Title	Parliaments and coalitions [electronic resource] : the role of legislative institutions in multiparty governance
Author	Lanny W. Martin, Georg Vanberg
Imprint	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199607884.001.0001
Descript	1 online resource (xi, 174 p.)

This text reveals that parliaments play a much more important role in policymaking in parliamentary systems than is usually acknowledged. Based on an analysis of roughly 1300 government bills across five democracies, it paints a detailed picture of the treatment of government legislation in contemporary parliaments