Description
This insightful book brings the study of coalitions and coalition governance in Central and Eastern European democracies up to date, with an analytical focus framed by difficult economic and social periods, such as the end of the economic crisis and the Coronavirus pandemic.
The volume posits insights from a plethora of experts on party politics and coalition studies from their respective countries, with chapters on Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Embellished with illustrative tables and extensive datasets throughout, each chapter maps the developments of party system change, covering the coalition life cycle from the early 1990s until the end of 2021, and explores whether there has been transformation of the coalition, governance and dissolutions patterns due to heightened pressures.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of coalition politics, representative democracy, governance, political parties, European Union politics, East and Central European politics, and comparative politics.
Table of Contents
1. Coalitions in Times of Crisis
Torbjörn Bergman, Gabriella Ilonszki and Johan Hellström
2. Concepts and Measurements
Andrea Fumarola and Jonas Lindahl
3. Fragility of Coalition Governance in Bulgaria
Dobrinka Kostova
4. Regularity and Instability: Coalition Governments in Czechia 2008-2022
Petra Guasti and Zdenka Mansfeldova
5. Estonia: The Breakdown of the Exclusionary Logic in Coalition Formation
Tõnis Saarts and Georg Sootla
6. Hungary: Party Alliances and Personal Coalitions
Éva Ványi and Gabriella Ilonszki
7. Latvia: Populist Wind of Change
Jānis Ikstens
8. Lithuania: Ministerial Government and the EU Factor
Irmina Matonyte and Ieva Gajauskaite
9. Poland: Resilience to the External Crisis, Permanent Coalition Patterns, and Weakening of the Position of the Prime Minister
Marzena Cichosz and Joanna Kozierska
10. Live Fast, Die Young: Romanian Coalitions in Time of Crisis
Veronica Anghel
11. Slovakia: Gradual Settlement of Rules in an Unstable Environment
Branislav Dolný
12. Slovenia: Newcomers as Prime Ministers. A New Mode of Coalition Governance?
Alenka Krašovec and Tomaž Krpič
13. New Patterns of Coalition Politics in Central and Eastern Europe?
Torbjörn Bergman, Gabriella Ilonszki and Johan Hellström
