A second line of research delves into how minority governments govern. This includes whether they govern with formal agreements with other parties in parliament, and through their alliance-building strategies within parliament.
In particular, how does minority status affect the duration of the government and its ability to accomplish its policy goals and generate public support? While the research on minority governments varies, in general it has moved from viewing minority governments as peculiar and potentially problematic toward seeing them as rational cabinet solutions capable of effective governance.
When no single political party secures a majority of seats in a parliamentary election, three outcomes are possible: a failed attempt to form a government possibly leading to a new general election , a minority government, or a majority coalition government. While much research on minority governments is embedded within the larger government formation literature focused more on coalition formation , influential research on minority governments has attempted to answer three fundamental, and ultimately interrelated, questions: Why do minority governments form?
How do minority governments work? How do minority governments perform relative to majority governments? Book-length studies that seek to extend or deepen the analysis of the formation of minority governments include Bergman on the Swedish case , Nikolenyi on the Indian case , and Keudel-Kaiser on eight central and eastern Europe countries.
Most governments spend longer governing than being formed or dissolved. Surprisingly then, research long focused on why minority governments form and not on how they work and perform once in office. Today, however, there is a larger body of research addressing how minority governments work and how well they perform. An important contribution in this regard is Field , a book-length study of why minority governments work in Spain. It offers a framework for explaining government performance that includes political institutions, partisan bargaining circumstances, and party goals.
This study explores the goals of parties with regard to government formation, and how these goals interact with constitutional structures and political culture to shape minority government formation in Sweden.
Field, Bonnie N. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, This book explores how and how well minority governments work. Territorial politics and the presence of regional parties in the national parliament interact with political institutions and party goals to allow otherwise competitive parties to cooperate during minority governments.
It also provides a review of the literature on minority government performance. Keudel-Kaiser, Dorothea. Leverkusen, Germany: Verlag Barbara Budrich, The book studies the formation of minority governments through case studies of eight central and eastern European countries from the s up to It identifies party system features—and specifically the bifurcation of the party system—as the most important factor shaping the pattern of minority government formation in the region.
Nikolenyi, Csaba. London and New York: Routledge, It explains these minority coalitions by employing the social choice theory of government formation, and provides insights into the duration of minority governments.
Minority Government and Majority Rule. This book argues that minority governments can be viewed as rational outcomes under certain circumstances; namely, where parties can influence policy from outside government reducing the incentive to enter government and where parties face an electoral cost for joining a coalition again reducing the incentive to enter government.
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Characteristic is that they do not control the majority of seats in parliament. At first glance minority governments seem to be a counterintuitive phenomenon. Why should a party decide to stay in opposition and to forgo the benefits of government participation, but support a government that has no majority? Government formation processes in the CEE countries are a rich and up to now widely unexplored area of scientific research. Research on minority governments as well as on government formation in general has so far been mainly focussing on Western European countries.
Are the influencing factors that are valid for the formation of minority governments in Western Europe such as institutional facts e. The aim of this paper is to illustrate the combination of conditions which lead to the formation of minority governments in CEE.
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