Explores how intra-party politics affects government formation and termination in parliamentary systems, where the norm is the formation of coalition governments. This book assumes a diversity of preferences among party members and explores the incentives that give rise to coordinated party behavior at the electoral and legislative levels. Editor(s): Giannetti, Daniela; Benoit, Kenneth. Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 32 black & white tables, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 521. . 2008. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments: 56 (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415462258
ISBN 13: 9780415462259
Binding: Hardcover
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This book explores how intra-party politics affects government formation and termination in parliamentary systems, where the norm is the formation of coalition governments.

The authors look beyond party cohesion and discipline in parliamentary democracies to take a broader view, assuming a diversity of preferences among party members and then exploring the incentives that give rise to coordinated party behaviour at the electoral, legislative and executive levels. The chapters in this book share a common analytical framework, confronting theoretical models of government formation with empirical data, some drawn from cross-national analyses and others from theoretically structured case studies. A distinctive feature of the book is that it explores the impact of intra-party politics at different levels of government: national, local and EU. This offers the opportunity to investigate existing theories of coalition formation in new political settings. Finally, the book offers a range of innovative methods for investigating intra-party politics which, for example, creates a need to estimate the policy positions of individual politicians inside political parties.

This book will be of interest to political scientists, especially scholars involved in research on political parties, parliamentary systems, coalition formation and legislative behaviour, multilevel governance, European and EU politics.

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Daniela Giannetti is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna, Italy.

Kenneth Benoit is Professor of Quantitative Social Sciences in the Political Science Department at Trinity College, Dublin

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