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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      19 September 2009
      27 January 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511528132
      9780521470285
      9780521038317
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511528132
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.422kg, 200 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.309kg, 200 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Politics: General Interest, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    This book describes the results of a quantitative investigation into one of the central questions of political science: what determines how long governments survive in parliamentary democracies? Government 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. The investigation utilizes this methodology on what is undoubtedly the most comprehensive data set yet assembled on governments, comprising hundreds of variables measured for governments in sixteen West European parliamentary democracies over the entire post-war period to 1989. The results fundamentally challenge the central thread of theorizing on government survival and point to an alternative conceptualization of the relationship among governments, parties and voters.

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    "Warwick's book will challenge students of governmental survival to rethink and sharpen their own models. His focus on ideological diversity within governments and economic trends adds useful perspectives." Journal of Politics

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