Minority Governments Revisited

Abstract

This panel jointly analyze the causes, nature and consequences of minority governments in national parliamentary systems (-where the party or parties represented at cabinet do not between them hold a majority of seats in the legislature). Focusing on governments since 1989, it analyzes minority governments in distinct institutional and partisan contexts, and seeks to provide new insights regarding the effects of institutional and party system characteristics, the tools that governments employ to govern or facilitate cooperation, and how analytically distinct stages of governance affect one another (e.g. formation and functioning; functioning and performance).

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