Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining
The Democractic Life Cycle in Western Europe
Series: Comparative Politics;
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 17 July 2008
- ISBN 9780198297864
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 234x156x31 mm
- Weight 846 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous tables and figures 0
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Short description:
This analysis of coalition politics in Western Europe is based on the most comprehensive data set ever employed in coalition studies exploring both coalitional and single-party countries and governments.
MoreLong description:
Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining: The Democratic Life Cycle in Western Europe provides a comprehensive analysis of coalition politics in Western Europe over the post-1945 period. It champions a dynamic approach using bargaining and transaction cost theory to understand the 'life cycle' of parliamentary politics. After a review of the literature the theory chapter addresses the roles of bargaining and transaction costs in coalition governance. Eight comparative chapters
address the topics of government formation, cabinet membership, coalition agreements, portfolio allocation, conflict management, cabinet termination and duration, and the electoral consequences of coalition politics. The book is based on the most comprehensive data set ever employed in coalition studies, which
includes both coalitional and single-party countries and governments. Each chapter provides a comparative overview of its topic and state-of-the art statistical analysis. Conceptually and empirically the study argues for an integrated approach to coalition politics, stressing six clusters of explanatory factors: country-specific and temporal circumstances, 'structural attributes', actors' preferences, institutions, the bargaining environment, and 'critical events'. While the importance of
different causal factors varies between the various phases of the parliamentary life cycle, no facet of coalition politics can be understood without reference to several of these factors.
Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary issues in comparative government and politics. The General Editors are David M. Farrell, Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics and Head of School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester and Alfio Mastropaolo, University of Turin. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research.
Table of Contents:
Coalition Theory and Cabinet Governance: An Introduction
Bargaining, Transaction Costs, and Coalition Governance
The Empirical Study of Cabinet Governance
Uncertainty and Complexity in Cabinet Formation
Coalition Agreements and Cabinet Governance
Government Formation and Cabinet Type in Parliamentary Democracies
Portfolio Allocation
Conflict Management in Coalition Government
Cabinet Termination in Western Europe
Institutions, Chance and Choices: The Dynamics of Cabinet Survival in the Parliamentary Democracies of Western Europe (1945-1999)
Coalition Membership and Electoral Performance
Conclusion: Cabinet Governance in Parliamentary Democracies
