Coalitions In Parliamentary Government

Author : L. Dodd
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400868070

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Coalitions in Parliamentary Government by L. Dodd Pdf

For eighty years, students of parliamentary democracy have argued that durable cabinets require majority party government. Lawrence Dodd challenges this widely held belief and offers in its place a revisionist interpretation based on contemporary game theory. He argues for a fundamental alteration in existing conceptions of the relationship between party systems and parliamentary government. The author notes that cabinet durability depends on the coalitional status of the party or parties that form the cabinet. This status is created by the fractionalization, instability, and polarization that characterize the parliamentary party system. Cabinets of minimum winning status are likely to endure; as they depart from minimum winning status, their durability should decrease. Hypotheses derived from the author's theory arc examined against the experience of seventeen Western nations from 1918 to 1974. Making extensive use of quantitative analysis, the author compares behavioral patterns in multiparty and majority party parliaments, contrasts interwar and postwar parliaments, and examines the consistency of key behavioral patterns according to country. He concludes that a key to durable government is the minimum winning status of the cabinet, which may be attained in multiparty or majority party parliaments. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Lanny W. Martin,Georg Vanberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199607884

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Parliaments and Coalitions by Lanny W. Martin,Georg Vanberg Pdf

Argues that in coalition governments, the norm in most parliamentary democracies, strong legislative institutions play a critical role in allowing parties to deal with the electoral competition and the necessity of delegating authority to ministers affiliated with specific parties which threaten compromise agreements.

Author : Lawrence C. Dodd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783793316

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Coalitions in Parliamentary Government by Lawrence C. Dodd Pdf

Author : Matt Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429748776

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Coalition Government as a Reflection of a Nation’s Politics and Society by Matt Evans Pdf

Through examination of parliamentary governments in twelve countries, this book demonstrates the ways in which study of the parties in governing coalitions, and their parliamentary opposition, provides insight into numerous aspects of countries’ cultural values, societal schisms, and the issues of greatest contention among their people. Each chapter analyses the political parties in a different country’s parliament and illustrates how they represent the country’s competing interests, social divisions, and public policy debates. Coalition and opposition parties are also shown to reflect each country’s: political institutions; political actors; political culture; and societal, geographic, and ideological rifts. In many of the countries, changes in the constellation of parties in government are emblematic of important political, social, and economic changes. This book will be essential reading for students of parliamentary government, political parties, electoral politics, and, more broadly, comparative politics.

Author : Lawrence C. Dodd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Cabinet system
ISBN : OCLC:433668692

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Party Coalitions and Parliamentary Government by Lawrence C. Dodd Pdf

Author : Michael Laver,Norman Schofield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4967672

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Multiparty Government by Michael Laver,Norman Schofield Pdf

The politics of coalition is inherent in the political process of most European countries. Coalition may be analyzed either theoretically or empirically; this study reconciles both approaches. Providing insight into contemporary coalition theory and placing it in the context of coalition politics, this work examines five basic themes: the identity and motivation of those involved in coalition politics; the eventual membership of coalitions; durability; payoffs; and the impact of constitutional, behavioral, and historical constraints on the process of coalition bargaining.

Author : Adrián Albala,Josep Maria Reniu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319751009

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Coalition Politics and Federalism by Adrián Albala,Josep Maria Reniu Pdf

This book analyzes the verticalization of coalition cabinets from the national to the sub-national level. Presenting case studies for countries with federal systems of government, such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, and India, as well as those focusing on states with hybrid systems of government, such as Italy, the contributors analyze multilevel government formation processes to identify vertical congruence between national and sub-national coalitions. The book also examines various factors affecting the degree of congruence of political coalitions, such as the degree of decentralization, federalization and institutionalization of political systems, as well as cleavage structure. This book will be a valuable resource for all scholars interested in coalition politics, as well as for politicians and practitioners in government and parliament.

Author : Wolfgang C. Müller,Kaare Strom
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198297610

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Coalition Governments in Western Europe by Wolfgang C. Müller,Kaare Strom Pdf

This volume presents a detailed empirical analysis based on a large cross-national data collection, covering the entire post-war period from 1945 to 1999.

