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 'ministerial government' 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.
Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and
students of political science that deals with contemporary
government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are
characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong
methodological rigour. The series is published in association with
the European Consortium for Political Research. For more
information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The series is edited by Emilie
van Haute, Professor of Political Science, Universite libre de
Bruxelles; Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, Director of the Center for the
Study of Democracy, Leuphana University; and Susan Scarrow, John
and Rebecca Moores Professor of Political Science, University of
Houston.
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