{"id":1,"date":"2020-01-01T17:31:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T16:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/repdem.org\/?p=1"},"modified":"2024-01-09T11:37:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T10:37:39","slug":"coalition-governance-central-eastern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/repdem.org\/index.php\/2020\/01\/01\/coalition-governance-central-eastern-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"New data release on coalitions and coalition governance in Central and Eastern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Coalition government among different political parties is the way most European democracies are governed. Traditionally, the study of coalition politics has been focused on Western Europe. Coalition governance in Central Eastern Europe brings the study of the full coalition life-cycle to a region that has undergone tremendous political transformation, but which has not been studied from this perspective. The volume covers Bulgaria, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. It provides information and analyses of the coalition life-cycle, from pre-electoral alliances to coalition formation and portfolio distribution, governing in coalitions, the stages that eventually lead to government termination, and the electoral performance of coalition parties. In Central Eastern Europe, few single-party cabinets form and there have been only a few early elections. The evidence provided shows that coalition partners in the region write formal agreements (coalition agreements) to an extent that is similar to the patterns that we find in Western Europe, but also that they adhere less closely to these contracts. While the research on Western Europe tends to stress that coalition partners emphasize coalition compromise and mutual supervision, there is more evidence of \u2018ministerial government\u2019 by individual ministers and their parties. There are also some systems where coalition governance is heavily dominated by the prime minister. No previous study has covered the full coalition life-cycle in all of the ten countries with as much detail. Systematic information is presented in 10 figures and in more than one hundred tables in the book Coalition <\/em>Governance in Central Eastern Europe<\/em><\/a> and the data used in the book is available here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE DATA ARE AVAILABLE IN BOTH EXCEL AND STATA FORMATS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications using this data should acknowledge in writing that the information comes from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bergman, Torbj\u00f6rn, Gabriella Ilonszki and Wolfgang C. M\u00fcller, eds. (2019).\u00a0Coalition Governance in Central Eastern Europe<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Data made available through\u00a0http:\/\/www.repdem.org<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you discover any errors, please contact Torbj\u00f6rn Bergman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coalition government among different political parties is the way most European democracies are governed. Traditionally, the study of coalition politics has been focused on Western Europe. Coalition governance in Central Eastern Europe brings the study of the full coalition life-cycle to a region that has undergone tremendous political transformation, but which has not been studied from this perspective. The volume covers Bulgaria, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-release"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t