Opposition Party Behavior and Minority Government Support
Challenges, Strategies and Trade-Offs
1st Edition
Published on 6. December 2021
310 pages
978-3-7489-2853-9 (ISBN)
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Oppositionsparteien in Minderheitsregierungen sind für Regierungsstabilität mitverantwortlich ohne jedoch ihre Rechenschaftspflicht gegenüber dem Elektorat vernachlässigen zu können. Ein Dilemma das, wie diese Arbeit zeigt, jedoch viele elektorale wie auch Policy-Vorteile für Oppositionsparteien bedeutet. Die Analyse des Oppositionsverhalten im schwedischen Riksdag (1991-2018) beleuchtet die Rationalität von Minderheitsregierungen aus Oppositionsperspektive: politischen Einfluss erhalten ohne das eigene Parteiprofil zu gefährden. Die Autorin forscht zu oppositionellem Verhalten in schwedischen Minderheitsregierungen mit Hilfe von quantitativen und qualitativen Methoden.
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Content
- Cover
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Explaining opposition party behavior and minority government support - a literature review
- 2.1 Literature on opposition behavior - a general review
- 2.2 The dilemma of opposition parties under minority governments
- 2.3 Theoretical expectations on opposition behavior and minority government support
- 2.3.1 Theoretical expectations in hypothesis block 1: Expectations about opposition party support regarding closeness to the minority government
- 2.3.2 Theoretical expectations in hypothesis block 2: Expectations about opposition party support on important issues
- 2.3.3 Theoretical expectations in hypothesis block 3: Expectations about strategic timing in opposition party support
- 2.3.4 Theoretical expectations in hypothesis block 4: Expectations about opposition party support regarding minority government size
- 2.3.5 Policy, Office, Votes: Assumptions on opposition party goals under minority government formation
- 2.3.5.1 Office-seeking opposition parties under minority government formation
- 2.3.5.2 Policy-seeking opposition parties under minority government formation
- 2.3.5.3 Votes-seeking opposition parties under minority government formation
- 2.3.5.4 Policy, Office, Votes: Gains and Trade-Offs
- 2.4 Expectations on opposition party behavior and minority government support - a brief summary
- 3 Data and method
- 3.1 Case selection: The Swedish political system
- 3.2 Investigation period
- 3.3 Mixed-methods-design
- 3.3.1 Quantitative method design
- 3.3.1.1 Data for quantitative analysis
- 3.3.1.2 Quantitative measures
- 3.3.1.2.1 Dependent variable: Minority government support by an opposition party
- 3.3.1.2.2 Independent variables: Hypothesis block 1
- 3.3.1.2.3 Independent variables: Hypothesis block 2
- 3.3.1.2.4 Independent variables: Hypothesis block 3
- 3.3.1.2.5 Independent variables: Hypothesis block 4
- 3.3.1.2.6 Control variables
- 3.3.1.3 Quantitative method
- 3.3.2 Qualitative method design
- 3.3.2.1 Data and method for qualitative analysis
- 3.3.2.2 Qualitative measures
- 4 Opposition party distinctiveness and minority government support - Patterns from quantitative analysis
- 4.1 Minority government support in parliamentary votes
- 4.2 Descriptive statistics of opposition party behavior
- 4.2.1 Descriptive statistics of hypothesis block 1: Closeness
- 4.2.2 Descriptive statistics of hypothesis block 2: Issue saliency
- 4.2.3 Descriptive statistics of hypothesis block 3: Timing
- 4.2.4 Descriptive statistics of hypothesis block 4: Minority government factors
- 4.3 Explaining opposition party behavior and minority government support: a quantitative analysis
- 4.3.1 Quantitative analysis of hypothesis block 1: Closeness
- 4.3.2 Quantitative analysis of hypothesis block 2: Issue saliency
- 4.3.3 Quantitative analysis of hypothesis block 3: Timing
- 4.3.4 Quantitative analysis of hypothesis block 4: Minority government factors
- 4.4 Robustness tests of the results of the quantitative analysis
- 4.4.1 Robustness tests of hypothesis block 1: Closeness
- 4.4.2 Robustness tests of hypothesis block 2: Issue saliency
- 4.4.3 Robustness tests of hypothesis block 3: Timing
- 4.4.4 Robustness tests of hypothesis block 4: Minority government factors
- 4.5 Opposition party strategies - between opposing and supporting minority governments. Summarizing results from quantitative analysis
- 5 Opposition party distinctiveness and minority government support - Patterns from qualitative analysis
- 5.1 Qualitative analysis of hypothesis block 1: Closeness
- 5.2 Qualitative analysis of hypothesis block 2: Issue saliency
- 5.3 Qualitative analysis of hypothesis block 3: Timing
- 5.4 Qualitative analysis of hypothesis block 4: Minority government factors
- 5.5 Hypotheses tests of the qualitative analysis: A brief summary
- 6 Opposition party distinctiveness and minority government support - Results from and limitations of a mixed-methods approach
- 7 Opposition party goals and conditions for cross-parliamentary cooperation
- 7.1 Cooperation types for majority formation
- 7.1.1 Cooperation type 1: Support agreement
- 7.1.2 Cooperation type 2: Issue agreement
- 7.1.3 Cooperation type 3: Short connections
- 7.1.4 Cooperation type 4: Information exchange
- 7.1.5 Organizing parliamentary majorities under minority government: Summary of four types of cooperation
- 7.2 Opposition party types and strategies
- 7.2.1 Office-seeking opposition party type (1): The largest opposition party
- 7.2.2 Votes-seeking opposition party type: Smaller opposition parties that primarily strive to expand their electorate
- 7.2.3 Office-seeking opposition party type (2): Smaller opposition parties that strive for government offices
- 7.2.4 Policy-seeking opposition party type: Opposition parties willing to broadly cooperate
- 7.2.5 Changes in opposition parties' goals: a summary of the four types of opposition parties
- 7.3 Support agreement, cooperation, or conflict? A policy field analysis
- 7.4 Opposition party goals - between opposing and cooperating with a minority government. Summarizing results from qualitative analysis
- 8 Brief summary and discussion of results: Prospects and limitations
- 9 Conclusion: Opposition party behavior and minority government support
- 10 List of references
- 11 Annex
- 11.1 Regression tables of further model specifications
- 11.2 Regression tables of robustness analyses
- 11.2.1 Regression tables of Jackknife analyses
- 11.2.2 Regression tables of alternative and additional measures
- 11.3 Handbook of the Dataset 'Parliamentary voting behavior under minority governments in the Swedish Riksdag 1991-2018'
