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Coalition agreements as control devices : coalition governance in Western and Eastern Europe /

This book explores why political parties negotiate lengthy coalition contracts, and argues that these agreements are important control devices that allow coalition parties to keep their partners in line. The authors draw on a large dataset of 229 coalition agreements negotiated in 24 Western and Eas...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Klüver, Heike (Author), Bäck, Hanna (Author), Krauss, Svenja (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Series:Comparative politics (Oxford, England)
Subjects:
Coalition governments > Europe.
Europe > Politics and government.
Europe > Politique et gouvernement.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Political Parties.
Political Process.
Coalition governments
Politics and government
Europe
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Series page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • List of abbreviations
  • Part I Coalition agreements and governing in coalitions
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Puzzle and question
  • 1.2 State of the art
  • 1.2.1 The literature on coalition governments in parliamentary democracies
  • 1.2.2 The literature on coalition governance (``control'') mechanisms
  • 1.2.3 The literature on coalition agreements
  • 1.2.4 The research gap
  • 1.3 A comparative analysis of coalition agreements
  • 1.3.1 Theoretical argument
  • 1.3.2 Empirical strategy
  • 1.3.3 Overview of the book
  • 2 Explaining the use of coalition agreements as control devices
  • 2.1 Central actors
  • 2.2 Delegation in coalition governments
  • 2.3 Control instruments
  • 2.4 Coalition agreements
  • 2.5 Costs and benefits associated with negotiating coalition agreements
  • 2.6 Factors explaining the use of coalition agreements as control devices
  • 2.6.1 Preference configuration
  • 2.6.2 Ministerial portfolio allocation
  • 2.7 Conclusion
  • Part II The COALITIONAGREE Dataset
  • 3 A new dataset mapping the content of coalition agreements
  • 3.1 Data collection
  • 3.2 Data sample
  • 3.3 Measuring the content of coalition agreements
  • 3.3.1 Unitization
  • 3.3.2 Coding
  • 3.4 Application example
  • 3.5 Conclusion
  • 4 The content of coalition agreements
  • 4.1 The length of coalition agreements
  • 4.2 Policies, payoff allocation, or procedural rules?
  • 4.3 Which policy issues are covered in coalition agreements?
  • 4.4 Policy positions settled in coalition agreements
  • 4.5 Conclusion
  • Part III Why do governments negotiate coalition agreements?
  • 5 Preference configuration and coalition agreements
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Previous research
  • 5.3 Theoretical argument
  • 5.4 Research design and data
  • 5.4.1 Dataset.
  • 5.4.2 Operationalization of the dependent and main independent variables
  • 5.4.3 Operationalization of control variables
  • 5.5 Empirical analysis
  • 5.6 Robustness checks
  • 5.7 Conclusion
  • 6 Coalition agreements and ministerial portfolios
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Previous research
  • 6.3 Theoretical expectations
  • 6.4 Research design and data
  • 6.4.1 Empirical strategy
  • 6.4.2 The dependent variable: Measuring policy payoffs in coalition governments
  • 6.4.3 Independent variables
  • 6.5 Empirical analysis
  • 6.6 Robustness checks
  • 6.7 Conclusion
  • 7 Do coalition agreements work?
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Previous research
  • 7.3 The influence of coalition agreements on stability
  • 7.4 Research design
  • 7.4.1 Measuring the dependent variable
  • 7.4.2 Operationalization of explanatory and control variables
  • 7.4.3 Dataset
  • 7.5 Conflict in coalition agreements
  • 7.6 Data analysis
  • 7.7 Robustness check
  • 7.8 Conclusion
  • Part IV Coalition agreements, multiparty governments, and democracy
  • 8 Conclusions and implications
  • 8.1 The main findings
  • 8.1.1 What do coalition agreements in Europe look like?
  • 8.1.2 Why do parties negotiate coalition agreements?
  • 8.1.3 What is the impact of coalition agreements?
  • 8.2 Implications for understanding policy-making
  • 8.3 Implications for political representation
  • 8.4 Potential avenues for future research
  • 8.4.1 Alternative analyses of the impact of coalition agreements
  • 8.4.2 Modeling coalition negotiations as a two-dimensional process
  • References
  • Appendix 1 Overview of coalition cabinets
  • Appendix 2 Codebook
  • Appendix 3 Coding instructions
  • Index.