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Coalition Politics and Cabinet Decision Making

Author : Juliet Kaarbo
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472028340
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Coalition Politics and Cabinet Decision Making written by Juliet Kaarbo and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, coalition cabinets make policy decisions critical to international politics. Juliet Kaarbo examines the dynamics of these multiparty cabinets in parliamentary democracies in order to assess both the quality of coalition decision making and the degree to which coalitions tend to favor peaceful or military solutions. Are coalition cabinets so riddled by conflict that they cannot make foreign policy effectively, or do the multiple voices represented in the cabinet create more legitimate and imaginative responses to the international system? Do political and institutional constraints inherent to coalition cabinets lead to nonaggressive policies? Or do institutional and political forces precipitate more belligerent behavior? Employing theory from security studies and political psychology as well as a combination of quantitative cross-national analyses and twelve qualitative comparative case studies of foreign policy made by coalition cabinets in Japan, the Netherlands, and Turkey, Kaarbo identifies the factors that generate highly aggressive policies, inconsistency, and other policy outcomes. Her findings have implications not merely for foreign policy but for all types of decision making and policy-making by coalition governments.

Coalition Government and Party Mandate

Author : Catherine Moury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136189092
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Coalition Government and Party Mandate written by Catherine Moury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which kind of decisions are passed by Cabinet in coalition governments? What motivates ministerial action? How much leeway do coalition parties give their governmental representatives? This book focuses on a comparative study of ministerial behaviour in Germany, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands. It discredits the assumption that ministers are ‘policy dictators’ in their spheres of competence, and demonstrates that ministers are consistently and extensively constrained when deciding on policies. The first book in a new series at the forefront of research on social and political elites, this is an invaluable insight into the capacity and power of coalition government across Europe. Looking at policy formation through coalition agreements and the effectiveness of such agreements, Coalition Government and Party Mandate will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, governance and European politics.

Governing Together

Author : Jean Blondel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349229369
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Governing Together written by Jean Blondel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parliamentary cabinets are supposed to be collective bodies, taking their decisions on the basis of agreements among all the members. Yet much has been made of the growth of the role of prime ministers, not just in Britain, but all over western Europe. Much has also been made of the trend towards letting cabinet decisions be taken by committees or even by individual ministers. It is indeed true that twenty men and women, meeting only a few hours a week, cannot take all the decisions of the State. These are the issues which this study examines, on the basis of the replies of over 400 cabinet ministers across western Europe. The result is the first truly empirical analysis in a subject on which what has been known so far has tended to be speculation.

The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives

Author : Rudy B. Andeweg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198809298
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives by : Rudy B. Andeweg

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives written by Rudy B. Andeweg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political executives have been at the centre of public and scholarly attention long before the inception of modern political science. In the contemporary world, political executives have come to dominate the political stage in many democratic and autocratic regimes. The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives marks the definitive reference work in this field. Edited and written by a team of word-class scholars, it combines substantive stocktaking with setting new agendas for the next generation of political executive research.

Strategic Decisionmaking in Cabinet Government

Author : Nick Manning
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Decisionmaking in Cabinet Government written by Nick Manning and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes an approach to assessing how the institution of cabinet responds to the threats that government faces and provides some practical strategies for examining the institutional government for supporting cabinet decisionmaking. The threats are: 1) The threat that the legislature will significantly amend the government's program as expressed in the budget proposals made by the executive. 2) The threat of dismissal between elections. 3) The risk that the executive will be seen by the public as having departed form a previous tradition of cabinet government and judged poorly as a result. The report shows that cabinet government is a rational response to these risks and sets out the institutional arrangements that make cabinet a binding device. It takes a purely empirical view to determine what constitutes cabinets. Using some new data and illustrative quantitative measures, the report shows how to make comparisons across countries. It recognizes the significance of the budget process for collective decisionmaking, but moves beyond the simplistic assumption that tradeoffs in cabinet government can only be made by reallocating the budget. Politicians trade in many commodities, including prestige and public acclaim. In sum, the report supports practical approaches for assessing the strength of cabinet decisionmaking arrangements and for identifying practical steps to improve the prospect that decisions will be collectively binding.

