Government survival in parliamentary democracies /
Paul V. Warwick.
- Cambridge ;;New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994
- xii, 182 p. : ill. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-177) and index.
Why do some parliamentary democracies, such as Britain, manage to produce highly durable governments, whereas others, such as Italy, are marked by instability? While Britain's "Westminster model" garners public confidence in and respect for the model, the contrasting record of what is essentially the same regime model in Italy more often elicits criticism and ridicule. Through a wide-ranging quantitative