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Party Policy and Government Coalitions
by Ian Budge, M.J. Laver, Michael Laver
Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 1992 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-333-55617-7, ISBN: 0-333-55617-8

"Coalitions are the commonest kind of democratic government, occurring frequently in most countries of western Europe. It is usually assumed that political parties came together in a government coalition because they agree already, or can reach an agreement, on the policy it should pursue. This book examines this idea using evidence from party election programmes and government programmes. It demonstrates that party policies do influence ..."






The Politics of Private Desires. The Guide to the Politics of Rational Choice
by Michael J. Laver
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1981 by Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-022316-3, ISBN: 0-14-022316-9






Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai(Reprint)
Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550-1700 (Perspectives on the Global Past)
by Tonio Andrade, Xing Hang, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, Professor Robert J. Antony, Dr. Robert K. Batchelor, Dr. Leonard Blusse, Professor Anna Busquets, Dr. Patrizia Carioti, Dr. Weichung Cheng, Dr. Adam Clulow, Dr. Dahpon D. Ho, Dr. Peter Kang, Michael Laver, Cheng-Heng Lu, Dr. Mark Ravina, Dr. Peter D. Shapinsky, Birgit Tremml-Werner, John E. Wills
Paperback, 396 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Hawaii Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-8149-8, ISBN: 0-8248-8149-4

"Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth century (1550 to 1700), the velocity and scale of commerce increased dramatically. Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese smugglers and pirat ..."






Playing Politics
(Pelican books)
by Michael J. Laver
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1981 by Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-022228-9, ISBN: 0-14-022228-6






Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai(1st Edition)
Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700 (Perspectives on the Global Past)
by Tonio Andrade, Xing Hang, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, Professor Robert J. Antony, Dr. Robert K. Batchelor, Dr. Leonard Blusse, Professor Anna Busquets, Dr. Patrizia Carioti, Dr. Weichung Cheng, Dr. Adam Clulow, Dr. Dahpon D. Ho, Dr. Peter Kang, Michael Laver, Cheng-Heng Lu, Dr. Mark Ravina, Dr. Peter D. Shapinsky, Birgit Tremml-Werner, John E. Wills
Hardcover, 386 Pages, Published 2016 by Univ Of Hawaii Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-5276-4, ISBN: 0-8248-5276-1

"Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the contested and fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for centuries, but it was during the long seventeenth century, from 1550 to 1700, that the velocity and scale of commerce began to increase dramatically. Chinese, Japane ..."






The Structure and Function of Ryanodine Receptors
by Rebecca Sitsapesan, Alan J. Williams, Wei Feng, Michael Fill, Wah Chiu, Phillip Williams, Judith A. Airey, D. Sitsapesan, H. H. Valdivia, Donald M. Bers, Georgina B. Gurrola, S. L. Hamilton, Rong He, Graham D. Lamb, Derek R. Laver, Charles Louis, Gerhard Meissner, Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, James R. Mickelson, Takashi Murayama, Y. Ogawa, Elena V. Orlova, I. I. Serysheva, Varda Shoshan-Barmatz, Marin Van Heel, Patricio Velez, W. Welch, Imperial College Press
Hardcover, 450 Pages, Published 1998 by World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN-13: 978-1-86094-145-0, ISBN: 1-86094-145-1






Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Government(Updated)
(Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
by Michael Laver, Kenneth A. Shepsle, Randall Calvert, Thrainn Eggertsson
Paperback, 318 Pages, Published 1994 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-43837-7, ISBN: 0-521-43837-3

"One of the key constitutional features of a parliamentary democracy is that the political executive, or cabinet, derives its mandate from - and is politically responsible to - the legislature. What makes a parliamentary democracy democratic is that, once a legislative election has been held, the new legislature has the power to dismiss the incumbent executive and replace it with a new one. Moreover, it sits essentially as a court, passi ..."






Making and Breaking Governments(1st Edition)
Cabinets and Legislatures in Parliamentary Democracies (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
by Michael Laver, Kenneth A. Shepsle, Randall Calvert, Thrainn Eggertsson, Cambridge University Press
Hardcover, 316 Pages, Published 1996 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-43245-0, ISBN: 0-521-43245-6

"Making and Breaking Governments offers a theoretical argument about how parliamentary parties form governments, deriving from the political and social context of such government formation its generic sequential process. Based on their policy preferences, and their beliefs about what policies will be forthcoming from different conceivable governments, parties behave strategically in the game in which government portfolios are allocated. ..."






Party Competition
An Agent-Based Model (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
by Michael Laver, Ernest Sergenti
Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2011 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-13904-3, ISBN: 0-691-13904-0

"Party competition for votes in free and fair elections involves complex interactions by multiple actors in political landscapes that are continuously evolving, yet classical theoretical approaches to the subject leave many important questions unanswered. Here Michael Laver and Ernest Sergenti offer the first comprehensive treatment of party competition using the computational techniques of agent-based modeling. This exciting new technol ..."