Author : Daniela Giannetti,Kenneth Benoit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134042876

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Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments by Daniela Giannetti,Kenneth Benoit Pdf

This book explores how intra-party politics affects government formation and termination in parliamentary systems, where the norm is the formation of coalition governments. The authors look beyond party cohesion and discipline in parliamentary democracies to take a broader view, assuming a diversity of preferences among party members and then exploring the incentives that give rise to coordinated party behaviour at the electoral, legislative and executive levels. The chapters in this book share a common analytical framework, confronting theoretical models of government formation with empirical data, some drawn from cross-national analyses and others from theoretically structured case studies. A distinctive feature of the book is that it explores the impact of intra-party politics at different levels of government: national, local and EU. This offers the opportunity to investigate existing theories of coalition formation in new political settings. Finally, the book offers a range of innovative methods for investigating intra-party politics which, for example, creates a need to estimate the policy positions of individual politicians inside political parties. This book will be of interest to political scientists, especially scholars involved in research on political parties, parliamentary systems, coalition formation and legislative behaviour, multilevel governance, European and EU politics.

Author : Mats Sjölin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : NWU:35556026031724

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Coalition Politics and Parliamentary Power by Mats Sjölin Pdf

Author : Torbjörn Bergman,Hanna Back,Johan Hellström
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198868484

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Coalition Governance in Western Europe by Torbjörn Bergman,Hanna Back,Johan Hellström Pdf

This book studies such governments, covering the full life-cycle of coalitions from the formation of party alliances before elections to coalition formation after elections.

Author : Matt Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032085843

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Coalition Government as a Reflection of a Nation's Politics and Society by Matt Evans Pdf

Through examination of parliamentary governments in twelve countries, this book demonstrates the ways in which study of the parties in governing coalitions, and their parliamentary opposition, provides insight into numerous aspects of countries' cultural values, societal schisms, and the issues of greatest contention among their people. Each chapter analyses the political parties in a different country's parliament and illustrates how they represent the country's competing interests, social divisions, and public policy debates. Coalition and opposition parties are also shown to reflect each country's: political institutions; political actors; political culture; and societal, geographic, and ideological rifts. In many of the countries, changes in the constellation of parties in government are emblematic of important political, social, and economic changes. This book will be essential reading for students of parliamentary government, political parties, electoral politics, and, more broadly, comparative politics.

Author : Ian Budge,M.J. Laver
Publisher : Springer
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349223688

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Party Policy and Government Coalitions by Ian Budge,M.J. Laver Pdf

Coalitions are the commonest kind of democratic government, occurring frequently in most countries of western Europe. It is usually assumed that political parties came together in a government coalition because they agree already, or can reach an agreement, on the policy it should pursue. This book examines this idea using evidence from party election programmes and government programmes. It demonstrates that party policies do influence government programmes, but not to the extent they would if policy-agreement were the sole basis of coalition.

Author : Jose Antonio Cheibub
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521542448

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Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy by Jose Antonio Cheibub Pdf

This book questions the reasons why presidential democracies more likely to break down than parliamentary ones.

Author : Torbjörn Bergman,Gabriella Ilonszki,Wolfgang C. Müller
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198844372

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Coalition Governance in Central Eastern Europe by Torbjörn Bergman,Gabriella Ilonszki,Wolfgang C. Müller Pdf

Coalition government among different political parties is the way most European democracies are governed. Traditionally, the study of coalition politics has been focused on Western Europe. Coalition governance in Central Eastern Europe brings the study of the full coalition life-cycle to a region that has undergone tremendous political transformation, but which has not been studied from this perspective. The volume covers Bulgaria, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. It provides information and analyses of the coalition life-cycle, from pre-electoral alliances to coalition formation and portfolio distribution, governing in coalitions, the stages that eventually lead to government termination, and the electoral performance of coalition parties. In Central Eastern Europe, few single-party cabinets form and there have been only a few early elections. The evidence provided shows that coalition partners in the region write formal agreements (coalition agreements) to an extent that is similar to the patterns that we find in Western Europe, but also that they adhere less closely to these contracts. While the research on Western Europe tends to stress that coalition partners emphasize coalition compromise and mutual supervision, there is more evidence of 'ministerial government' by individual ministers and their parties. There are also some systems where coalition governance is heavily dominated by the prime minister. No previous study has covered the full coalition life-cycle in all of the ten countries with as much detail. Systematic information is presented in 10 figures and in more than one hundred tables. Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The series is edited by Emilie van Haute, Professor of Political Science, Universite libre de Bruxelles; Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University; and Susan Scarrow, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Political Science, University of Houston.