A unified model of cabinet dissolution in parliamentary democracies
The literature on Cabinet duration is split between two apparently irreconcilable positions. The attributes theorists seek to explain cabinet system duration as a fixed function of measured explanatory variables, while the events process theorists model cabinet durations as a product of purely stochastic processes. In this paper the authors build a unified statistical model that combines the insights of these previously distinct approaches. This unified model is also generalized and all previous models by including (1) a stochastic component that takes into account the censoring that occurs as a result of governments lasting to the vicinity of the maximum constitutional inter election period, (2) a systema