Coalition Governance in Central Eastern Europe
Edited by Torbjörn Bergman, Gabriella Ilonszki, and Wolfgang C. Müller
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Edited by Torbjörn Bergman, Professor of Political Science, Umeå University, Sweden, Gabriella Ilonszki, Professor of Political Science, Corvinus University, Budapest, and Wolfgang C. Müller, Professor of Democratic Governance, Department of Government, University of Vienna, Austria
Torbjörn Bergman is Professor of Political Science at Umeå University, Sweden. His books on representative democracy, government formation, and political parties include Political Parties in Multi-Level Polities: The Nordic Countries Compared (with N. Aylott and M. Blomgren, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), The Madisonian Turn - Political Parties and Parliamentary Democracy in Nordic Europe (with K. Strøm, University of Michigan Press, 2011), Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining: The Democratic Life Cycle in Western Europe (with K. Strøm and W.C. Müller, Oxford University Press, 2008) and Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies (with K. Strøm and W.C. Müller, Oxford University Press, 2003). He has also published in journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of Legislative Studies, Party Politics, Government & Opposition, and Scandinavian Political Studies.
Gabriella Ilonszki is Professor of Political Science at Corvinus University of Budapest. Her English language publications include three edited volumes: Opposition Parties in European Legislatures: Conflict or Consensus (with Elisabetta De Giorgi, Routledge, 2018), Post-Communist Parliaments: Change and Stability in the Second Decade (with D.M. Olson, Routledge, 2012), and Perceptions of the European Union in New Member States: A Comparative Perspective (Routledge, 2010). She has published articles in journals such as the Journal of Legislative Studies, East European Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics. She has also authored several chapters in volumes on representation, parliamentary government and political elite, gender, areas that constitute her main research interest.
Wolfgang C. Müller is Professor of Democratic Governance at the Department of Government, University of Vienna, Austria. His research interests are government coalitions, political institutions, political parties, political elites, and political economy. He is Director of the Austrian National Election Study (AUTNES), Director of the Vienna Institute for Electoral Research (VieCER), and co-editor of West European Politics. His English-language books include Policy, Office, or Votes? How Political Parties in Western Europe Make Hard Decisions (with K. Strøm, Cambridge University Press, 1999), Coalition Governments in Western Europe (with K. Strøm, Oxford University Press, 2000), Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies (with K. Strøm, and T. Bergman, Oxford University).
Contributors:
Andrzej Antoszewski is a professor of political science at the Department of Political and Administrative Systems, Institute of Political Science, University of Wrocław.
Anders Backlund is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at S:odert:orn University, Sweden.
Ilse Balcere is a researcher at the Advanced Social and Political Research Institute at the University of Latvia.
Torbj:orn Bergman is a professor of political science at Ume·a University, Sweden.
Alejandro Ecker is a postdoc fellow at the MZES, Mannheim, Germany.
Janis Ikstens is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Latvia, Latvia.
Gabriella Ilonszki is a professor of political science at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.
Joanna Kozierska is an assistant professor at the Department of Political and Administrative Systems, Institute of Political Science, University of Wrocław.
Alexander Karvai is post-doc in political science and working in commercial market research in Slovakia.
Rumyana Kolarova is an associate professor of political science at St. Kl. Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria.
Alenka Krasovec is a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana University, Slovenia.
Tomaz Krpic is an editor and senior administrative officer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana University, Slovenia.
Tomas Lacina is a junior researcher at the Department of Political Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Zdenka Mansfeldova is a senior researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Irmina Matonyte is a professor of political science at the General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania (Vilnius), Lithuania.
Thomas M. Meyer is an associate professor in political science at the Department of Government, University of Vienna, Austria.
Wolfgang C. Muller is Professor of Democratic Governance at the Department of Government, University of Vienna, Austria.
Vello Pettai is Professor of Comparative Politics at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia.
Laurentiu Stefan is a senior researcher at the Center for Public Policies at the West University of Timi?oara, Romania and a regular visiting professor to the University of Bucharest and the University of Cluj-Napoca.
Maria Spirova is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics and International Relations in the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Sona Szomolanyi is a professor of political science at Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia.
