Coalition Agreements as Control Devices

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Coalition Agreements as Control Devices is written by Heike Klüver and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0192899910 (ISBN 10) and 9780192899910 (ISBN 13).

This book explores why political parties negotiate lengthy coalition contracts, and argues that these agreements are important control devices that allow coalition parties to keep their partners in line. The authors draw on a large dataset of 229 coalition agreements negotiated in 24 Western and Eastern European countries between 1945 and 2015.