TY - BOOK AU - Warwick, Paul. TI - Government survival in parliamentary democracies SN - 0521470285;9780521470285 U1 - 321.8/043/094 PY - 1994/// CY - Cambridge ;;New York, NY, USA PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Cabinet system;No confidence motions N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-177) and index N2 - 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 ER -