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depending on the regional governing circumstances. Some of the examined traits that boost the stability and efficacy of minority governments may be specific to the Spanish case, such as parliamentary institutions that strongly tip the balance in favour of the government; the fact that all minority governments fell rather short (between 7 and 20 seats) of an absolute majority up to 2015; the relatively open-ended nature of the territorial model; and the tight vertical integration of statewide parties through which they can impose the political exchanges to their regional branches. This notwithstanding, Field convincingly shows how her framework can be applied cross nationally beyond the book’s main case study, in both unitary and decentralized states. All in all, this work stands as a vital contribution to the scholarship of coalition politics and multilevel politics, contributes to key debates in both fields, and provides an insightful and comprehensive framework for furthering their study.