| Abstract: | The ‘events approach’ claims for a new explanation of cabinet termination and cabinet survival in parliamentary democracies. The failure of the universal laws set by the culturalist approach and the party system approach raised the question whether one should search for random or probabilistic events of cabinet termination and survival. It is argued that the events approach fails both for the epistemological weakness of its premises and for the poverty of its empirical conclusions. A reappraisal of theoretical enterprise is advanced and a new research perspective is sketched, which requires a more careful treatment of the non‐uniform institutional features of parliamentary democracies. |
