Formation of Government Coalition in Westminster Democracies
Towards a Network Approach
Summary
The authors reconstruct the institutional framework and visualise the networks of connections between main actors. They argue that the transition from a stable configuration of a two-party system to a multi-party system that is extraneous for the political tradition of these democracies has significantly influenced the process of government coalition formation and cabinets appointment.
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- Objectives, questions and hypotheses
- Theories and methods of research
- Structure of the book
- Chapter 1: The evolution of Westminster parliamentarism and its influence on the appointment and functioning of a government
- 1 Great Britain, Canada, and New Zealand as examples of Westminster parliamentarism
- 2 Institutional changes in the Westminster model of parliamentarism
- 3 Westminster parliamentarism in action
- Chapter 2: Theory, methodology, and research procedure
- 1 Theoretical frames
- Two main approaches to cabinet coalition research
- New institutionalism and coalition research
- 2 The methodological perspective
- Analytical model
- Some theoretical background of network analysis in political science10
- Research questions and hypotheses
- 3 Research procedure
- Type of networks and network boundaries
- Gathering the data
- Type of collected data
- Sources of data and corpus selection
- Networks’ visualisations
- Chapter 3: Mission incomplete: Networks of the Canadian 2008 Liberal Party – New Democratic Party coalition
- 1 Institutional context
- Government in the Canadian political system
- Government formation and composition
- Evolution of the party system
- Historical patterns of cooperation at the cabinet level
- 2 2008 parliamentary election
- Economic and political situation before the election
- Senior political parties
- Junior political parties
- The position of party leaders
- Election campaign
- Election results
- 3 Coalition bargaining
- Coalition options
- Coalition that failed
- Network of direct contacts between actors
- Newspapers’ networks comparison
- 4 Results
- The role of the governor general
- Social attitudes towards the coalition
- Durability of solutions and effectiveness of the prorogation
- Chapter 4: Winning by losing: Networks of the British 2010 Conservatives – Liberal Democrats coalition
- 1 Institutional context
- Government in the British political system
- Government formation and composition
- Evolution of the party system
- Historical patterns of cooperation at the cabinet level
- 2 2010 parliamentary election
- Economic and political situation before the election
- Senior political parties
- Junior political parties
- The position of party leaders
- Election campaign
- Election results
- 3 Coalition bargaining
- Coalition options
- Coalition talks and media comments
- Network of direct contacts between actors
- Mediated networks between actors
- Time as a negotiating factor
- 4 Results
- Coalition agreement
- Portfolio allocation
- Social attitudes towards the coalition
- Media response and durability of the coalition arrangement
- Chapter 5: In the shadow of ‘Jacindamania’: Networks of the New Zealand 2017 Labour Party – New Zealand First coalition
- 1 Institutional context
- Government in the New Zealand political system13
- Government formation and composition
- Evolution of the party system
- Historical patterns of cooperation at the cabinet level
- 2 2017 parliamentary election
- Economic and political situation before the election
- Senior political parties
- Junior political parties
- The position of party leaders
- Election campaign
- Election results
- 3 Coalition bargaining
- Coalition options
- Coalition talks and media comments
- Network of direct contacts between actors
- Mediated networks between actors
- Time as a negotiating factor
- 4 Results
- Coalition agreement
- Portfolio allocation
- Social attitudes towards the coalition
- Media response and durability of the coalition arrangement
- Conclusions
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Index of Names
- Series Page
Andrzej Antoszewski / Przemysław Żukiewicz /
Mateusz Zieliński / Katarzyna Domagała
Formation of Government
Coalition in Westminster
Democracies
Towards a Network Approach
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ISSN 2199-028X
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DOI 10.3726/b16473
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About the author
The Authors
Andrzej Antoszewski is a professor of political science at the University of Wrocław. His research centres on the fields of comparative politics, parties and parties systems, and theories of democracy.
Przemysław Żukiewicz is a professor of comparative politics at the University of Wrocław, executive committee member of the Polish Political Science Association, CEO & co-founder of the Social Networks Hub foundation.
Mateusz Zielin´ski is an assistant professor at the University of Wrocław. In his works, he tries to popularise network studies in political science. He is also interested in new theories of political representation.
Katarzyna Domagała is a PhD candidate at the University of Wrocław. In her research, she focuses on the application of social network analysis in political science. She is interested in Westminster systems’ and Balkan studies.
About the book
Andrzej Antoszewski / Przemysław Żukiewicz /
Mateusz Zieliński / Katarzyna Domagała
Formation of Government Coalition
in Westminster Democracies
The theoretical goal of the research presented in this book was to include elements of social network analysis into the classical neo-institutional theories of the government coalition formation process. The empirical goal was to verify the benefits and accuracy of this modified analytical model in the analysis of three deviant government coalition formation cases: in Canada (2008), Great Britain (2010) and New Zealand (2017).
The authors reconstruct the institutional framework and visualise the networks of connections between main actors. They argue that the transition from a stable configuration of a two-party system to a multi-party system that is extraneous for the political tradition of these democracies has significantly influenced the process of government coalition formation and cabinets appointment.
This eBook can be cited
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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the people who helped us with this book and the institution which supported our research. Specifically, we would like to thank all the academics and politicians who gave us their time and agreed to be interviewed during our research stays in Canada, New Zealand, and Great Britain.
We would like to also thank Robert Wiszniowski, Dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences, and Robert Alberski, Head of the Institute of Political Science at the University of Wrocław. We are grateful to Magdalena Czeladyn for her support, patience, and attention to administrative details of our research project. Finally, we also wish to thank the Polish National Science Centre for its financial support.
Contents
Objectives, questions and hypotheses
Theories and methods of research
Andrzej Antoszewski
1 Great Britain, Canada, and New Zealand as examples of Westminster parliamentarism
2 Institutional changes in the Westminster model of parliamentarism
3 Westminster parliamentarism in action
Przemysław Żukiewicz, Mateusz Zieliński, Katarzyna Domagała
Chapter 2: Theory, methodology, and research procedure
Two main approaches to cabinet coalition research
New institutionalism and coalition research
2 The methodological perspective
Some theoretical background of network analysis in political science
Research questions and hypotheses
Type of networks and network boundaries
Sources of data and corpus selection
Katarzyna Domagała
Government in the Canadian political system
Government formation and composition
Historical patterns of cooperation at the cabinet level
Economic and political situation before the election
Network of direct contacts between actors
Newspapers’ networks comparison
The role of the governor general
Social attitudes towards the coalition
Durability of solutions and effectiveness of the prorogation
Mateusz Zieliński
Government in the British political system
Government formation and composition
Historical patterns of cooperation at the cabinet level
Details
- Pages
- 278
- Year
- 2020
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631809914
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631809921
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9783631809938
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631802878
- DOI
- 10.3726/b16473
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2020 (March)
- Keywords
- Network analysis Canada Great Britain New Zealand Coalition research
- Published
- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2020. 278 pp., 19 fig. b/w, 23 tables.