Coalition Agreements as Control Devices

Author : Heike Klüver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192899937
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Coalition Agreements as Control Devices written by Heike Klüver and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many coalition cabinets negotiate lengthy coalition contracts outlining the agenda for the time in office. Not only does negotiating these agreements take up time and resources, but compromises have to be made, which may result in cabinet conflicts and electoral costs. This book explores why political parties negotiate such agreements, and argues that coalition agreements are important control devices that allow coalition parties to keep their partners in line. The authors show that their use varies with the preference configuration in cabinet and the allocation of ministerial portfolios. First, they posit that parties will only negotiate policy issues in a coalition agreement when they disagree on these issues and when they are important to all partners. Second, since controlling a ministry provides parties with important information and policy-making advantages, parties use agreements to constrain their partners particularly when they control the ministry in charge of a policy area. Finally, they argue that coalition agreements only work as effective control devices if coalition parties settle controversial issues in these contracts. The COALITIONAGREE Dataset is used to evaluate the expectations set out in the book; the dataset maps the content of 229 coalition agreements that were negotiated by 189 parties between 1945 and 2015 in 24 Western and Eastern European countries. The results show that coalition parties systematically use agreements to control their partners when policy issues are divisive and salient and when they are confronted with a hostile minister. These agreements only effectively contain conflicts, however, when parties negotiate a compromise on precisely the issues that divide them. 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 characterized 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 Nicole Bolleyer, Chair of Comparative Political Science, Geschwister Scholl Institut, LMU Munich and Jonathan Slapin, Professor of Political Institutions and European Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich.

The Cycle of Coalition

Author : David Fortunato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108890253
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Cycle of Coalition written by David Fortunato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does coalition governance shape voters' perceptions of government parties and how does this, in turn, influence party behaviors? Analyzing cross-national panel surveys, election results, experiments, legislative amendments, media reports, and parliamentary speeches, Fortunato finds that coalition compromise can damage parties' reputations for competence as well as their policy brands in the eyes of voters. This incentivizes cabinet partners to take stands against one another throughout the legislative process in order to protect themselves from potential electoral losses. The Cycle of Coalition has broad implications for our understanding of electoral outcomes, partisan choices in campaigns, government formation, and the policy-making process, voters' behaviors at the ballot box, and the overall effectiveness of governance.

Coalition Governments in Western Europe

Author : Wolfgang C. Müller
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198297611
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (976 download)

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Book Synopsis Coalition Governments in Western Europe by : Wolfgang C. Müller

Download or read book Coalition Governments in Western Europe written by Wolfgang C. Müller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Multiparty Government

Author : Michael Laver
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Multiparty Government written by Michael Laver and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Comparing Cabinets

Author : Patrick Weller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192583514
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Comparing Cabinets written by Patrick Weller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is cabinet government so resilient? Despite many obituaries, why does it continue to be the vehicle for governing across most parliamentary systems? Comparing Cabinets answers these questions by examining the structure and performance of cabinet government in five democracies: the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Australia. The book is organised around the dilemmas that cabinet governments must solve: how to develop the formal rules and practices that can bring predictability and consistency to decision making; how to balance good policy with good politics; how to ensure cohesion between the factions and parties that constitute the cabinet while allowing levels of self-interest to be advanced; how leaders can balance persuasion and command; and how to maintain support through accountability at the same time as being able to make unpopular decisions. All these dilemmas are continuing challenges to cabinet government, never solvable, and constantly reappearing in different forms. Comparing distinct parliamentary systems reveals how traditions, beliefs, and practices shape the answers. There is no single definition of cabinet government, but rather arenas and shared practices that provide some cohesion. Such a comparative approach allows greater insight into the process of cabinet government that cannot be achieved in the study of any single political system, and an understanding of the pressures on each system by appreciating the options that are elsewhere accepted as common beliefs.

