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Politics and policy in democratic Spain : no longer different?
1. Spain Politics and government 20th century
I. Heywood, Paul
320.946
ISBN 978-1-135-23149-1 (ePub)
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Politics and policy in democratic Spain no longer different? / edited by Paul Heywood
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Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-7146-4910-4 (hardbound). ISBN 0-7146-4467-6 (pbk.)
1. Democracy Spain. 2. Democratization Spain. 3. Spain Politics and government 1975 I. Heywood, Paul.
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Paloma Aguilar
Elas Daz
Josep M. Colomer
Jos Ramn Montero
Fernando Jimnez
Paul Heywood
Joaquim M. Molins
and Alex Casademunt
Beln Barreiro
Raj S. Chari
Ana Rico,
Pablo Gonzlez
and Marta Fraile
Vctor Prez-Daz
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Book Reviews
Party and Government: An Inquiry into the Relationship Between Governments and Supporting Parties in Liberal Democracies. Edited by JEAN BLONDEL and MAURIZIO COTTA. London: Macmillan, 1996. Pp.x + 284, biblio., index. 35 ISBN O-333-61660-X.
This is the latest in a series of books about cabinet government in Western Europe that has been produced by a group of scholars associated with the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and co-ordinated around Jean Blondel. While there has been some turnover from book to book, names such as Rudi Andeweg, Andr-Paul Frognier, Wolfgang Mller, Jaako Nousiainen, and Lieven de Winter will be familiar to all who have taken an interest in this enterprise over the years.
As the title suggests very clearly, the aspect of cabinet government upon which this particular book concentrates is the relationship between governments and the parties that support them. As with previous books in the series, there is no overweening theory of the relationship under investigation. The clear although never very explicitly stated underlying assumption in this is that the profession is still at what might be thought of as a pre-theoretical or data-gathering phase in this field, and that the prime need is for systematic description rather than rigorous hypothesis testing.