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Coalition Government, Subnational Style: Multiparty Politics in Europe's Regional Parliaments (Parliaments & Legislatures S.) - Hardcover
Comparing three different European democracies - Germany, France and Belgium - the text provides an account of the ways politicians often spend months negotiating the composition of new governments following elections in which no single party wins a clear majority.
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A pioneering cross-national study, Coalition Government, Subnational Style examines parliamentary democracy in the richly diverse area of subnational legislative assemblies. Comparing three different European democracies--Germany, France, and Belgium--William M. Downs provides a powerful account of the ways politicians and political parties spend days, weeks, and often months negotiating the composition of new governments following elections in which no single party wins a clear majority.
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A pioneering cross-national study, Coalition Government, Subnational Style examines parliamentary democracy in the richly diverse area of subnational legislative assemblies. Comparing three different European democracies--Germany, France, and Belgium--William M. Downs provides a powerful account of the ways politicians and political parties spend days, weeks, and often months negotiating the composition of new governments following elections in which no single party wins a clear majority.
Downs argues that postelection alliance building is a window onto many of the political processes fundamental to representative democracy: the interpretations of electoral verdicts; the compromises of campaign pledges; the trade-offs between policy and power; the temporary cooperation between long-term adversaries; the collective decisionmaking; and the blurring of lines of accountability through collective responsibility.
The study reports findings from an unprecedented collection of information, including cross-national survey responses, interviews with political elites, and three decades of postelection studies of coalition building in the German state parliaments, the French regional assemblies, and the Belgian provincial councils and regional parliaments. Coalition Government, Subnational Style conclusively demonstrates that the struggles for government status at subnational levels are profoundly important to both parties and voters and that the outcomes of these struggles can result in governments of varying political complexions. His findings will question key assumptions of democratic theory and raise important concerns about individual and organizational behavior in changing institutional and electoral environments, ultimately allowing for a deeper understanding of representation, power, and cooperation outside the more familiar arena of national parliamentary politics.
William M. Downs is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. Government Studies and a Contributor to Political Leaders of Contemporary Western Europe (David Wilsford, Ed.)And Political Parties of Europe, 1980s to 1990s
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- PublisherOhio State University Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0814207472
- ISBN 13 9780814207475
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages336
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