Inter-Party Conflict Management in Coalition Governments: Analyzing the Role of Coalition Agreements in Belgium, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands
political negotiation
Italien
conflict management
party system
Federal Republic of Germany
Systems of governments & states
party in power
coalition
Political science (General)
Koalitionspolitik
Belgium
Germany
Niederlande
Netherlands
Belgien
coalition policy
formation of a government
05 social sciences
pre-electoral coalition agreements
16. Peace & justice
Koalition
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
0506 political science
Staatsformen und Regierungssysteme
Italy
Political System, Constitution, Government
Konfliktregelung
coalition governments
Parteiensystem
Regierungspartei
ddc:321
Regierungsbildung
politische Verhandlung
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
JA1-92
post-electoral coalition agreements
DOI:
10.17645/pag.v1i2.94
Publication Date:
2015-02-18T16:16:49Z
AUTHORS (2)
ABSTRACT
In this article, we focus on manifest interparty conflict over policy issues and the role of coalition agreements in solving these conflicts. We present empirical findings on the characteristics of coalition agreements including deals over policy controversy and on inter-party conflict occurring during the lifetime of governments in Germany, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze the ways in which parties in government were or were not constrained by written deals over disputed issues. Coalition agreements from all four countries include specific policy deals, one third of which are precisely defined. These policy deals concern both consensual and controversial issues. Our central finding is that, in the case of intra-party conflict, parties almost always fall back on the initial policy deals when these exist. As such, policy statements of the coalition agreement facilitate decision making in each of the countries studied.
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