{"product_id":"making-and-breaking-governments-cabinets-and-legislatures-in-parliamentary-democracies-paperback-9780521438360","title":"Making and Breaking Governments; Cabinets and Legislatures in Parliamentary Democracies (Paperback) 9780521438360","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMaking and Breaking Governments\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCabinets and Legislatures in Parliamentary Democracies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking and Breaking Governments theorizes on how parties create, maintain, or replace new governments.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Laver (Edited by), Kenneth A. Shepsle (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521438360, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 26 January 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e316 pages, 41 b\/w illus.  37 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.47 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The authors have achieved a brilliant juxtaposition of theoretical rigor with practical application. Theorists, as well as commentators on political elections, can profitably use this book.  It is well worth an analyst's time and effort to learn this model for applications to their respective parliaments.\"    Douglas Wills, Public Choice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMaking and Breaking Governments offers a theoretical argument about how parliamentary parties form governments, deriving from the political and social context of such government formation its generic sequential process. Based on their policy preferences, and their beliefs about what policies will be forthcoming from different conceivable governments, parties behave strategically in the game in which government portfolios are allocated. The authors construct a mathematical model of allocation of ministerial portfolios, formulated as a noncooperative game, and derive equilibria. They also derive a number of empirical hypotheses about outcomes of this game, which they then test with data drawn from most of the postwar European parliamentary democracies. The book concludes with a number of observations about departmentalistic tendencies and centripetal forces in parliamentary regimes.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSeries editors' preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Context: 1. Theory, institutions, and government formation\u003cbr\u003e 2. The social context of government formation\u003cbr\u003e 3. The government formation process\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Model: 4. Government equilibrium\u003cbr\u003e 5. Strong parties\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Empirical Investigations: 6. Two cases: Germany, 1987\u003cbr\u003e Ireland, 1992–3\u003cbr\u003e 7. Theoretical implications, data, and operationalization\u003cbr\u003e 8. Exploring the model: a comparative perspective\u003cbr\u003e 9. A multivariate investigation of portfolio allocation\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Applications, Extensions, and Conclusions: 10. Party systems and cabinet stability\u003cbr\u003e 11. Making the model more realistic\u003cbr\u003e 12. Party politics and administrative reform\u003cbr\u003e 13. Governments and parliaments\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political structures: democracy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political structures: democracy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20structures:%20democracy%20%5BJPHV%5D%22\"\u003eJPHV\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005571387672,"sku":"9780521438360","price":28.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521438360i_6bf0c892-bbb5-4bc2-8b7b-dccb204bf1ea.jpg?v=1691381872","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/making-and-breaking-governments-cabinets-and-legislatures-in-parliamentary-democracies-paperback-9780521438360","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}