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Lijphart, A. (2012). Patterns of Democracy. Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries. New Haven, CT: Yale U.P.

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• TITLE: Political Parties, Coalitions and Democracy

  AUTHORS: Jan-Erik Lane, Alexander M. Preker

  KEYWORDS: Democracies, Coalitions, Two German States, Voting Power, Weber on the Political Party

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Political Science, Vol.8 No.4, October 25, 2018

  ABSTRACT: The often heard call for other forms of democracy than the adversarial type is not realistic. MWCs and MSCs offer a peaceful mechanism for voting to handle social conflicts by means of political parties under the constraints of rule of law and the principal-agent interaction. Switzerland is the only consociational state today, but operating under heavy referenda restraints.