Overview
- Authors:
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Jaap Woldendorp
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Department of Political Science and Government Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Hans Keman
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Department of Political Science and Government Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Ian Budge
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Department of Government, Essex University, England
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Table of contents (54 chapters)
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Composition-Duration-Personnel of Party Government by Country (1945–1998)
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- Jaap Woldendorp, Hans Keman, Ian Budge
Pages 440-446
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- Jaap Woldendorp, Hans Keman, Ian Budge
Pages 447-453
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- Jaap Woldendorp, Hans Keman, Ian Budge
Pages 454-459
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- Jaap Woldendorp, Hans Keman, Ian Budge
Pages 460-463
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- Jaap Woldendorp, Hans Keman, Ian Budge
Pages 464-466
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- Jaap Woldendorp, Hans Keman, Ian Budge
Pages 467-473
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- Jaap Woldendorp, Hans Keman, Ian Budge
Pages 474-476
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- Jaap Woldendorp, Hans Keman, Ian Budge
Pages 477-480
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- Jaap Woldendorp, Hans Keman, Ian Budge
Pages 481-485
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- Jaap Woldendorp, Hans Keman, Ian Budge
Pages 486-499
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- Jaap Woldendorp, Hans Keman, Ian Budge
Pages 500-511
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- Jaap Woldendorp, Hans Keman, Ian Budge
Pages 512-518
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- Jaap Woldendorp, Hans Keman, Ian Budge
Pages 519-545
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- Jaap Woldendorp, Hans Keman, Ian Budge
Pages 546-557
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- Jaap Woldendorp, Hans Keman, Ian Budge
Pages 558-564
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- Jaap Woldendorp, Hans Keman, Ian Budge
Pages 565-574
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Back Matter
Pages 575-580
About this book
Since the 1980s, political scientists have developed a renewed interest in the study of political institutions, based on the assumption that "institutions matter" -that is, that formal governmental institutions and constitutional-legal rules (as well as informal institutions like parties and interest groups) are crucial determinants of the shape of politics and policy outcomes. In this respect, the "new institutionalism" resembles the "old institutionalism" of pre-behaviorist days, but the crucial difference between the two is that the new institutionalists are committed to systematic empirical testing of their hypotheses, at least in principle. In practice, however, especially in compara tive analyses, this goal has often been frustrated by the lack of reliable data for a large number of countries. Researchers have therefore usually been limited to testing their hypotheses with modest data sets collected for their own particular purposes. Of all of the political institutions, the executive branch of the government is by far the most important; it can be regarded as the irreducible core of government and the principal embodiment of political authority with specific powers that are not lodged elsewhere in the political system. Almost all countries in the world, and certainly all modem democracies, have an executive body called "government", "cabinet", or "administration" (as in the term "the Clinton administration") that has the main responsibility for running the country's public affairs.