Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining

The Democractic Life Cycle in Western Europe

Edited by Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Torbjörn Bergman

Comparative Politics

Most comprehensive analysis of coalition politics to date
New approach to the conceptual understanding of coalition politics

Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining

The Democractic Life Cycle in Western Europe

Edited by Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Torbjörn Bergman

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-war period. It champions a dynamic approach in which the various stages in the life of coalitions influence each other. After a review of the literature a theory chapter addresses the roles of bargaining and transaction costs in coalition governance. Eight comparative chapters address the topics of government formation (government type, formation duration), coalition agreements, portfolio allocation, conflict management, cabinet termination and duration, and the electoral consequences of coalition government. The book is based on the most comprehensive data set ever employed in coalition studies that includes both coalitional and single-party countries and governments. Each chapter first provides a comparative overview of the phenomenon under study and then moves on to state-of-the art statistical analysis. Conceptually and in the statistical analysis the study argues for an integrated approach stressing the relevance of countries, time, 'structural attributes', actors' preferences, institutions, the coalition's bargaining environment, and 'critical events'. Indeed, sufficient explanations of most phenomena under study require independent variables from several of these categories.

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Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining

The Democractic Life Cycle in Western Europe

Edited by Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Torbjörn Bergman

Comparative Politics

1:Coalition Theory and Cabinet Governance: An Introduction, Wolfgang C. Müller, Torbjörn Bergman, and Kaare Strøm
2:Bargaining, Transaction Costs, and Coalition Governance, Arthur Lupia and Kaare Strøm
3:The Empirical Study of Cabinet Governance, Torbjörn Bergman, Elisabeth R. Gerber, Scott Kastner, and Benjamin Nyblade
4:Uncertainty and Complexity in Cabinet Formation, Lieven De Winter and Patrick Dumont
5:Coalition Agreements and Cabinet Governance, Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm
6:Government Formation and Cabinet Type in Parliamentary Democracies, Paul Mitchell and Benjamin Nyblade
7:Portfolio Allocation, Luca Verzichelli
8:Conflict Management in Coalition Government, Rudy B. Andeweg and Arco Timmerman
9:Cabinet Termination in Western Europe, Erik Damgaard
10:Institutions, Chance and Choices: The Dynamics of Cabinet Survival in the Parliamentary Democracies of Western Europe (1945-1999), Thomas Saalfeld
11:Coalition Membership and Electoral Performance, Hanne Marthe Narud and Henry Valen
12:Conclusion: Cabinet Governance in Parliamentary Democracies, Kaare Strøm, Torbjörn Bergman, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Benjamin Nyblade

Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining

The Democractic Life Cycle in Western Europe

Edited by Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Torbjörn Bergman

Comparative Politics

Author Information

Edited by Kaare Strøm, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, Wolfgang C. Müller, Professor of Political Science, University of Mannheim, and Torbjörn Bergman, Professor of Political Science, University of Umea

Contributors:

Rudy B. Andeweg is professor of political science at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands.
Torbjörn Bergman is is professor of political science at Umeå University, Sweden.
Erik Damgaard is professor of political science at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Lieven De Winter is professor of political science at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Patrick Dumont is researcher at the Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Elisabeth R. Gerber professor of political science at the University of Michigan, USA.
Scott L. Kastner assistant professor of political science at the University of Maryland, USA.
Arthur Lupia is professor of political science at the University of Michigan, USA.
Paul Mitchell is lecturer in political science at LSE, Great Britain.
Wolfgang C. Müller is professor of political science at the University of Mannheim, Germany.
Hanne Marthe Narud is is professor of political science at the University Oslo, Norway.
Benjamin Nyblade is is assistant professor of political science at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Thomas Saalfeld is reader in political science at the University of Kent at Canterbury, Great Britain.
Kaare Strøm is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, USA
Arco Timmermans is lecturer in political science at the University of Twente, the Netherlands.
Luca Verzichelli is is professor of political science at the University of Siena, Italy.