Governing in coalitions is a central research field in comparative political science. This book explores how pre-electoral alliances and rejections of potential

This book explores how intra-party politics affects government formation and termination in parliamentary systems, where the norm is the formation of coalition

This book studies how established political parties react to the far left and far right parties that have surged in many democracies worldwide. While some of th

Coalition government is the most frequent form of government in Western Europe, but we have relatively little systematic knowledge about how that form of govern

Political party organizations play large roles in democracies, yet their organizations differ widely, and their statutes change much more frequently than consti