Coalition Governments in Western Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-829761-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 618 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 933 g

Coalition Governments in Western Europe is the most comprehensive empirical analysis to date of coalition politics. Based on a large cross-national data collection, covering the entire post-war period from 1945 to 1999, it is the first systematic study of the institutions of governance and conflict resolution in coalition governments. The book is also an unparalleled source of information on cabinet formation, membership, termination, and electoral performance of coalition parties. The volume also analyses the institutional frameworks in which coalition politics takes place in the individual countries and discusses which constraints for government formation, coalition governance, and coalition termination result from them. The information has been collected in standardized form by first rate country experts, and is presented in the form of standard tables.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strom, Kaare

Muller, Wolfgang C.

M. Ller, Wolfgang C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm: Coalition Governance in Western Europe: An Introduction

- 2: Thomas Saalfeld: Germany: Stable Parties, Chancellor Democracy and the Art of Informal Settlement

- 3: Wolfgang C. Müller: Austria: Tight Coalitions and Stable Government

- 4: Paul Mitchell: Ireland: From Single-Party to Coalition Rule

- 5: Hanne Marthe Narud and Kaare Strøm: Norway: A Fragile Coalitional Order

- 6: Torbjörn Bergman: Sweden: When Minority Cabinets Are the Rule and Majority Coalitions the Exception

- 7: Erik Damgaard: Denmark: The Life and Death of Government Coalitions

- 8: Jaakko Nousiainen: Finland: The Consolidation of Parliamentary Governance

- 9: Lieven De Winter, Arco Timmermans, and Patrick Dumont: Belgium: On Government Agreements, Evangelists, Followers and Heretics

- 10: Rudy B. Andeweg and Arco Timmermans: The Netherlands: Still the Politics of Accommodation?

- 11: Patrick Dumont and Lieven De Winter: Luxembourg: Stable Coalitions in a Pivotal Party System

- 12: Luca Verzichelli and Maurizio Cotta: Italy: From "Constrained" Coalitions to Alternating Governments?

- 13: Jean-Louis Thiébault: France: Forming and Maintaining Government Coalitions in the Fifth Republic

- 14: José M. Magone: Portugal: The Rationale of Democratic Regime-Building

- 15: Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm: Conclusion: Coalition Governance in Western Europe

Über Autor(innen)

Wolfgang C. Müller is a Professor at the Department of Government, University of Vienna

; Kaare Strøm is a Professor at the University of California, San Diego