Field Why Minority Governments Work

Multilevel Territorial Politics in Spain
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-55980-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 261 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series

This book is an examination of minority government performance in conjunction with the territorial distribution of state power and the territorial interests of political parties. It examines political institutions, and the reconcilability of party goals and the contingent bargaining circumstances, in multilevel and territorial perspectives.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Field, Bonnie N.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction

Part I The Theoretical and Contextual Terrain

2 How Well Minority Parliamentary Governments Govern

3 Accounting for Governing Capacity

4 Multilevel, Multidimensional Politics in Spain

Part II Why Spain's Minority Governments Work

5 Governing Capacity and Partisan Bargaining Circumstances

6 How Minority Governments Govern

7 National Parliamentary Institutions and Government Strength

8 The Reconcilability of Party Goals in the Multilevel State

9 Office for Policy in the National Arena or Peix al cove

10 Multilevel Exchange of Office or Pactos de estado

11 Party Competition in the Regional Arena and National-Level Alliances

Part III Conclusions

12 Minority Government Performance and Comparative Lessons

Über Autor(innen)

Bonnie N. Field (PhD Political Science) is Associate Professor in the Global Studies Department at Bentley University, USA. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, USA, Visiting Researcher at the University of Barcelona, Spain, Faculty Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, USA, and Fulbright Senior Researcher in Spain. Her publications focus on political parties and institutions in Europe and Latin America.