HUBER, John D <br/><br/>
How does cabinet instability affect political performance? Portfolio volatility and health care cost containment in parliamentary democracies 

 - New York, NY :  Cambridge University Press,  September 1998 
<br/><br/> Does cabinet instability influence political performance in parliamentary democracies? If so, how does this occur? Previous research does not answer these questions because existing studies do not systematically examine instability as an explanatory variable. Instead, scholars have focused principally on instability as the variable to be explained (e.g., Laver and Schofield 1990; Powell 1982; Warwick 1979, 1994).