This book provides the first cross-regional study of an
increasingly important form of politics: coalitional
presidentialism. Drawing on original research of minority
presidents in the democratising and hybrid regimes of Armenia,
Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, and Ukraine,
it seeks to understand how presidents who lack single party
legislative majorities build and manage cross-party support in
legislative assemblies. It develops a framework for analysing this
phenomenon, and blends data from MP surveys, detailed case studies,
and wider legislative and political contexts, to analyse
systematically the tools that presidents deploy to manage their
coalitions. The authors focus on five key legislative, cabinet,
partisan, budget, and informal (exchange of favours) tools that are
utilised by minority presidents. They contend that these constitute
the 'toolbox' for coalition management, and argue that minority
presidents will act with imperfect or incomplete information to
deploy tools that provide the highest return of political support
with the lowest expenditure of political capital. In developing
this analysis, the book assembles a set of concepts, definitions,
indicators, analytical frameworks, and propositions that establish
the main parameters of coalitional presidentialism. In this way,
Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective provides
crucial insights into this mode of governance. Oxford Studies in
Democratization is a series for scholars and students of
comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate
on the comparative study of the democratization process that
accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The
geographical focus of the series is primarily Latin America, the
Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in
Africa and Asia. The series editor is Laurence Whitehead, Senior
Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
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