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Coalition Government as a Reflection of a Nation’s Politics and Society

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Coalition Government as a Reflection of a Nation’s Politics and Society book

A Comparative Study of Parliamentary Parties and Cabinets in 12 Countries

Coalition Government as a Reflection of a Nation’s Politics and Society

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Coalition Government as a Reflection of a Nation’s Politics and Society book

A Comparative Study of Parliamentary Parties and Cabinets in 12 Countries
Edited ByMatt Evans
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2019
eBook Published 29 October 2019
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429422379
Pages 306 pages
eBook ISBN 9780429422379
SubjectsPolitics & International Relations
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Evans, M. (Ed.). (2020). Coalition Government as a Reflection of a Nation’s Politics and Society. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429422379

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 country’s parliament and illustrates how they represent the country’s competing interests, social divisions, and public policy debates. Coalition and opposition parties are also shown to reflect each country’s: 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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|20 pages

Coalitions through a comparative politics lens

Parties and political culture
WithMatt Evans

part Part I|61 pages

Typical coalition governments, with weakening pillar parties

chapter 2|18 pages

Germany

Between bloc competition and grand coalitions
WithEric Linhart

chapter 3|19 pages

The dynamics of coalition governments in the Netherlands

WithArco Timmermans, Gerard Breeman

chapter 4|22 pages

Government coalitions as a reflection of national politics

The complex case of Belgium
WithLieven De Winter

part Part II|38 pages

Coalition governments with uncoalitionable minority parties

chapter 5|19 pages

Israel’s coalition government

Secular liberals, religious nationalists, and ultra-orthodox parties
WithMatt Evans

chapter 6|17 pages

Short-lived coalitions in Latvia

Ethnic tension, political fragmentation, and office-seeking
WithJānis Ikstens

part Part III|61 pages

Minority governments and negative parliamentarism

chapter 7|20 pages

Sweden

Minority government as the norm
WithJonas Lindahl, Johan Hellström, Hanna Bäck

chapter 8|17 pages

Denmark

The politics of compromise and minority government governance
WithChristoffer Florczak, Robert Klemmensen

chapter 9|22 pages

Norway

Towards a more inclusive parliamentary regime
WithKaare W. Strøm

part Part IV|57 pages

Third-wave countries, economic crisis, and political changes

chapter 10|17 pages

Portugal

The prevalence of right-wing coalitions
WithJorge M. Fernandes

chapter 11|18 pages

Spain’s coalitional dynamics

The relevance of multilevel politics
WithJosep M. Reniu

chapter 12|20 pages

Greece’s coalition governments

Power sharing in a majoritarian democracy
WithEmmanouil Tsatsanis, Eftichia Teperoglou

part Part V|20 pages

Anti-establishment party leads government

chapter 13|18 pages

Party system and coalition governments in post-WWII Italy

WithGiuseppe Ieraci

part |20 pages

Conclusion

chapter 14|18 pages

Coalitions and political parties as a reflection of societal changes and cultural rifts in 12 parliamentary democracies

WithMatt Evans
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