Coalitions in Parliamentary Government

Author : L. Dodd
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400868076
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Coalitions in Parliamentary Government written by L. Dodd and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Cabinets in Western Europe

Author : Jean Blondel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349196169
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Cabinets in Western Europe written by Jean Blondel and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-11-25 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A presentation of the structure and workings of the national cabinets in Western European countries today, based on a common framework which enables the reader to compare their origins, structure, composition and activities. Emphasis is placed on the leadership and on the character of coalitions.

Making and Breaking Governments

Author : Michael Laver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521432456
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Making and Breaking Governments written by Michael Laver and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making and Breaking Governments offers a theoretical argument about how parliamentary parties form governments, deriving from the political and social context of such government formation its generic sequential process. Based on their policy preferences, and their beliefs about what policies will be forthcoming from different conceivable governments, parties behave strategically in the game in which government portfolios are allocated. The authors construct a mathematical model of allocation of ministerial portfolios, formulated as a noncooperative game, and derive equilibria. They also derive a number of empirical hypotheses about outcomes of this game, which they then test with data drawn from most of the postwar European parliamentary democracies. The book concludes with a number of observations about departmentalistic tendencies and centripetal forces in parliamentary regimes.

Coalition Governance in Western Europe

Author : Torbjörn Bergman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019263898X
Total Pages : 775 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Book Synopsis Coalition Governance in Western Europe by : Torbjörn Bergman

Download or read book Coalition Governance in Western Europe written by Torbjörn Bergman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coalition government is the most frequent form of government in Western Europe, but we have relatively little systematic knowledge about how that form of government has developed in recent decades. 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 (or in the sitting parliament), portfolio distribution among the coalition parties, governing and policy-making when parties work together in office, and the stages that eventually lead to government termination. A particular emphasis is on the study of how coalitions govern together even when they have different agendas. Do individual ministers decide, or the Prime minister or is the outcome a result of a process of coalition compromise? The volume covers 16 West European countries and introduces the case of Croatia, focusing mainly on governments formed during the past two decades. 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 Susan Scarrow, Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of Houston, and Jonathan Slapin, Professor of Political Institutions and European Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich.

Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Government

Author : Michael Laver
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521438377
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Government written by Michael Laver and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1994-09-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close examination of the constitutional relationship between legislature and executive in parliamentary regimes.

High Politics in the Low Countries

Author : Arco I. Timmermans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351775863
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book High Politics in the Low Countries written by Arco I. Timmermans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003.This informative text deals with the emergence of coalition agreements, their contents, the problem of enforcement and with the question of whether or not the functions are performed in practice. It explores the idea that policy bargaining in government formation is not just an isolated process, but that it is a real chance for parties to deal with substantive and controversial issues at an early stage. The coalition agreements in which these issues are incorporated have become important in most multiparty systems, but they have received little attention in political science research. This book argues that more systematic attention for these institutional variables is highly useful in coalition research because it helps to explain processes and outcome in coalition politics.

Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective

Author : Paul Chaisty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192549243
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Book Synopsis Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective by : Paul Chaisty

Download or read book Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective written by Paul Chaisty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first cross-regional study of an increasingly important form of politics: coalitional presidentialism. Drawing on original research of minority presidents in the democratising and hybrid regimes of Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, and Ukraine, it seeks to understand how presidents who lack single party legislative majorities build and manage cross-party support in legislative assemblies. It develops a framework for analysing this phenomenon, and blends data from MP surveys, detailed case studies, and wider legislative and political contexts, to analyse systematically the tools that presidents deploy to manage their coalitions. The authors focus on five key legislative, cabinet, partisan, budget, and informal (exchange of favours) tools that are utilised by minority presidents. They contend that these constitute the 'toolbox' for coalition management, and argue that minority presidents will act with imperfect or incomplete information to deploy tools that provide the highest return of political support with the lowest expenditure of political capital. In developing this analysis, the book assembles a set of concepts, definitions, indicators, analytical frameworks, and propositions that establish the main parameters of coalitional presidentialism. In this way, Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective provides crucial insights into this mode of governance. Oxford Studies in Democratization is a series for scholars and students of comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on the comparative study of the democratization process that accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series is primarily Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia. The series editor is Laurence Whitehead, Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.