By Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller, Torbjörn Bergman
This is often the main bold and accomplished account of the associations of democratic delegation in West eu parliamentary democracies up to now. It presents an remarkable cross-national research of West eu political associations from 1945 till the current day, in addition to situating glossy parliamentary democracy within the context of fixing political events and the becoming significance of the ecu Union.
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465–6) However, these merits of parliamentarism ‘are balanced by serious defects’ (Bryce 1921: ii. 466), among which Bryce counts excessive partisanship and erratic policy making. 11 Even if there are no important issues of policy before the nation there are always the Offices to be fought for. One party holds them, the other desires them, and the conflict is unending, for immediately after a defeat the beaten party begins its campaign to dislodge the victors’ (Bryce 1921: ii. 466). 10 Obviously, Bryce did not consider minority governments, which account for 37% of Western European governments in the 1945–99 period (Müller and Strøm 2000: 561).
By this criterion, the only West European country (apart from some mini-states) that during 2003 fails to enter our sample is Switzerland. Of course, by casting our net so widely, we are including a set of political systems that are dissimilar in many ways. Thus, we are including majoritarian as well as consensus democracies (Lijphart 1999), systems with few or many veto players (Tsebelis 1995, 2002), systems with unrestricted versus highly restrictive dissolution powers (Strøm and Swindle 2002), and systems with single-member district as well as proportional electoral systems (Cox 1997).
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