Coalition Government as a Reflection of a Nations Politics and Society
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 countrys parliament and illustrates how they represent the countrys competing interests, social divisions, and public policy debates. Coalition and opposition parties are also shown to reflect each countrys: 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.
Matt Evans is Associate Professor of political science at Pennsylvania State University in Altoona, USA.
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A Comparative Study of Parliamentary Parties and Cabinets in 12 Countries
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Contents
MATT EVANS
PART I
Typical coalition governments, with weakening pillar parties
ERIC LINHART
ARCO TIMMERMANS AND GERARD BREEMAN
LIEVEN DE WINTER
PART II
Coalition governments with uncoalitionable minority parties
MATT EVANS
JNIS IKSTENS
PART III
Minority governments and negative parliamentarism
JONAS LINDAHL, JOHAN HELLSTRM, AND HANNA BCK
CHRISTOFFER FLORCZAK AND ROBERT KLEMMENSEN
KAARE W. STRM
PART IV
Third-wave countries, economic crisis, and political changes
JORGE M. FERNANDES
JOSEP M. RENIU
EMMANOUIL TSATSANIS AND EFTICHIA TEPEROGLOU
PART V
Anti-establishment party leads government
GIUSEPPE IERACI
MATT EVANS
Guide
Hanna Bck is a professor of political science at Lund University in Sweden. Her research mainly focuses on political parties, government formation, and portfolio allocation in parliamentary democracies. She has published extensively in highly ranked journals, including Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Parliamentary Affairs, Public Choice , and Party Politics .
Gerard Breeman is Assistant Professor of public administration at Leiden University in the Netherlands. His main research interests are policy agenda setting and the governance of sustainability, as well as the analysis of wicked policy problems. He is co-director of the Dutch agenda-setting team and founder of the ECPR research network on food policy and governance. He teaches on the role of media, policy implementation, and qualitative research design. He has published on a wide variety of policy issues, including Common Agricultural Policy, environmental policies in the EU, global sustainability issues, and GMO policies.
Lieven De Winter is Senior Professor at the Universit Catholique de Louvain. He completed his Ph.D. at the European University Institute on The Belgian Legislator. His research interests include (the comparative analysis of) coalition formation; party and cabinet government; parliament; political parties; territorial identities and community conflicts; and electoral behaviour at the regional, national, and European elections. He has (co-)directed the Belgian national electoral surveys (PIOP, 19912010) and several elite surveys amongst ministers, MPs, party leaders, and the three Belgian Candidate Surveys (2007, 2010, 2014). He has published about 200 articles in various scientific journals, mostly in English. His relevant books of the last decade include Puzzles of Government Formation. Coalition Theory and Deviant Cases (with R. Andeweg and P. Dumont), Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science, London, 2011; The Politics of Belgium (with M. Brans and W. Swenden (eds.), London, Routledge, 2009; Elections: le reflux? Comportements et attitudes lors des lections en Belgique (with A-P. Frognier and P. Baudewyns), Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2007; Autonomist Parties in Europe: Identity Politics and the Revival of the Territorial Cleavage (with M. Gomez-Reino and P. Lynch), Barcelona: ICPS, volume I & II, 2006.