Party Government in the New Europe

The study of Party Government is a key theme in the study of Comparative Politics. Party Government in the New Europe presents comparative analyses of the process of party governance, from formation and duration to performance. It compares both the developments in the Eastern and Western part of Europe (the 'new' Europe) and uses different types of methods and data are used for comparative analysis. The life and the performance of party government in European parliamentary democracies appear to have become more and more volatile, publicly contested and are sometimes considered as jeopardizing the democratic quality of the polity. This leads to a need to reconsider existing approaches to the study of Party Government, and a need to conduct empirical examination by means of systematic comparative analysis.Party Government in the New Europe will be of interest to students and scholars of Comparative Politics, Government and European Politics.