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Comparative Democracy : Policymaking and Governing Coalitions in Europe and Israel /

Luebbert, Gregory M.

Comparative Democracy : Policymaking and Governing Coalitions in Europe and Israel / Gregory M. Luebbert. - 1 online resource (342 p.)

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

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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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780231907040 9780231880077

10.7312/lueb90704 doi


POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics.