How does cabinet instability affect political performance? Portfolio volatility and health care cost containment in parliamentary democracies

American Political Science Review

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 577-591

  Huber, John D ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 0032220681     PISSN: 00030554     EISSN: 15375943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2585482     Document Type: Article

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