Parliaments and Coalitions - Martin, Lanny W. (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Rice University) a Vanberg, Georg (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Parliaments and Coalitions reveals that parliaments play a much more important role in policymaking in parliamentary systems than is usually acknowledged. Based on an analysis of roughly 1,300 government bills across five democracies the book paints a detailed picture of the treatment of government legislation in contemporary parliaments.