TY - BOOK AU - Moury,Catherine TI - Coalition government and party mandate : how coalition agreements constrain ministerial action T2 - Routledge research on social and political elites SN - 9780415601610 U1 - 352.293094 22 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Cabinet officers KW - Europe KW - Case studies KW - Coalition governments KW - Comparative government N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Theorizing coalition agreements -- Methodological choices -- Case study one: Germany (by Catherine Moury and Mark Ferguson) -- Case study two: Belgium -- Case study three: the Netherlands (by Catherine Moury and Arco Timmermans) -- Case study four: Italy -- Coalition agreements and cabinet decision-making in four countries -- Explaining variation across cases: preliminary findings -- Conclusion ER -