TY - BOOK ID - 136604495 TI - Parties and Democracy: Coalition Formation and Government Functioning in Twenty States AU - Budge, Ian AU - Keman, Hans PY - 1990 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Coalition governments KW - Political parties KW - Democracy. KW - Comparative government. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136604495 AB - This text studies the actual behaviour of some 400 governments in 20 post-World War II democracies, including those of Western Europe, Australia, Israel, Japan and New Zealand. It concludes that parties do in fact function in accordance with modern democratic theory. ER -