This book explores how intra-party politics affects government formation and termination in parliamentary systems, where the norm is the formation of coalition

Coalitions are the commonest kind of democratic government, occurring frequently in most countries of western Europe. It is usually assumed that political parti

This book explores how intra-party politics affects government formation and termination in parliamentary systems, where the norm is the formation of coalition

This book examines the behaviour of political parties in situations where they experience conflict between two or more important objectives.

The Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies offers a state-of-the-art assessment of the functioning of political representation in liberal d