Party Policy and Government Coalitions
Description
Coalitions are the commonest kind of democratic government, occurring frequently in most countries of Western Europe. It is usually assumed that political parties came together in a government coalition because they agree already, or can manage to reach an agreement, on the policy it should pursue. This book checks this idea out, in 12 countries of Western Europe plus Israel, using evidence from party election programmes and government programmes. It demonstrates that party policies do influence government programmes, but not to the extent they would if policy-agreement were the sole basis of coalition.
Keywords
POLITICAL PARTIES_EUROPECOALITION GOVERNMENTS
1992Book
Author(s)Michael Laver, Ian Budge
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN9780333556177
LanguageEnglish
