Government Formation in Central and Eastern Europe

Download or read book Government Formation in Central and Eastern Europe written by Dorothea Keudel-Kaiser and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formation of governments without a majority in parliament is a counterintuitive, albeit empirically relevant, phenomenon: minority governments make up about one-third of all governments in Europe. The author offers an analysis of the conditions leading to the formation of minority governments in Central and Eastern Europe and provides the reader with a detailed overview of the processes underlying the formation of governments from the early 1990s up to 2010.