Methodological Notes

Appendix B: Case Summaries for Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Italy

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231880077

0231880073

OCLC:

1100441597