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050 00 $aJN94.A63$bW37 1995
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100 1 $aWarwick, Paul.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2004013136
245 10 $aGovernment survival in parliamentary democracies /$cPaul V. Warwick.
260 $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York, NY, USA :$bCambridge University Press,$c1994.
263 $a9501
300 $axii, 182 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [174]-177) and index.
505 0 $a1. Introduction: the government survival debates -- 2. The quantitative study of government survival -- 3. Basic attributes and government survival -- 4. The role of ideology -- 5. Economic conditions and government survival -- 6. The underlying trend in government survival -- 7. Model adequacy -- 8. Conclusion: an alternative perspective on government survival -- Appendix: a codebook of variables used in this study.
520 $aWhy do some parliamentary democracies, such as Britain, manage to produce highly durable governments, whereas others, such as Italy, are marked by instability? While Britain's "Westminster model" garners public confidence in and respect for the model, the contrasting record of what is essentially the same regime model in Italy more often elicits criticism and ridicule.
520 8 $aThrough a wide-ranging quantitative investigation, this book seeks to unravel the puzzling, Janus-faced nature of parliamentary democracy and answer a central question of contemporary political science: what determines how long governments survive in parliamentary democracies?
520 8 $aGovernment survival is important because it constitutes an essential component of the overall functioning of parliamentary democracies. It is also closely associated with the introduction to the discipline of event history analysis, a highly promising statistical methodology.
520 8 $aThe investigation utilizes this methodology on the most comprehensive data set yet assembled on governments, comprising hundreds of variables measured for sixteen West European parliamentary democracies over the entire postwar period to 1989. The results fundamentally challenge the central thread of current theorizing on government survival and point to an alternative conceptualization of the relationship among governments, parties, and voters.
520 8 $aWithin this rich statistical portrait the author attempts, ultimately, to account for the two faces of parliamentary government.
650 0 $aCabinet system$zEurope.
650 0 $aNo confidence motions$zEurope.
852 00 $bleh$hJN94.A63$iW37 1994