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Presidentialization and the politics of coalition: lessons from Germany and Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2015

Thomas Poguntke  and
Paul Webb
Thomas Poguntke
Affiliation:
Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany
Paul Webb*
Affiliation:
Department of Politics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
*
*E-mails: poguntke@hhu.de, p.webb@sussex.ac.uk
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presidentializationpersonalizationcoalition politics
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Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica , Volume 45 , Special Issue 3: The Personal Leader in Contemporary Party Politics , November 2015 , pp. 249 - 275
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