Learning to Govern Together in Representative Democracy by Th... - 9780198959014

Learning to Govern Together in Representative DemocracyThe Dynamics of Cooperation and Competition in Coalition Governance\nAuthor(s): Thomas Knig, Xiao Lu, Thiago N. Silva\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780198959014, 978-0198959014\nSynopsis\nLearning to Govern Together in Representative Democracy introduces a dynamic theory on coalition governance and circular regression for studying joint policy-making of coalition parties, which considers the pro tempore nature of representative democracy. Because representative democracy limits the time to govern, the implementation of a common policy agenda is temporarily constrained. In parliamentary democracies, in which coalition governance is the rule, this temporal constraint demands that coalition parties overcome their collective action problems in joint policy-making within a term. \n\nThis book argues that the cooperative and competitive incentives of c.