Policy and Party Competition(1st Edition)
by William Ben Hunt, Michael J. Laver
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1992 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-90219-9, ISBN: 0-415-90219-3

"Policy and Party Competition offers both a theoretical and empirical examination of the subject. It opens with a theoretical discussion of the nature of political parties, policies and competition. Taking the view that the preferences of the electorate are the logical and ideological starting points of party competition, Laver and Hunt examine the structure of policy preferences, patterns in party systems, parameters of party competitio ..."






Invitation Ser.
Invitation to Politics
by Michael J. Laver
266 Pages, Published 1983 by M. Robertson
ISBN-13: 978-0-85520-573-7, ISBN: 0-85520-573-3

"In a world where altruism and expediency jostle each other, where politics is too often treated as a dismal science, Michael Laver offers a lifeline to the baffled reader and the jargon-weary student."






The Crime Game
by Michael J. Laver
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1982 by Blackwell Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-85520-561-4, ISBN: 0-85520-561-X






Routledge Research in Comparative Politics Ser.
Party Policy in Modern Democracies
by Kenneth Benoit, Michael Laver
304 Pages, Published 2006 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-20618-6, ISBN: 1-134-20618-6

"... and European integrationin east and west: different structure, some causality.” Comparative Political Studies 39(2): 155–175. Meyer, Mary A.and Jane M. Booker (2001). Elicitingand Analyzing Expert Judgment: A Practical Guide, AsaSiamSeries onStatistics and Applied Probability. Philadelphia,PA: Society forIndustrial and Applied Mathematics and American Statistical Association. Meyer, Mary A. Kenneth B. Butterfield, William S. Mu ..."






Multiparty Government(Updated)
The Politics of Coalition in Europe (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
by Michael Laver, Norman Schofield
Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Michigan Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-472-08562-0, ISBN: 0-472-08562-X

"The politics of coalition--the very heart of the political process in most European countries--can be analyzed either theoretically or empirically. Multiparty Government reconciles these approaches. It gives students of European politics access to the insights of contemporary theory while applying it to an analysis of real-world coalition politics.Michael Laver and Norman Schofield examine five basic themes: the identity and motivation ..."






How Ireland Voted in 1992(Illustrated)
by Michael Gallagher, Michael Laver
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1993 by Blackwater Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-86121-408-2, ISBN: 0-86121-408-0

"Occ: medical doctor. Age: 43. First elected to Ddil: 1989. McDowell ... McGrath, Paul (FG (Westmeath). Occ: teacher. Age: 44. First elected to Ddil: 1989. ... Moynihan-Cronin, Breeda (Lab, Kerry S). Occ: secretary. Age: 39. First elected to Ddil: ..."






The Governance Cycle in Parliamentary Democracies
A Computational Social Science Approach (Paperback)
by Scott De Marchi, Michael Laver
Paperback, Published 2023 by Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom
ISBN-13: 978-1-00-931548-7, ISBN: 1-00-931548-X






Agent-Based Models of Social Life
Fundamentals
by Michael Laver
Published 2020 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-84744-5, ISBN: 1-108-84744-7

"... Nicolás Idrobo and Rocío Titiunik Agent-Based Models of Social Life: Fundamentals Michael Laver Agent-Based Models of Polarization and Ethnocentrism Michael Laver A full series listing is available at: www.cambridge.org/QCMSS."






The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan
Gift Giving and Diplomacy
by Michael Laver
184 Pages, Published 2020 by Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-12605-3, ISBN: 1-350-12605-5

"In July 1654, the chief merchant of the Dutch East India Company in Japan noted in his diary that the bugyō (governor) of the city of ... It has been well established that gifts play an important part in trade and diplomacy, and the history of presenting gifts for political or ... itself.4 I don't think it too far-fetched to say that gift -giving is a fundamental part of what it is to be human and to live in human society."






The Silk Road
Interwoven History, Volume 1
by Mariko Namba Walter, Tim Williams, Leonardo Gregoratti, Rachel Mairs, Eivind Heldaas Seland, Ulrike-Christiane Lintz, Djamilya Kurbanova, Borbla Obrusnszky, Bin Yang, Michael Laver, Gerald Roche
Hardcover, 375 Pages, Published 2014 by Cambridge Institutes Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9910428-0-7, ISBN: 0-9910428-0-8

"The Silk Road: Interwoven History, Volume 1, examines the history of the Silk Road from antiquity to modern times in different regions with an emphasis on the cultural contacts between East and West."






Comparative Politics NYU Textbook Spring 2012
by Michael Laver
Published 2012 by The Mcgraw Hill Companies
ISBN-13: 978-1-121-37058-6, ISBN: 1-121-37058-6



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